History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Volume 6Little, Brown, 1853 - Great Britain |
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... defence ! " * 66 - Large as was the number of Bills produced in this Session of Parliament , it was by no means solely on them that Lord North relied . He believed , though errone- ously , yet no doubt honestly and truly , that these ...
... defence ! " * 66 - Large as was the number of Bills produced in this Session of Parliament , it was by no means solely on them that Lord North relied . He believed , though errone- ously , yet no doubt honestly and truly , that these ...
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... defence of their just rights . But since the character of the gentlemen who drew up these words was far from being so grave or so religious as to give any weight to that Resolution in their hands , they prevailed on a venerable elder ...
... defence of their just rights . But since the character of the gentlemen who drew up these words was far from being so grave or so religious as to give any weight to that Resolution in their hands , they prevailed on a venerable elder ...
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... defence ; they provided ammunition and stores for twelve thousand Militia ; they appointed as chiefs Artemas Ward and Jedediah Preble , who had seen some service in the late Canadian war ; and they enrolled a great number of selected ...
... defence ; they provided ammunition and stores for twelve thousand Militia ; they appointed as chiefs Artemas Ward and Jedediah Preble , who had seen some service in the late Canadian war ; and they enrolled a great number of selected ...
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... defence , ex- " tension , and prosperity of the Colonies ; . . always " understood that the free grant of an aid as heretofore " required and expected from the Colonies is not to be " considered as a condition of redress , but as a just ...
... defence , ex- " tension , and prosperity of the Colonies ; . . always " understood that the free grant of an aid as heretofore " required and expected from the Colonies is not to be " considered as a condition of redress , but as a just ...
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... defence and also for the civil government of that province , and if such proposal should be approved of by the King and Parliament , it would be proper to forbear while such provision lasted from levy- ing or imposing any tax , duty ...
... defence and also for the civil government of that province , and if such proposal should be approved of by the King and Parliament , it would be proper to forbear while such provision lasted from levy- ing or imposing any tax , duty ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 21 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 307 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 22 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation, or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 230 - ... why is not the latter commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort ; and if we must fall, let us fall like men...