The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of the British Colonies Till Their Revolt and Declaration of Independence, Band 4Smith, Elder and Company, 1836 - 462 Seiten |
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... appeared that he was totally unacquainted with the strength of the place which he proposed to subdue ; and his attack upon it was first suspended by the necessity of gaining this preliminary information , and ultimately relinquished ...
... appeared that he was totally unacquainted with the strength of the place which he proposed to subdue ; and his attack upon it was first suspended by the necessity of gaining this preliminary information , and ultimately relinquished ...
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... appeared under the title of A Historical Review of the Constitution of Pennsylvania . This admirable work , which combines all the felicities of Franklin's genius , and is , perhaps , the most masterly production of his pen , appearing ...
... appeared under the title of A Historical Review of the Constitution of Pennsylvania . This admirable work , which combines all the felicities of Franklin's genius , and is , perhaps , the most masterly production of his pen , appearing ...
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... appearance , could have seemed to him probably to threaten , or even materially to facilitate the dismemberment of the British empire ; and Franklin , we may almost with equal certainty declare , was at this time , and long after ...
... appearance , could have seemed to him probably to threaten , or even materially to facilitate the dismemberment of the British empire ; and Franklin , we may almost with equal certainty declare , was at this time , and long after ...
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... appeared almost insurmountable . He had lately reinforced his troops with five battalions embodied from the flower of the colonial population : he had trained to arms all the neighbouring inhabitants , and collected around him a ...
... appeared almost insurmountable . He had lately reinforced his troops with five battalions embodied from the flower of the colonial population : he had trained to arms all the neighbouring inhabitants , and collected around him a ...
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... so firmly , to all appearance , on the banks of the Ohio , that the emigrants from Virginia , Maryland , and Pennsylvania , render of Quebec . X. BOOK were very soon after enabled securely to resume NORTH AMERICA . 57.
... so firmly , to all appearance , on the banks of the Ohio , that the emigrants from Virginia , Maryland , and Pennsylvania , render of Quebec . X. BOOK were very soon after enabled securely to resume NORTH AMERICA . 57.
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Seite 368 - 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.
Seite 201 - 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...
Seite 230 - 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.
Seite 387 - 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.
Seite 190 - They planted by your care! No! your oppressions planted them in America. — They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and...
Seite 190 - 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.
Seite 368 - 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.
Seite 454 - 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.
Seite 191 - 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...
Seite 362 - 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...