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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... more of the great world , and the means of obtaining , and motives for giving places and employments , my wonder is diminished . " Franklin's Memoirs . V. 175 demanded , having been speedily raised , hastened 4 THE HISTORY OF.
... more of the great world , and the means of obtaining , and motives for giving places and employments , my wonder is diminished . " Franklin's Memoirs . V. 175 demanded , having been speedily raised , hastened 4 THE HISTORY OF.
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... obtained entire possession of the lakes Champlain and George : and by the destruction of 1758 . Oswego , they acquired the dominion of the other lakes which connect the St. Lawrence with the waters of the Mississippi , The first ...
... obtained entire possession of the lakes Champlain and George : and by the destruction of 1758 . Oswego , they acquired the dominion of the other lakes which connect the St. Lawrence with the waters of the Mississippi , The first ...
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... obtain a change of the provincial government from proprietary to royal , and that the failure of this design laid the foundation of his ( Franklin's ) animosity to Great Britain , which was so conspicuous afterwards . " This is an ...
... obtain a change of the provincial government from proprietary to royal , and that the failure of this design laid the foundation of his ( Franklin's ) animosity to Great Britain , which was so conspicuous afterwards . " This is an ...
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... obtain an interview with Pitt , proved unsuccessful , and he was obliged to content himself with the complimentary intel- ligence , that this minister considered him a respectable person , and with the more solid advantage of ...
... obtain an interview with Pitt , proved unsuccessful , and he was obliged to content himself with the complimentary intel- ligence , that this minister considered him a respectable person , and with the more solid advantage of ...
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... obtained from the captive showed Forbes that his labours were already crowned with success . The approach of the British force , which seems to have been attended with all those pre- VOL . IV . Ꭰ X. 1758 . Du Ques- ne . BOOK cautions ...
... obtained from the captive showed Forbes that his labours were already crowned with success . The approach of the British force , which seems to have been attended with all those pre- VOL . IV . Ꭰ X. 1758 . Du Ques- ne . BOOK cautions ...
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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...