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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... object was incompatible with his adherence to the instructions which had been com- municated to him by the proprietaries . As a substitute for popular measures , he had been directed by his constituents to cultivate the friendship , and ...
... object was incompatible with his adherence to the instructions which had been com- municated to him by the proprietaries . As a substitute for popular measures , he had been directed by his constituents to cultivate the friendship , and ...
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... objects of their malevo- lence ; Franklin determined to make one decisive effort to disabuse the British public ; and applied himself to the com- position of a treatise , which was not published till the begin- ning of the year 1759 ...
... objects of their malevo- lence ; Franklin determined to make one decisive effort to disabuse the British public ; and applied himself to the com- position of a treatise , which was not published till the begin- ning of the year 1759 ...
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... object of Franklin's mission from America , resulted in in ་ ་ 1 Mr. Clarkson , in his Life of William Penn , has taken some notice of this produc- tion of Franklin ; on which occasion he has been betrayed into a very strange mis- take ...
... object of Franklin's mission from America , resulted in in ་ ་ 1 Mr. Clarkson , in his Life of William Penn , has taken some notice of this produc- tion of Franklin ; on which occasion he has been betrayed into a very strange mis- take ...
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... object to which the most ardent wishes of the British colonists were directed : but they quickly perceived that the 1 Proud . Smollett . Franklin's Memoirs . V. 1758 . gratification of this hope , if ever 26 THE HISTORY OF.
... object to which the most ardent wishes of the British colonists were directed : but they quickly perceived that the 1 Proud . Smollett . Franklin's Memoirs . V. 1758 . gratification of this hope , if ever 26 THE HISTORY OF.
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... object was to be pursued , was , that three powerful armies should enter Canada by different routes , and attack , at nearly the same time , all the strong holds of the French in that country . At the head of one division of the army ...
... object was to be pursued , was , that three powerful armies should enter Canada by different routes , and attack , at nearly the same time , all the strong holds of the French in that country . At the head of one division of the army ...
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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...