An Inquiry Into the Views, Services, Principles, and Influences of the Leading Men in the Origination of Our Union: And in the Formation and Early Administration of Our Present Government, Volume 1Saxton and Kelt, 1847 - United States |
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... expect to conquer a people so united , firm , and absolutely determined . ' 1776 . Gen. Washington to Joseph Reed , Jan. 14 . The reflection on my situation , and that of this army , produces many an unhappy hour , when all around me ...
... expect to conquer a people so united , firm , and absolutely determined . ' 1776 . Gen. Washington to Joseph Reed , Jan. 14 . The reflection on my situation , and that of this army , produces many an unhappy hour , when all around me ...
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... expecting , as courage and generosity are naturally united , our brave enemies would become our hearty friends , and that the Divine Being would bless to you the dispensations of his over - ruling providence , by securing to you and ...
... expecting , as courage and generosity are naturally united , our brave enemies would become our hearty friends , and that the Divine Being would bless to you the dispensations of his over - ruling providence , by securing to you and ...
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... expect to become the victims of their relentless fury . With such a force , we may still have hope of seeing an im- mediate end put to the inhuman ravages of the mercenary troops in America , and the wicked authors of our miseries ...
... expect to become the victims of their relentless fury . With such a force , we may still have hope of seeing an im- mediate end put to the inhuman ravages of the mercenary troops in America , and the wicked authors of our miseries ...
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... expect much from his , and his troop's example . ' To GOVERNOR WARD , IN CONGRESS . ' CAMP , PROSPECT HILL , 4 June , 1775 . ' DEAR SIR , -Your kind favor of the 23d last , is now before me . I am extremely happy to find your views so ...
... expect much from his , and his troop's example . ' To GOVERNOR WARD , IN CONGRESS . ' CAMP , PROSPECT HILL , 4 June , 1775 . ' DEAR SIR , -Your kind favor of the 23d last , is now before me . I am extremely happy to find your views so ...
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... expect to set out to - morrow for Boston , and hope to be joined there in a little time by ten companies of riflemen from this Province , Maryland and Virginia . For other articles of intelligence , I shall refer you to the papers , as ...
... expect to set out to - morrow for Boston , and hope to be joined there in a little time by ten companies of riflemen from this Province , Maryland and Virginia . For other articles of intelligence , I shall refer you to the papers , as ...
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Page 26 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Page 69 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.
Page 27 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Page 32 - ... any person within the limits of their appointment, has violated this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to...
Page 129 - Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed.
Page 28 - All and each of which the aforesaid deputies, in behalf of themselves and their constituents, do claim, demand, and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties; which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their own consent, by their representatives in their several provincial legislatures.
Page 479 - Our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions, and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times.
Page 27 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Page 285 - The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo, has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances, almost by whole regiments, by half ones, 'and by companies at a time.
Page 28 - It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional, dangerous and destructive to the freedom of American legislation.