Historical View of the American RevolutionFields, Osgood & Company, successors to Ticknor and Fields, 1895 - 459 Seiten |
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... and almost indefinite , three thousand years ago . In this light the American Revolution has , at last , taken its place in history , both as cause and as effect ; receiving its impulse from the past , CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION . 7.
... and almost indefinite , three thousand years ago . In this light the American Revolution has , at last , taken its place in history , both as cause and as effect ; receiving its impulse from the past , CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION . 7.
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... thousand miles by the spirit of monopoly . - Still the feeling engendered by this relation was not of a kind to make it lasting . That of the Americans was distrust and suspicion , strangely mixed with filial reverence , up an ...
... thousand miles by the spirit of monopoly . - Still the feeling engendered by this relation was not of a kind to make it lasting . That of the Americans was distrust and suspicion , strangely mixed with filial reverence , up an ...
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... thousand years . And in front , as far as eye could reach , stretched the firm phalanx of the enemy ; calm , deliberate , resolute , fearless , confi- dent of victory . For it was no longer a war of king against king , a war to decide ...
... thousand years . And in front , as far as eye could reach , stretched the firm phalanx of the enemy ; calm , deliberate , resolute , fearless , confi- dent of victory . For it was no longer a war of king against king , a war to decide ...
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... a few years , fifteen thousand acres of this wilderness were under cultivation . Everywhere , as you went , your eye was greeted by cornfields and orchards ― and cottages that told of peace within doors and 42 LECTURE II .
... a few years , fifteen thousand acres of this wilderness were under cultivation . Everywhere , as you went , your eye was greeted by cornfields and orchards ― and cottages that told of peace within doors and 42 LECTURE II .
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... thousand miles off , who had 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 ...
... thousand miles off , who had 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 ...
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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.