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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... Massachusetts , produced from this body a remarkable message to the governor , which at a later period attracted a good deal of controversial criticism : very 66 V. 1757 . different meanings being attached to it 12 THE HISTORY OF.
... Massachusetts , produced from this body a remarkable message to the governor , which at a later period attracted a good deal of controversial criticism : very 66 V. 1757 . different meanings being attached to it 12 THE HISTORY OF.
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... produced , and who had long combated with his powerful rhetoric and majestic eloquence the policy of directing the chief military efforts of England to the continent of Europe , was now , in opposition to the wishes of the king , but in ...
... produced , and who had long combated with his powerful rhetoric and majestic eloquence the policy of directing the chief military efforts of England to the continent of Europe , was now , in opposition to the wishes of the king , but in ...
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... produced by in- terested individuals , against the equitable claims of the inha- bitants of a colonial settlement in a distant part of the world . Franklin's ardour , nevertheless , was animated rather than de- pressed by the prospect ...
... produced by in- terested individuals , against the equitable claims of the inha- bitants of a colonial settlement in a distant part of the world . Franklin's ardour , nevertheless , was animated rather than de- pressed by the prospect ...
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... produced as general conviction and sympathy . An indignant concern was awak- ened in the public mind for the inhabitants of a British province , whose efforts to defend themselves against the com- mon enemy , and to co - operate with ...
... produced as general conviction and sympathy . An indignant concern was awak- ened in the public mind for the inhabitants of a British province , whose efforts to defend themselves against the com- mon enemy , and to co - operate with ...
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... produce on the minds of the British colonists towards their own parent state . It was , he declared , his opinion , that the independence of the British colonies , however reasonable or probable , was an event too distant to be ...
... produce on the minds of the British colonists towards their own parent state . It was , he declared , his opinion , that the independence of the British colonies , however reasonable or probable , was an event too distant to be ...
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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...