Historical View of the American RevolutionFields, Osgood & Company, successors to Ticknor and Fields, 1895 - 459 Seiten |
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... looked to them like home . It was their inspiration , their guide , and their comforter , interwoven with all their habits and thoughts and feelings , and in- separable from their conception of duty to them- selves , to their children ...
... looked to them like home . It was their inspiration , their guide , and their comforter , interwoven with all their habits and thoughts and feelings , and in- separable from their conception of duty to them- selves , to their children ...
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... looked to England as to a mother to whom they were all bound by natural and not unwelcome ties . Yet something which might have awakened sus- picion had already occurred . The Pilgrims had not yet PHASES OF THE REVOLUTION . 35.
... looked to England as to a mother to whom they were all bound by natural and not unwelcome ties . Yet something which might have awakened sus- picion had already occurred . The Pilgrims had not yet PHASES OF THE REVOLUTION . 35.
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... looked on so coldly , if she had looked at all , while they were creating them . With all the love they bore that mother , and we have already seen that they loved her , there was an instinctive rising of the Colonial spirit against ...
... looked on so coldly , if she had looked at all , while they were creating them . With all the love they bore that mother , and we have already seen that they loved her , there was an instinctive rising of the Colonial spirit against ...
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... looked down upon Provincial volunteers , on the parade- ground and in camp ; and how they were com- pelled to look up to them in the woods , and with the war - whoop ringing in their ears . You know how Provincial colonels were ...
... looked down upon Provincial volunteers , on the parade- ground and in camp ; and how they were com- pelled to look up to them in the woods , and with the war - whoop ringing in their ears . You know how Provincial colonels were ...
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... looked up to him with rever- ence , warmed by love . Citizens acknowledged that his virtue was as exalted as his wisdom . And Congress , which - no longer the Congress of the " Declaration " - had lost much of its hold upon the public ...
... looked up to him with rever- ence , warmed by love . Citizens acknowledged that his virtue was as exalted as his wisdom . And Congress , which - no longer the Congress of the " Declaration " - had lost much of its hold upon the public ...
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already American arms army battle bills Boston British brought called camp campaign Carolina cause character claims Colonies Colonists committee Committees of Correspondence common compelled Congress contest Continental Cornwallis court duty eloquence enemy England English equally eyes faith fathers feeling felt France Franklin French friends give grave Greene hand heart honor hope human important John Adams John Dickinson King labor land LECTURE letter looked MacFingal Massachusetts ment military militia mind nation nature never officers opinion passed peace position prepared principle question reached resolved retreat reverence Revolution Rhode Island Richard Henry Lee royal Samuel Adams Silas Deane soldiers soon South Carolina spirit Stamp Act statesmen Steuben strength success sword things thirteen Colonies thought tion Tories treaty troops union Virginia vote Washington Whigs Writs of Assistance York
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Seite 442 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Seite 364 - This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Seite 87 - 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 342 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Seite 254 - ... with the deepest concern, I am obliged to confess my want of confidence in the generality of the troops.
Seite 442 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Seite 121 - ... to call a full and free representation of the people, and that the said representatives, if they think it necessary, establish such a form of government as, in their judgment, will best produce the happiness of the people and most effectually secure peace and good order in the colony during the continuance of the present dispute between Great Britain and the colonies.
Seite 99 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Seite 122 - Hampshire, to call a full and free representation of the people, and that the representatives, if they think it necessary, establish such a form of government, as in their judgment will best produce the happiness of the people, and most effectually secure peace and good order in the Province, during the continuance of the present dispute between Great Britain and the Colonies.
Seite 363 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.