History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... - money 62 Measures to raise an army .............................. . Washington chosen Commander - in - chief ............ His early life ..... 63 64 65 A.D. 1775. His character . He sets out for Massachusetts vi CONTENTS .
... - money 62 Measures to raise an army .............................. . Washington chosen Commander - in - chief ............ His early life ..... 63 64 65 A.D. 1775. His character . He sets out for Massachusetts vi CONTENTS .
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... chief . These pur- ported : That no obedience was due to the late Acts of Parliament ; that no taxes should be paid to Government ; that the persons who had ac- cepted seats in the Council by nomination from the King had acted in direct ...
... chief . These pur- ported : That no obedience was due to the late Acts of Parliament ; that no taxes should be paid to Government ; that the persons who had ac- cepted seats in the Council by nomination from the King had acted in direct ...
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... Chief Justice at their head , but the juries to a man refused to serve . Throughout the colony the sheriffs , magistrates , and clerks either made their peace with the people by solemnly promising not to act under the new law , or else ...
... Chief Justice at their head , but the juries to a man refused to serve . Throughout the colony the sheriffs , magistrates , and clerks either made their peace with the people by solemnly promising not to act under the new law , or else ...
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... Chief Justice Marshall says , " it is probable that no legislative act " authorizing an election to Congress could have been obtained . " Yet the members thus irregularly chosen " were very readily " received into Congress . " ( Life of ...
... Chief Justice Marshall says , " it is probable that no legislative act " authorizing an election to Congress could have been obtained . " Yet the members thus irregularly chosen " were very readily " received into Congress . " ( Life of ...
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... chiefs Artemas Ward and Jedediah Preble , who * On the appointment and powers of this first " Committee " of Safety " see the American Archives , vol . i . p . 843 . — LI . 1774 . had seen some service in 26 HISTORY OF ENGLAND The ...
... chiefs Artemas Ward and Jedediah Preble , who * On the appointment and powers of this first " Committee " of Safety " see the American Archives , vol . i . p . 843 . — LI . 1774 . had seen some service in 26 HISTORY OF ENGLAND The ...
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Seite 31 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 72 - 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 74 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Seite 458 - 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 51 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — " Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Seite 33 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Seite 220 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
Seite 306 - 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...
Seite 307 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Seite 51 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...