History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... Fires in the Dockyard at Portsmouth Incendiary attempt at Plymouth And at Bristol John the Painter ib . 140 141 ib . ib . 142 ib . His connexion with Silas Deane His trial And execution - Trial of the Rev. John Horne 143 144 it . 145 ...
... Fires in the Dockyard at Portsmouth Incendiary attempt at Plymouth And at Bristol John the Painter ib . 140 141 ib . ib . 142 ib . His connexion with Silas Deane His trial And execution - Trial of the Rev. John Horne 143 144 it . 145 ...
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... fire ; his boats conveying bricks were sunk ; his waggons laden with timber were overturned . Nothing but his watchful care and brave forbearance still prevented ( and could they always prevent ? ) some bloody conflict . It is a ...
... fire ; his boats conveying bricks were sunk ; his waggons laden with timber were overturned . Nothing but his watchful care and brave forbearance still prevented ( and could they always prevent ? ) some bloody conflict . It is a ...
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... fire - arms and bayonets ; they decreed an issue of bills of credit ; they formed a provincial arsenal at Concord , about eighteen miles inland ; they exhorted the Militia to perfect them- selves as speedily as possible in military ...
... fire - arms and bayonets ; they decreed an issue of bills of credit ; they formed a provincial arsenal at Concord , about eighteen miles inland ; they exhorted the Militia to perfect them- selves as speedily as possible in military ...
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... fire . The Americans state , on the contrary , that the British fired first and without provocation . Be that fact as it may , several of the Americans were now killed and wounded ; and such was the first encounter , the first bloodshed ...
... fire . The Americans state , on the contrary , that the British fired first and without provocation . Be that fact as it may , several of the Americans were now killed and wounded ; and such was the first encounter , the first bloodshed ...
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... fire . The number of such assailants con- tinually increased ; and before the British , now exhausted with long marching , could again reach Lexington their retreat had grown into a rout . Their utter destruction would have ensued had ...
... fire . The number of such assailants con- tinually increased ; and before the British , now exhausted with long marching , could again reach Lexington their retreat had grown into a rout . Their utter destruction would have ensued had ...
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Seite 61 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Seite 198 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Seite 202 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Seite 49 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Seite 64 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 290 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 34 - If amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honour and prosperity, that angel should have drawn up the curtain, and unfolded the rising glories of his country, and whilst he was gazing with admiration on the then commercial grandeur of England, the genius should...
Seite 201 - That God and nature put into our hands ! " I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering...
Seite 301 - My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.
Seite 23 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed— you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them; I stake my reputation on it: I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.