History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... afterwards ensued , that there was then a general tendency at home to undervalue and contemn the people of the Colonies . They , and more especially the natives of New England , were often called by the name of YANKEES , which had grown ...
... afterwards ensued , that there was then a general tendency at home to undervalue and contemn the people of the Colonies . They , and more especially the natives of New England , were often called by the name of YANKEES , which had grown ...
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... afterwards has left a curious and authentic account of their proceedings at this time . " What we did , " says he , " was with the help " of Rushworth , whom we rummaged over for the Re- volutionary precedents and forms of the Puritans ...
... afterwards has left a curious and authentic account of their proceedings at this time . " What we did , " says he , " was with the help " of Rushworth , whom we rummaged over for the Re- volutionary precedents and forms of the Puritans ...
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... afterwards , seeing the necessity of keeping the soldiers separate from the people , he began to fortify that neck of land , and also to build temporary barracks . As the time approached for the general muster of the Militia he deemed ...
... afterwards , seeing the necessity of keeping the soldiers separate from the people , he began to fortify that neck of land , and also to build temporary barracks . As the time approached for the general muster of the Militia he deemed ...
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... afterwards Adjutant General to Washington , write as follows to Lord Dartmouth : " Believe me , my Lord , no " King ever had more loyal subjects , or any country " more affectionate Colonists , than the Americans WERE . " I who am but a ...
... afterwards Adjutant General to Washington , write as follows to Lord Dartmouth : " Believe me , my Lord , no " King ever had more loyal subjects , or any country " more affectionate Colonists , than the Americans WERE . " I who am but a ...
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... afterwards followed both by other Colonies and by the Congress , and at a later period by the COMITÉS DU SALUT PUBLIC in France . * Above all they drew up a plan for their defence ; they provided . ammunition and stores for twelve ...
... afterwards followed both by other Colonies and by the Congress , and at a later period by the COMITÉS DU SALUT PUBLIC in France . * Above all they drew up a plan for their defence ; they provided . ammunition and stores for twelve ...
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Sivu 61 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Sivu 198 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Sivu 202 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Sivu 49 - 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?
Sivu 64 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Sivu 290 - 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.
Sivu 34 - If amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honour and prosperity, that angel should have drawn up the curtain, and unfolded the rising glories of his country, and whilst he was gazing with admiration on the then commercial grandeur of England, the genius should...
Sivu 201 - 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 — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering...
Sivu 301 - My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.
Sivu 23 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed— you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them; I stake my reputation on it: I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.