History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... force " at Boston ; irritated with an hostile array before her 66 eyes ; her concessions , even if you could force them , " would be suspicious and insecure . But it is more “ than evident that you cannot force them , united as they 66 ...
... force " at Boston ; irritated with an hostile array before her 66 eyes ; her concessions , even if you could force them , " would be suspicious and insecure . But it is more “ than evident that you cannot force them , united as they 66 ...
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... force and efficacy of Lord Chatham's scheme , that it did not refer the questions of Parliamentary supremacy and Colonial taxation to the decision of any one province , but , as the Americans themselves desired , to the decision of a ...
... force and efficacy of Lord Chatham's scheme , that it did not refer the questions of Parliamentary supremacy and Colonial taxation to the decision of any one province , but , as the Americans themselves desired , to the decision of a ...
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... forces by 2,000 , and the land forces by 4,300 men . A few weeks afterwards the eloquence of Chatham * To Mr. Holroyd , February 25 1775. Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works . ( not perhaps his political courage or sagacity ) was 32 CHAP . LI ...
... forces by 2,000 , and the land forces by 4,300 men . A few weeks afterwards the eloquence of Chatham * To Mr. Holroyd , February 25 1775. Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works . ( not perhaps his political courage or sagacity ) was 32 CHAP . LI ...
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... force . They passed Reso- lutions for the providing or making of fire - arms and bayonets ; they decreed an issue of bills of credit ; they formed a provincial arsenal at Concord , about eighteen miles inland ; they exhorted the Militia ...
... force . They passed Reso- lutions for the providing or making of fire - arms and bayonets ; they decreed an issue of bills of credit ; they formed a provincial arsenal at Concord , about eighteen miles inland ; they exhorted the Militia ...
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... force they found just arrived at Lexington . Here Lord Percy's men formed a hollow square , into which the British of the first detachment flung themselves at full length , utterly spent with fatigue , says one of their own Commissaries ...
... force they found just arrived at Lexington . Here Lord Percy's men formed a hollow square , into which the British of the first detachment flung themselves at full length , utterly spent with fatigue , says one of their own Commissaries ...
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Acts Address afterwards American Archives appeared appointed arms army Arnold Assembly Britain British troops Bunker's Hill Burgoyne Burke called Canada Carleton civil Clinton Colonel Colonies Congress Correspondence Council Crown declared deemed defence delegates despatched Duke Earl enemy England English ensued Fayette feeling fire force France Franklin French friends Gage Government Governor Hist honour hope House of Commons ington Israel Putnam Jared Sparks John the Painter King King's La Fayette Lake Champlain land late least less letter liberty Lord Chatham Lord Dartmouth Lord John Cavendish Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne Majesty March Massachusetts measure ment Militia mind Ministers months never occasion officers opposite Parliament party passed peace period Philadelphia President province rank Reed repeal Resolutions Royal says sent side Silas Deane soldiers Sparks Sparks's speech spirit supplies thousand tion town Virginia vote Washington whole words Writings York
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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.