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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... remarked as having been despatched this year from France for the assistance of Canada . The commander of this force , which consisted of one frigate of thirty guns , two large store ships , and nineteen smaller vessels , having ...
... remarked as having been despatched this year from France for the assistance of Canada . The commander of this force , which consisted of one frigate of thirty guns , two large store ships , and nineteen smaller vessels , having ...
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... remarked by the governor , " the whole world must be sensible of the blessings derived to Great Britain from the loyalty of the colonies in general , and from the efforts of this province in particular : which for more than a century ...
... remarked by the governor , " the whole world must be sensible of the blessings derived to Great Britain from the loyalty of the colonies in general , and from the efforts of this province in particular : which for more than a century ...
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... remarked , 1 consisted of a fixed quantity of tobacco , allotted by law to every clergyman , and contributed by the parish in which he officiated . In the year 1755 , the tobacco crop having proved extremely scanty throughout the ...
... remarked , 1 consisted of a fixed quantity of tobacco , allotted by law to every clergyman , and contributed by the parish in which he officiated . In the year 1755 , the tobacco crop having proved extremely scanty throughout the ...
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... remarked the opinion which had been impressed on the savages , partly by the as- surances of the French , and partly by their own observation and recollection of the course of events , that Britain would never entirely or at least ...
... remarked the opinion which had been impressed on the savages , partly by the as- surances of the French , and partly by their own observation and recollection of the course of events , that Britain would never entirely or at least ...
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... remarking the increased temerity and audacity with which the success of their manoeuvres had latterly in- spired them , Bouquet directed a considerable portion of his troops to perform a movement which would ultimately enable them to ...
... remarking the increased temerity and audacity with which the success of their manoeuvres had latterly in- spired them , Bouquet directed a considerable portion of his troops to perform a movement which would ultimately enable them to ...
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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...