Historical View of the American RevolutionFields, Osgood & Company, successors to Ticknor and Fields, 1895 - 459 Seiten |
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... voting Patrick Henry gives up his opinion , the question settled temporarily · Congress opened by prayer Committees appointed to draft a Bill of Rights and to re- port on the statues of commerce The delegates from Massachusetts on their ...
... voting Patrick Henry gives up his opinion , the question settled temporarily · Congress opened by prayer Committees appointed to draft a Bill of Rights and to re- port on the statues of commerce The delegates from Massachusetts on their ...
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... vote for inde- pendence . • 99 100 Discussions of the Resolutions of independency and the ap- pointment of a committee to prepare the declaration 100 A Committee apointed to prepare a form of Confederation and one to plan treaties with ...
... vote for inde- pendence . • 99 100 Discussions of the Resolutions of independency and the ap- pointment of a committee to prepare the declaration 100 A Committee apointed to prepare a form of Confederation and one to plan treaties with ...
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... voted 154 The immorality of lotteries not recognized at this time The lottery unsuccessful 155 • 155 • A fresh issue directed 156 The depreciation continues the public alarmed -a tax voted 156 The difficulty of collecting the tax 157 ...
... voted 154 The immorality of lotteries not recognized at this time The lottery unsuccessful 155 • 155 • A fresh issue directed 156 The depreciation continues the public alarmed -a tax voted 156 The difficulty of collecting the tax 157 ...
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... votes to return to a specie basis · Another blow at paper money in Pennsylvania . 167 168 • Robert Morris ' fitness for his position - he establishes a bank 169 The history of American finances after this less interest- ing though as ...
... votes to return to a specie basis · Another blow at paper money in Pennsylvania . 167 168 • Robert Morris ' fitness for his position - he establishes a bank 169 The history of American finances after this less interest- ing though as ...
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... votes the officers half - pay for life The question again revived Newburg Letters " and Washington's treatment of them The half - pay commuted to five years ' full pay • Its ungrateful treatment by the country 239 240 241 241 241 242 ...
... votes the officers half - pay for life The question again revived Newburg Letters " and Washington's treatment of them The half - pay commuted to five years ' full pay • Its ungrateful treatment by the country 239 240 241 241 241 242 ...
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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.