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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... expected to stimulate the Americans to a higher strain of exertion , by depreciating their past services , and exalting , above their gallant and successful warriors , the defeated troops and disgraced commanders of England . Nor ...
... expected to stimulate the Americans to a higher strain of exertion , by depreciating their past services , and exalting , above their gallant and successful warriors , the defeated troops and disgraced commanders of England . Nor ...
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... expected by the states of New England , and , perhaps it had been the original purpose of Lord Loudoun himself , that this force should be applied to the reduction of Ticonderoga and Crown - Point ; but he was induced to depart from ...
... expected by the states of New England , and , perhaps it had been the original purpose of Lord Loudoun himself , that this force should be applied to the reduction of Ticonderoga and Crown - Point ; but he was induced to depart from ...
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... expected to entertain different opinions . From the extent and precision of political information , for which Pitt was so highly renowned , it is impossible to sup- pose that he was unacquainted with the doubts which had been openly ...
... expected to entertain different opinions . From the extent and precision of political information , for which Pitt was so highly renowned , it is impossible to sup- pose that he was unacquainted with the doubts which had been openly ...
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... expected , resolved on an immediate assault of the place . He ordered his engineer to reconnoitre the position and en- trenchments of the enemy ; and , trusting to a hasty survey and rash report upon their weakness , embraced the ...
... expected , resolved on an immediate assault of the place . He ordered his engineer to reconnoitre the position and en- trenchments of the enemy ; and , trusting to a hasty survey and rash report upon their weakness , embraced the ...
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... expected to have obtained from Fort Frontignac , judged their post untenable , Nov. 24. and , abandoning it on the evening before the arrival of Forbes ' army , made their escape in boats down the Ohio . The Nov. 25. British now took ...
... expected to have obtained from Fort Frontignac , judged their post untenable , Nov. 24. and , abandoning it on the evening before the arrival of Forbes ' army , made their escape in boats down the Ohio . The Nov. 25. British now took ...
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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...