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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... command of 22d Regimental District , M. F. S. N. Y. , 1849. - Brigadier - General for " important service " ( first appointment in New York State to that rank , hitherto elective ) , 1851 , M. F. S. N. Y. - Military Agent State of New ...
... command of 22d Regimental District , M. F. S. N. Y. , 1849. - Brigadier - General for " important service " ( first appointment in New York State to that rank , hitherto elective ) , 1851 , M. F. S. N. Y. - Military Agent State of New ...
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... commands that the justices should grant the accom- modation required from them ; declaring , that , in his opinion , the act of parliament did extend to America , and to every ' Trumbull . Minot . Belknap . Franklin's Memoirs . Carver's ...
... commands that the justices should grant the accom- modation required from them ; declaring , that , in his opinion , the act of parliament did extend to America , and to every ' Trumbull . Minot . Belknap . Franklin's Memoirs . Carver's ...
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... command of the royal forces was delegated to General Abercrombie.1 - The progress of the war in America had been hitherto sig- nalized by the discomfiture of the English and the triumph of the French , a result that was beheld with ...
... command of the royal forces was delegated to General Abercrombie.1 - The progress of the war in America had been hitherto sig- nalized by the discomfiture of the English and the triumph of the French , a result that was beheld with ...
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... command of the entire forces employed in this quar- ter of the world devolved , was now at the head of the most powerful army that had ever been assembled in America , con- sisting of fifty thousand men , of whom twenty - two thousand ...
... command of the entire forces employed in this quar- ter of the world devolved , was now at the head of the most powerful army that had ever been assembled in America , con- sisting of fifty thousand men , of whom twenty - two thousand ...
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... command of Lord Loudoun , was disallowed by the governor , because the estates of the proprietaries were not exempted from the assessment it imposed . Lord Loudoun endeavoured to mediate between the disputants , whose respective pleas ...
... command of Lord Loudoun , was disallowed by the governor , because the estates of the proprietaries were not exempted from the assessment it imposed . Lord Loudoun endeavoured to mediate between the disputants , whose respective pleas ...
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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.