History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Nide 6Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... less scrupulous than the rest who already looked towards France as a future source of succour , they must have hailed as an event auspicious to them the death of Louis the Fifteenth . That monarch had expired at Versailles on the 10th ...
... less scrupulous than the rest who already looked towards France as a future source of succour , they must have hailed as an event auspicious to them the death of Louis the Fifteenth . That monarch had expired at Versailles on the 10th ...
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... less than six regiments with a train of artillery . These troops for the most part he encamped on the Common close to Boston ; and desertion becoming frequent and much encouraged , he stationed a strong guard on Boston Neck , the narrow ...
... less than six regiments with a train of artillery . These troops for the most part he encamped on the Common close to Boston ; and desertion becoming frequent and much encouraged , he stationed a strong guard on Boston Neck , the narrow ...
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... less firmly determined to uphold their connection . - An Englishman viewing these things after the event cannot but observe with pain , and also in a national sense with self - reproach , how strong had been , and was still , the tie of ...
... less firmly determined to uphold their connection . - An Englishman viewing these things after the event cannot but observe with pain , and also in a national sense with self - reproach , how strong had been , and was still , the tie of ...
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... less of venality at this General Election than in the preceding one . In most of the po- pulous places where the public feeling could be shown it 66 * On the appointment and powers of this first " Committee of Safety " see the American ...
... less of venality at this General Election than in the preceding one . In most of the po- pulous places where the public feeling could be shown it 66 * On the appointment and powers of this first " Committee of Safety " see the American ...
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... less explicitly that no tax or tallage or other charge for the revenue should be levied from any body of British free- men in America without the consent of its own repre- sentative assembly . It declared that delegates from the several ...
... less explicitly that no tax or tallage or other charge for the revenue should be levied from any body of British free- men in America without the consent of its own repre- sentative assembly . It declared that delegates from the several ...
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Acts Address Admiral afterwards American Archives appeared appointed arms army Assembly battle Bill Britain British troops Bunker's Hill Burgoyne Burke called Canada Captain chief Clinton Colonel Colonies command Congress Correspondence Council Crown declared deemed defence despatched Duke of Grafton Earl enemy England English ensued favour Fayette feeling fire force France Franklin French friends Gage Government Governor honour hope House of Commons Hugh Palliser ington Island Jared Sparks Keppel King King's La Fayette land late least less letter Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord John Cavendish Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne Majesty March Massachusetts measure ment Militia Ministers months never observed occasion officers Opposition Parliament party passed peace period Philadelphia present President province rank Reed repeal Resolutions Royal says sent ships side Silas Deane Sparks Sparks's speech spirit tion town treaty vote voyage Washington whole words Writings York
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Sivu 60 - ... 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 329 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Sivu 203 - ... 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 21 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Sivu 263 - ... the peerage more than I do ; — but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more, I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament, as speaker of this right...
Sivu 48 - 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 202 - 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 34 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it...
Sivu 320 - 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 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.