History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterwards American Archives appears appointed arms army Arnold Assembly Bill Boston Britain British troops Bunker's Hill Burgoyne Burke Canada Captain CHAP chief Clinton Colonel colonies command common countrymen Crown declared deemed defence despatched detachment Duke Duke of Grafton Earl enemy England English ensued Fayette feeling fire force Franklin French friends Gage Government Governor honour hope House ington Island Israel Putnam Jared Sparks King King's Lake Champlain land late less letter LIII Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Cornwallis Lord George Germaine Lord North LVII LVIII Majesty March Massachusetts measure ment Militia Ministers months never officers Parliament party passed peace period Petition Philadelphia province rank Reed Resolution retreat Samuel Adams says sent ships side Silas Deane soldiers Sparks Sparks's speech spirit thousand tion town vote voyage Washington whole words writes York York Island
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 31 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 72 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Seite 74 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Seite 458 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 51 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — " Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Seite 33 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Seite 220 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
Seite 306 - That God and nature put into our hands !' I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature ; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. — What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife...
Seite 307 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Seite 51 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...