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... Britain , or to the historical attempts made , at different periods , by the En- glish patriots , to introduce new features into the government of their country . Questions frequently arose , in the debates of the students , relating to ...
... Britain , or to the historical attempts made , at different periods , by the En- glish patriots , to introduce new features into the government of their country . Questions frequently arose , in the debates of the students , relating to ...
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... Britain involved them anew in war . The colonists were now destined to combat with well appointed , well disciplined troops from Europe ; and the horrors of the tomahawk and the scalping knife were again renewed . But these frowns of ...
... Britain involved them anew in war . The colonists were now destined to combat with well appointed , well disciplined troops from Europe ; and the horrors of the tomahawk and the scalping knife were again renewed . But these frowns of ...
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... Britain saw her soldiers , the unhappy instru- ments of despotism , fallen in heaps , beneath the nervous arm of injured freemen ! " There the great Warren fought , and there , alas ! he fell ! Valuing life only as it enabled him to ...
... Britain saw her soldiers , the unhappy instru- ments of despotism , fallen in heaps , beneath the nervous arm of injured freemen ! " There the great Warren fought , and there , alas ! he fell ! Valuing life only as it enabled him to ...
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... Britain , and rose triumphant over the aggressions of your enemies ! " Trenton , Princeton , Bennington and Saratoga were the suc- cessive theatres of your victories , and the utmost bounds of creation are the limits of your fame ! The ...
... Britain , and rose triumphant over the aggressions of your enemies ! " Trenton , Princeton , Bennington and Saratoga were the suc- cessive theatres of your victories , and the utmost bounds of creation are the limits of your fame ! The ...
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... Britain , twice humbled for her aggressions , has at length been taught to respect us . But France , once our ally , has dared to insult us ! She has viola- ted her treaty obligations - she has depredated our commerce she has abused our ...
... Britain , twice humbled for her aggressions , has at length been taught to respect us . But France , once our ally , has dared to insult us ! She has viola- ted her treaty obligations - she has depredated our commerce she has abused our ...
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Page 278 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 57 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 278 - Liberty first and Union afterward"; but everywhere spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Page 336 - Croix River to the Highlands, along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the North-westernmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 336 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 348 - The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare, equip, and maintain in service, on the coast of Africa, a sufficient and adequate squadron, or naval force of vessels, of suitable numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations, of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the slave trade...
Page 306 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar offj they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 233 - An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes...
Page 336 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 26 - ... revolutionary war, shrunk from no danger, no toil, no sacrifice, to serve his country, and to raise his children to a condition better than his own, may my name and the name of my posterity be blotted forever from the memory of mankind ! [Mr.
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The American Past: A History of the United States from Concord to Hiroshima ... Roger Butterfield No preview available - 1947 |