History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Nide 6Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... officers , and their adherents had encountered from Boston . The event of the 16th of De- cember therefore was only the last drop in their cup of wrath ; the last drop which made the waters of bitterness overflow . On the 7th of March a ...
... officers , and their adherents had encountered from Boston . The event of the 16th of De- cember therefore was only the last drop in their cup of wrath ; the last drop which made the waters of bitterness overflow . On the 7th of March a ...
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... officer in the King's service , when speaking in the House of Commons , were so grossly im- prudent and ill - judging as to refer to their countrymen over the Atlantic as árrant cowards . * Such words could not fail to sink deep in the ...
... officer in the King's service , when speaking in the House of Commons , were so grossly im- prudent and ill - judging as to refer to their countrymen over the Atlantic as árrant cowards . * Such words could not fail to sink deep in the ...
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... officers were removed to Salem , where the Assembly had already been convened for the week ensuing . But General Gage in the execution of his appointed duty found almost insuperable difficulties from the resolute and wide - spread ...
... officers were removed to Salem , where the Assembly had already been convened for the week ensuing . But General Gage in the execution of his appointed duty found almost insuperable difficulties from the resolute and wide - spread ...
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... officers and adherents were secure . General Gage having received large reinforcements had now under his command in Massachusetts no less than six regiments with a train of artillery . These troops for the most part he encamped on the ...
... officers and adherents were secure . General Gage having received large reinforcements had now under his command in Massachusetts no less than six regiments with a train of artillery . These troops for the most part he encamped on the ...
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... Smith to Governor Gage on the whole transaction . This officer , it will be seen , distinctly charges the Americans with having " scalped and otherwise ill - treated one or two of our men This affair , as is well observed by an American D ...
... Smith to Governor Gage on the whole transaction . This officer , it will be seen , distinctly charges the Americans with having " scalped and otherwise ill - treated one or two of our men This affair , as is well observed by an American D ...
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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.