The History of the United States of North America: From the Plantation of the British Colonies Till Their Assumption of National Independence, Volume 4Lea and Blanchard, 1845 - United States |
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... attack upon it was first suspended by the necessity of gaining this preliminary information , and ultimately relinquished in consequence of the result of his inquiries , and of the acces- sion of force the place received while these ...
... attack upon it was first suspended by the necessity of gaining this preliminary information , and ultimately relinquished in consequence of the result of his inquiries , and of the acces- sion of force the place received while these ...
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... attack was made upon them by the Indians , who stripped them both of their baggage and their clothes , and murdered or made pris- oners of all who attempted resistance . About fifteen hundred It is not uncommon for the historians of ...
... attack was made upon them by the Indians , who stripped them both of their baggage and their clothes , and murdered or made pris- oners of all who attempted resistance . About fifteen hundred It is not uncommon for the historians of ...
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... attack them with advantage . The spirit of the English nation , which had been kindling for some time , was in this emergency provoked to a pitch that could brook no longer the languid and inefficient conduct of the operations in ...
... attack them with advantage . The spirit of the English nation , which had been kindling for some time , was in this emergency provoked to a pitch that could brook no longer the languid and inefficient conduct of the operations in ...
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... attack upon Louisburg , and to commence its new system of operations by the reduction of that place . Three expeditions were proposed for the present year [ 1753 ] : the first , against Louisburg ; the second , against Ticon- deroga and ...
... attack upon Louisburg , and to commence its new system of operations by the reduction of that place . Three expeditions were proposed for the present year [ 1753 ] : the first , against Louisburg ; the second , against Ticon- deroga and ...
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... attacked their pursuers ; and at the first fire Lord Howe with a number of his soldiers fell . [ July 6. ] The suddenness of the assault , the terror inspired by the Indian yell 28 [ BOOK X. HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA .
... attacked their pursuers ; and at the first fire Lord Howe with a number of his soldiers fell . [ July 6. ] The suddenness of the assault , the terror inspired by the Indian yell 28 [ BOOK X. HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA .
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Page 393 - 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 209 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 239 - 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 501 - 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 500 - midst the roar Of cataracts, where nursing Nature smiled On infant Washington ? Has Earth no more Such seeds within her breast, or Europe no such shore ? XCVII.
Page 384 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.
Page 465 - But a reverence for our great Creator, principles of humanity, and the dictates of common sense, must convince all those who reflect upon the subject, that government was instituted to promote the welfare of mankind, and ought to be administered for the attainment of that end.
Page 198 - 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 393 - 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 142 - Lord Bishop of London and that no other person now there or that shall come from other parts shall be admitted to keep school in North Carolina without your license first obtained.