The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of the British Colonies Till Their Revolt and Declaration of Independence, Volume 4 |
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... regard it , as , in some mea- ' Hutchinson has already been introduced to our notice . It was he who was after- wards so celebrated and unfortunate as the governor of Massachusetts in the com- mencement of the revolutionary controversy ...
... regard it , as , in some mea- ' Hutchinson has already been introduced to our notice . It was he who was after- wards so celebrated and unfortunate as the governor of Massachusetts in the com- mencement of the revolutionary controversy ...
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... regard to their sectarian principles , they ob- structed every preparation even for defensive war , and suffered the frontiers of the province to be desolated by Indian rage and cruelty and all the inhabitants of the colony , but the ...
... regard to their sectarian principles , they ob- structed every preparation even for defensive war , and suffered the frontiers of the province to be desolated by Indian rage and cruelty and all the inhabitants of the colony , but the ...
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... regard to the unmixed virtue and disinterestedness of the founder of Pennsylvania.1 Franklin judged that now was the time to present the petition of the provincial assembly , and to have their cause discussed before the privy council ...
... regard to the unmixed virtue and disinterestedness of the founder of Pennsylvania.1 Franklin judged that now was the time to present the petition of the provincial assembly , and to have their cause discussed before the privy council ...
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... regard to their ultimate issue by his cor- respondence with Franklin.1 : Quitting the cabinet for the field , we now resume the pro- gress of the war in America . The conquest of Canada was the object to which the most ardent wishes of ...
... regard to their ultimate issue by his cor- respondence with Franklin.1 : Quitting the cabinet for the field , we now resume the pro- gress of the war in America . The conquest of Canada was the object to which the most ardent wishes of ...
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... regard with veneration those titular distinctions which , having no real substance , afford unbounded scope to fanciful apprehension : and almost uni- versal suffrage is won , when the possession of such lofty though unsolid pretensions ...
... regard with veneration those titular distinctions which , having no real substance , afford unbounded scope to fanciful apprehension : and almost uni- versal suffrage is won , when the possession of such lofty though unsolid pretensions ...
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Page 368 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 201 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 230 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 387 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Page 190 - They planted by your care! No! your oppressions planted them in America. — They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and...
Page 190 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Page 368 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 454 - It will be very agreeable to me; indeed, nothing has ever hurt me so much, and affected me with such keen sensations, as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only son ; and not only deserted, but to find him taking up arms against me in a cause wherein my good fame, fortune and life, were all at stake.
Page 191 - God knows I do not at this time speak from motives of party heat ; what I deliver are the genuine sentiments of my heart. However superior to me in general. knowledge and experience the respectable body of this house may be...
Page 362 - America, by beginning to allay ferments and soften animosities there, and above all for preventing in the mean time any sudden and fatal catastrophe at Boston, now suffering under the daily irritation of an army before their eyes...