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 |
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... letter of the Massachusetts Assembly . Governor Bernard's misrepre- sentations . Royal Censure of the Massachusetts Assembly . Riot at Boston . Firmness and Dissolution of the Massachusetts Assembly . Convention in Massachusetts ...
... letter of the Massachusetts Assembly . Governor Bernard's misrepre- sentations . Royal Censure of the Massachusetts Assembly . Riot at Boston . Firmness and Dissolution of the Massachusetts Assembly . Convention in Massachusetts ...
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... letters . Dismissal of Franklin from the British service . Taunting language in England . The Shakers . European emigrations to America . Page 294 ― - CHAPTER IV . The Boston Port - Bill - and other British Measures - their Effects in ...
... letters . Dismissal of Franklin from the British service . Taunting language in England . The Shakers . European emigrations to America . Page 294 ― - CHAPTER IV . The Boston Port - Bill - and other British Measures - their Effects in ...
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... letter advising him to sur- render without delay . Montcalm , on the other hand , who was endowed with a high degree of military genius , pressed the assault on Fort William - Henry with the utmost vigour and skill . He had inspired his ...
... letter advising him to sur- render without delay . Montcalm , on the other hand , who was endowed with a high degree of military genius , pressed the assault on Fort William - Henry with the utmost vigour and skill . He had inspired his ...
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... of the Annual Register rarely ventured to designate the statesmen whose conduct he relates more fully than by the initial letters of their names or titles . : V. 1757 . in question . This proceeding served 10 THE HISTORY OF.
... of the Annual Register rarely ventured to designate the statesmen whose conduct he relates more fully than by the initial letters of their names or titles . : V. 1757 . in question . This proceeding served 10 THE HISTORY OF.
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... letter from Pitt to the provincial governors , acquainting them with the resolution of the British cabinet to send a powerful armament to operate by sea and land against the French in America , and inviting them to raise as numerous ...
... letter from Pitt to the provincial governors , acquainting them with the resolution of the British cabinet to send a powerful armament to operate by sea and land against the French in America , and inviting them to raise as numerous ...
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Seite 370 - 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 232 - 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 389 - 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 192 - They planted by your care! No! your oppressions planted them in America. — They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and...
Seite 192 - 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 370 - 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 233 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Seite 364 - 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...
Seite 456 - I know your sentiments differ from mine on these subjects. You are a thorough government man, which I do not wonder at, nor do I aim at converting you. I only wish you to act uprightly and steadily, avoiding that duplicity which in Hutchinson adds contempt to indignation. If you can promote the prosperity of your people, and leave them happier than you found them, whatever your political principles are, your memory will be honored.
Seite 239 - Mr. Pitt* and Lord Camden were to be the patrons of America, because they were in opposition. Their declaration gave spirit and argument to the colonies ; and while, perhaps» they meant no more than the ruin of a minister, they, in effect, divided one half of the empire from the other.