The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of the British Colonies Till Their Revolt and Declaration of Independence, 4 tomasSmith, Elder and Company, 1836 - 462 psl. |
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... English soldiers , and all the recent successes of the French to the misconduct of the American troops or the pro- vincial governments . It is unlikely , notwithstanding the arrogance of his disposition and the narrowness of his capa ...
... English soldiers , and all the recent successes of the French to the misconduct of the American troops or the pro- vincial governments . It is unlikely , notwithstanding the arrogance of his disposition and the narrowness of his capa ...
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... English and partly American , and commanded by a brave English officer , Colonel Monroe . The security of this important post was supposed to be still farther promoted by the proximity of Fort Edward , which was scarcely fourteen miles ...
... English and partly American , and commanded by a brave English officer , Colonel Monroe . The security of this important post was supposed to be still farther promoted by the proximity of Fort Edward , which was scarcely fourteen miles ...
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... English , and who had formed part of the garrison , fared still more miserably . They were seized without scruple by their savage enemies , and perished in lingering and barbarous torture . Of the garri- son of Fort William - Henry ...
... English , and who had formed part of the garrison , fared still more miserably . They were seized without scruple by their savage enemies , and perished in lingering and barbarous torture . Of the garri- son of Fort William - Henry ...
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... English innkeepers refused to entertain the soldiers of certain Hessian regiments which had been transported to England , in consequence of an apprehended invasion from France , -because they conceived that the act of par- liament did ...
... English innkeepers refused to entertain the soldiers of certain Hessian regiments which had been transported to England , in consequence of an apprehended invasion from France , -because they conceived that the act of par- liament did ...
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... English officers , and the conversion of their own fellow - citizens into the disciplined stipendiaries of monarchical authority . Lord Loudoun , however , though perfectly aware that no alteration of circumstances had oc- curred since ...
... English officers , and the conversion of their own fellow - citizens into the disciplined stipendiaries of monarchical authority . Lord Loudoun , however , though perfectly aware that no alteration of circumstances had oc- curred since ...
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368 psl. - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
201 psl. - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
230 psl. - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
387 psl. - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
190 psl. - They planted by your care! No! your oppressions planted them in America. — They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and...
190 psl. - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
368 psl. - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
454 psl. - It will be very agreeable to me; indeed, nothing has ever hurt me so much, and affected me with such keen sensations, as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son ; and not only deserted, but to find him taking up arms against me in a cause wherein my good fame, fortune and life, were all at stake.
191 psl. - God knows I do not at this time speak from motives of party heat ; what I deliver are the genuine sentiments of my heart. However superior to me in general. knowledge and experience the respectable body of this house may be...
362 psl. - America, by beginning to allay ferments and soften animosities there, and above all for preventing in the mean time any sudden and fatal catastrophe at Boston, now suffering under the daily irritation of an army before their eyes...