Historical View of the American RevolutionTicknor & Fields, 1865 - 459 Seiten |
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... 1865 , by ANNA M. GREENE , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts The Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass . , U. S. A. Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company . TO CHARLES BUTLER , OF NEW YORK . MY DEAR.
... 1865 , by ANNA M. GREENE , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts The Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass . , U. S. A. Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company . TO CHARLES BUTLER , OF NEW YORK . MY DEAR.
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... Massachusetts charter 33 33 34 35 · 36 36 37 37 38 40 41 • 41 42 43 44 45 45 The ways by which England drives the colonies to seek independence 46 A new phase , the French and Indian war 47 The action of the colonists . The Congress at ...
... Massachusetts charter 33 33 34 35 · 36 36 37 37 38 40 41 • 41 42 43 44 45 45 The ways by which England drives the colonies to seek independence 46 A new phase , the French and Indian war 47 The action of the colonists . The Congress at ...
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... Massachusetts on their journey and Opinions of various members about their rights The great end of the Congress attained Joseph Galloway's plan defeated The work accomplished • The character of the Bill of Rights given by Chatham . The ...
... Massachusetts on their journey and Opinions of various members about their rights The great end of the Congress attained Joseph Galloway's plan defeated The work accomplished • The character of the Bill of Rights given by Chatham . The ...
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... Massachusetts charter Instruction of Congress to New Hampshire about her form of government New constitutions adopted in several states Defects in the constitutions remedied The authority of the constitutions derived from the peo- ple ...
... Massachusetts charter Instruction of Congress to New Hampshire about her form of government New constitutions adopted in several states Defects in the constitutions remedied The authority of the constitutions derived from the peo- ple ...
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... Massachusetts , and its evil effects 143 The fact established that government paper can for a time take the place of money 144 Continental money issued by Congress 145 Probable course of the debate which preceded this step Difficulty of ...
... Massachusetts , and its evil effects 143 The fact established that government paper can for a time take the place of money 144 Continental money issued by Congress 145 Probable course of the debate which preceded this step Difficulty of ...
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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 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 ! 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 442 - T is of the wave and not the rock ; T is but the flapping of the sail. And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears.
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 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 73 - British colonies on this continent, to consult together on the present circumstances of the colonies, and the difficulties to which they are, and must be, reduced by the operation of the acts of Parliament for levying duties and taxes on the colonies ; and to consider of a general and united, dutiful, loyal, and humble representation of their condition to his majesty and to the Parliament, and to implore relief.
Seite 435 - As stilly stole by a bold legion of horse, For Hale in the bush, for Hale in the bush. "Keep still !" said the thrush as she nestled her young, In a nest by the road; in a nest by the road. "For the tyrants are near, and with them appear What bodes us no good, what bodes us no good.
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 a master of it.
Seite 434 - A hundred men with each a pen, Or more upon my word, sir, It is most true would be too few, Their valor to record, sir.