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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... considerable ability , who had not yet made or at least declared his election between the interests of British prerogative and American liberty , was afterwards , in consequence of the rupture between the parent state and her colonies ...
... considerable ability , who had not yet made or at least declared his election between the interests of British prerogative and American liberty , was afterwards , in consequence of the rupture between the parent state and her colonies ...
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... considerable fleet , and twelve thousand British troops , conducted by General Amherst , an officer of distin- guished skill and ability , and under whom a subordinate com- mand was exercised by General Wolfe , one of the most heroic ...
... considerable fleet , and twelve thousand British troops , conducted by General Amherst , an officer of distin- guished skill and ability , and under whom a subordinate com- mand was exercised by General Wolfe , one of the most heroic ...
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... considerable part of the assembled forces in an 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 ...
... considerable part of the assembled forces in an 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 ...
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... considerable . But the death of Lord Howe had depressed the spirit and enfeebled the councils of the army ; and to this circumstance its subsequent misfortunes were mainly ascribed . The loss of that brave and accomplished officer was ...
... considerable . But the death of Lord Howe had depressed the spirit and enfeebled the councils of the army ; and to this circumstance its subsequent misfortunes were mainly ascribed . The loss of that brave and accomplished officer was ...
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... considerable number were found at Fort Niagara , were sent , at their own request , with their children to Montreal ; and the sick and wounded , who could not . sustain the fatigue of removal , were treated with humane attention ...
... considerable number were found at Fort Niagara , were sent , at their own request , with their children to Montreal ; and the sick and wounded , who could not . sustain the fatigue of removal , were treated with humane attention ...
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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.