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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... possessed none of that taste for disputation which characterized his predecessor , Governor Morris . He was ex- ceedingly desirous to enjoy an easy , quiet administration ; but , unfortunately , the attainment of this object was ...
... possessed none of that taste for disputation which characterized his predecessor , Governor Morris . He was ex- ceedingly desirous to enjoy an easy , quiet administration ; but , unfortunately , the attainment of this object was ...
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... possessed of the obedience of her transatlantic colonies.2 Pitt , undoubtedly , would never have consented to embrace any measure , of which the result , however flattering in immediate appearance , seemed to him ! probably to threaten ...
... possessed of the obedience of her transatlantic colonies.2 Pitt , undoubtedly , would never have consented to embrace any measure , of which the result , however flattering in immediate appearance , seemed to him ! probably to threaten ...
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... possessed the additional resource of four large armed vessels on the lake . Amherst exerted the utmost activity to create a naval force , without which it was impossi- ble for him to attack the enemy's position ; and with a sloop 1 ...
... possessed the additional resource of four large armed vessels on the lake . Amherst exerted the utmost activity to create a naval force , without which it was impossi- ble for him to attack the enemy's position ; and with a sloop 1 ...
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... Possessed with these notions , they disregarded the offered protection of Wolfe , and , aban- doning their habitations , joined the scalping parties of the Indians who skulked among the woods , and butchered with the most inhuman ...
... Possessed with these notions , they disregarded the offered protection of Wolfe , and , aban- doning their habitations , joined the scalping parties of the Indians who skulked among the woods , and butchered with the most inhuman ...
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... possessed of forces superior in number to the invaders , prudently determined to stand on the defensive , and mainly depend on the natural strength of the country , which , indeed , appeared almost insurmountable . He had lately rein ...
... possessed of forces superior in number to the invaders , prudently determined to stand on the defensive , and mainly depend on the natural strength of the country , which , indeed , appeared almost insurmountable . He had lately rein ...
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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.