The History of the United States of North America: From the Plantation of the British Colonies Till Their Assumption of National Independence, Band 4Lea and Blanchard, 1845 |
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... Assembly . - Governor Bernard's Misrepresentations . - Royal Censure of the Mas- sachusetts Assembly . - Riot at Boston . — Firmness — and Dissolution of the Massachusetts Assembly . - Convention in Massachusetts . - Oc- cupation of ...
... Assembly . - Governor Bernard's Misrepresentations . - Royal Censure of the Mas- sachusetts Assembly . - Riot at Boston . — Firmness — and Dissolution of the Massachusetts Assembly . - Convention in Massachusetts . - Oc- cupation of ...
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... assembly of the province . The officers , thereupon , complained to Lord Loudoun , who signified in peremptory terms his commands that the justices should grant the accom- modation required from them ; declaring , that , in his opinion ...
... assembly of the province . The officers , thereupon , complained to Lord Loudoun , who signified in peremptory terms his commands that the justices should grant the accom- modation required from them ; declaring , that , in his opinion ...
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... assembly passed a law [ December 6 ] , of which the provisions were somewhat , though by no means entirely , similar to the act of parliament in question . Their conduct served rather to incense than to appease the British commander ...
... assembly passed a law [ December 6 ] , of which the provisions were somewhat , though by no means entirely , similar to the act of parliament in question . Their conduct served rather to incense than to appease the British commander ...
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... assembly of Massachusetts , undaunted by this emergency , voted an address to the governor , which breathed the genuine spirit of their forefathers . They again affirmed that the act of parliament to which the controversy had reference ...
... assembly of Massachusetts , undaunted by this emergency , voted an address to the governor , which breathed the genuine spirit of their forefathers . They again affirmed that the act of parliament to which the controversy had reference ...
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... assembly was forwarded to him by Governor Pownall , who farther ten- dered his own personal assurance that the colonists had hon- estly endeavoured to give to the recruiting service every facility which was compatible with the peculiar ...
... assembly was forwarded to him by Governor Pownall , who farther ten- dered his own personal assurance that the colonists had hon- estly endeavoured to give to the recruiting service every facility which was compatible with the peculiar ...
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Seite 393 - 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 209 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Seite 239 - 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 501 - 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 500 - midst the roar Of cataracts, where nursing Nature smiled On infant Washington ? Has Earth no more Such seeds within her breast, or Europe no such shore ? XCVII.
Seite 384 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.
Seite 465 - But a reverence for our great Creator, principles of humanity, and the dictates of common sense, must convince all those who reflect upon the subject, that government was instituted to promote the welfare of mankind, and ought to be administered for the attainment of that end.
Seite 198 - 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 393 - 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 142 - Lord Bishop of London and that no other person now there or that shall come from other parts shall be admitted to keep school in North Carolina without your license first obtained.