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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... danger to which he conducted others , and to set the example of every sacrifice he required them to incur . While the strict discipline he maintained commanded respect , the kind and graceful benevo- lence of his manners conciliated ...
... danger to which he conducted others , and to set the example of every sacrifice he required them to incur . While the strict discipline he maintained commanded respect , the kind and graceful benevo- lence of his manners conciliated ...
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... danger , was comparatively trifling . At length Abercrombie gave the signal to desist from the desperate enterprise ; and to an ill- concerted assault succeeded a retreat no less precipitate and injudicious . The British army , still ...
... danger , was comparatively trifling . At length Abercrombie gave the signal to desist from the desperate enterprise ; and to an ill- concerted assault succeeded a retreat no less precipitate and injudicious . The British army , still ...
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... danger and difficulty by which his enterprise was obstructed . Quebec is chiefly built on a steep rock on the northern bank of the St. Lawrence , and additionally defended by the river St. Charles , which , flowing past it on the east ...
... danger and difficulty by which his enterprise was obstructed . Quebec is chiefly built on a steep rock on the northern bank of the St. Lawrence , and additionally defended by the river St. Charles , which , flowing past it on the east ...
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... danger could not escape the penetration of Wolfe , yet he hesitated not a moment to embrace a project so conge- nial to his ardent and enterprising disposition , as well as to the hazardous and embarrassing predicament in which he was ...
... danger could not escape the penetration of Wolfe , yet he hesitated not a moment to embrace a project so conge- nial to his ardent and enterprising disposition , as well as to the hazardous and embarrassing predicament in which he was ...
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... danger of passing the land- ing - place ( which , nevertheless , very nearly happened ) in the dark ; and yet escaped the challenge of all the French senti- nels except one or two , whose vigilance , however , was baffled by the ...
... danger of passing the land- ing - place ( which , nevertheless , very nearly happened ) in the dark ; and yet escaped the challenge of all the French senti- nels except one or two , whose vigilance , however , was baffled by the ...
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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.