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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... tish Com- ed a fitter instrument for the mander in America . purpose than Lord Loudoun . r military ; always hurried , and ttle progress in the dispatch of nd threaten , but mutable , in- t and action ; negligent of even 2.
... tish Com- ed a fitter instrument for the mander in America . purpose than Lord Loudoun . r military ; always hurried , and ttle progress in the dispatch of nd threaten , but mutable , in- t and action ; negligent of even 2.
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... Lord Loudoun . Devoid of genius , either civil or military ; always hurried , and hurrying others , yet making little progress in the dispatch of business ; hasty to project and threaten , but mutable , in- decisive , and languid in ...
... Lord Loudoun . Devoid of genius , either civil or military ; always hurried , and hurrying others , yet making little progress in the dispatch of business ; hasty to project and threaten , but mutable , in- decisive , and languid in ...
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... Lord Loudoun's preliminary remarks ; and the levies which he 1 " He is like St. George upon a sign - post , " said a Philadelphian to Dr. Franklin , always on horseback but never advancing . " When Franklin pressed for reimburse- ment ...
... Lord Loudoun's preliminary remarks ; and the levies which he 1 " He is like St. George upon a sign - post , " said a Philadelphian to Dr. Franklin , always on horseback but never advancing . " When Franklin pressed for reimburse- ment ...
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... Lord Loudoun himself , that this force should be applied to the reduction of Ticonderoga and Crown - Point ; but he was induced to depart from this plan , if indeed he ever entertained it , by the tidings of an additional armament ...
... Lord Loudoun himself , that this force should be applied to the reduction of Ticonderoga and Crown - Point ; but he was induced to depart from this plan , if indeed he ever entertained it , by the tidings of an additional armament ...
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... Lord Loudoun had withdrawn so large a portion of the British force from New York to Ha- lifax , advanced with an army of nine thousand men , and laid siege to Fort William - Henry , which was garrisoned by nearly three thousand troops ...
... Lord Loudoun had withdrawn so large a portion of the British force from New York to Ha- lifax , advanced with an army of nine thousand men , and laid siege to Fort William - Henry , which was garrisoned by nearly three thousand troops ...
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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...