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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... inhabitants , were apt to proclaim the political sentiments which they cherished with an energy unguarded by the limits of the political theory which they confessed ; but in seasons of more calmness and deliberation , they could not ...
... inhabitants , were apt to proclaim the political sentiments which they cherished with an energy unguarded by the limits of the political theory which they confessed ; but in seasons of more calmness and deliberation , they could not ...
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... inhabitants and assembly of the province , who were represented as actuated by selfish motives and a mutinous and refractory spirit , because they persisted in withstanding the claim of the proprietaries to an exemption from that ...
... inhabitants and assembly of the province , who were represented as actuated by selfish motives and a mutinous and refractory spirit , because they persisted in withstanding the claim of the proprietaries to an exemption from that ...
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... inhabitants of a British province , whose exertions to defend themselves against the common enemy , and to cooperate with the general service of the empire , were obstructed by the insolence and selfishness of a single wealthy family ...
... inhabitants of a British province , whose exertions to defend themselves against the common enemy , and to cooperate with the general service of the empire , were obstructed by the insolence and selfishness of a single wealthy family ...
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... inhabitants of Cape Breton were transported to France in English ships ; but the French garrison and their naval auxilia- ries were carried prisoners of war to England , where the un- wonted tidings of victory and conquest were hailed ...
... inhabitants of Cape Breton were transported to France in English ships ; but the French garrison and their naval auxilia- ries were carried prisoners of war to England , where the un- wonted tidings of victory and conquest were hailed ...
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... inhabitants , villages , and plantations . Soon after his landing , Wolfe distributed a manifesto among the French colonists , acquainting them that the king , his master , justly exasperated against the French monarch , had equipped a ...
... inhabitants , villages , and plantations . Soon after his landing , Wolfe distributed a manifesto among the French colonists , acquainting them that the king , his master , justly exasperated against the French monarch , had equipped a ...
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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.