A History of the American Revolution: Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Band 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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... occasion , in the following pages , to observe the truth of this remark . But before we en- ter upon the immediate execution of our task - a re- cord of the events of our Revolution , in its broad and common acceptation - we must beg ...
... occasion , in the following pages , to observe the truth of this remark . But before we en- ter upon the immediate execution of our task - a re- cord of the events of our Revolution , in its broad and common acceptation - we must beg ...
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... occasion to smile at the ridiculous ar- rogance , and ostentatious liberality , with which a crowned head could give away , what belonged to him by no right , divine or human - this is the province of the general historian ; and to him ...
... occasion to smile at the ridiculous ar- rogance , and ostentatious liberality , with which a crowned head could give away , what belonged to him by no right , divine or human - this is the province of the general historian ; and to him ...
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... occasion , and to his grief for the loss of this most amiable and heroick young nobleman to whom he was most ardently attach- ed , may perhaps be attributed that state of mind in the General , which induced him to abandon an enterprise ...
... occasion , and to his grief for the loss of this most amiable and heroick young nobleman to whom he was most ardently attach- ed , may perhaps be attributed that state of mind in the General , which induced him to abandon an enterprise ...
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... occasion , must necessarily establish this melancholy truth that the inhabitants of the Colonies are the slaves of ... occasions when the assistance of the Colony was thought necessary to preserve the British interest in America ; from ...
... occasion , must necessarily establish this melancholy truth that the inhabitants of the Colonies are the slaves of ... occasions when the assistance of the Colony was thought necessary to preserve the British interest in America ; from ...
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... occasion , by any princi- ples but those of the purest loyalty and affection , as they always endeavoured by their conduct to demon- strate , that they consider their connexion with Great Britain , the seat of liberty , as their ...
... occasion , by any princi- ples but those of the purest loyalty and affection , as they always endeavoured by their conduct to demon- strate , that they consider their connexion with Great Britain , the seat of liberty , as their ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 252 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Seite 69 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Seite 89 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 211 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Seite 252 - I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Seite 209 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Seite 348 - He has excited Domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Seite 211 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Seite 72 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what taxes the people are able to bear, and the easiest mode of raising them, and are equally affected by such taxes themselves, is the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom, and without which the ancient constitution cannot subsist.
Seite 208 - An Act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time, as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...