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. |
Knygos viduje
Rezultatai 1–5 iš 99
3 psl.
... colonists , tish Com- they could hardly have selected a fitter instrument for the mander in achievement of this sinister purpose than Lord Loudoun . Devoid of genius , either civil or military ; always hurried , and hurrying others ...
... colonists , tish Com- they could hardly have selected a fitter instrument for the mander in achievement of this sinister purpose than Lord Loudoun . Devoid of genius , either civil or military ; always hurried , and hurrying others ...
4 psl.
... colonists of America.1 January . In the commencement of this year he repaired to Boston , where he was met by a council composed of the governors of Nova Scotia and of the states of New England . To this council he addressed a speech in ...
... colonists of America.1 January . In the commencement of this year he repaired to Boston , where he was met by a council composed of the governors of Nova Scotia and of the states of New England . To this council he addressed a speech in ...
8 psl.
... colonists were struck with the most painful surprise and alarm at the intelligence of this disaster . Many persons were induced to question the fidelity of General Webb , whose conduct , indeed , though not justly obnoxious to this ...
... colonists were struck with the most painful surprise and alarm at the intelligence of this disaster . Many persons were induced to question the fidelity of General Webb , whose conduct , indeed , though not justly obnoxious to this ...
11 psl.
... colonists than humiliating to the arms of Britain , whose troops , driven from their outposts , and defeated by the enemy , were now exhibited in the act of a retrograde move- ment against the people whom they had been sent to protect ...
... colonists than humiliating to the arms of Britain , whose troops , driven from their outposts , and defeated by the enemy , were now exhibited in the act of a retrograde move- ment against the people whom they had been sent to protect ...
15 psl.
... colonists demanded some change in the rela- tions that had hitherto subsisted between them and the parent state ; and the opposite views on this subject which each party , more or less justly , imputed to the other , served to ...
... colonists demanded some change in the rela- tions that had hitherto subsisted between them and the parent state ; and the opposite views on this subject which each party , more or less justly , imputed to the other , served to ...
Kiti leidimai - Peržiūrėti viską
The History of the United States of North America, from the ..., 4 tomas James Grahame Visos knygos peržiūra - 1836 |
The History of the United States of North America– From the ..., 4 tomas James Grahame Visos knygos peržiūra - 1845 |
The History of the United States of North America, from the ..., 4 tomas James Grahame Visos knygos peržiūra - 1836 |
Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
act of parliament advantage America American liberty appointed army attack authority BOOK Boston Britain British empire British government British parliament British prerogative British troops cabinet Canada Carolina CHAP cherished colonies colonists command commencement communicated conduct congress conquest considerable controversy countrymen court crown danger declared defence despatched duty effect empire enemy England English exertions farther favour force Fort Prince George France Franklin French garrison genius governor Holmes honour hope House House of Commons Hutchinson Indians inhabitants interest king Lord Lord Loudoun measures ment ministers occasion officers parent partizans party patriotic Pennsylvania persons petition Pitt political politicians popular possessed present principles proceedings produced promote province provincial assemblies provoked purpose quakers Quebec regard remarked rendered repeal resistance resolution royal savage sentiments settlements Sir William Johnson South Carolina spirit Stamp Act success taxation taxes tion tribes violent Virginia York
Populiarios ištraukos
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...