An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof, with Its Various Successes and Disappointments, on Both Sides, Band 2T. Robson, 1780 |
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... nature , yet with thefe caufes of complaint the people feemed to pay a more than ordinary degree of attention and per- fonal regard to the Earl of Dunmore , their Gover nor . In this state of affairs however the want of a legal affembly ...
... nature , yet with thefe caufes of complaint the people feemed to pay a more than ordinary degree of attention and per- fonal regard to the Earl of Dunmore , their Gover nor . In this state of affairs however the want of a legal affembly ...
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... nature and tendency , fpread a general alarm throughout the colony , and excited a fort of abhorrence of government , and an incurable fufpicion of its defigns . - Several public meetings were now held in different counties , in all ...
... nature and tendency , fpread a general alarm throughout the colony , and excited a fort of abhorrence of government , and an incurable fufpicion of its defigns . - Several public meetings were now held in different counties , in all ...
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... nature with those that have been already ftated , and they ultimately declared , that as it only changed the form of expreffion , without leffening its burthen , they could not close with the terms . They obferved that these were only ...
... nature with those that have been already ftated , and they ultimately declared , that as it only changed the form of expreffion , without leffening its burthen , they could not close with the terms . They obferved that these were only ...
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... nature is faid to be , it is ma- nifeft , that provided men were to have the tutorage which God has provided unadulterated , the common ranks of men would fhow more virtue than those un- der der the influence of the greateft refinement ...
... nature is faid to be , it is ma- nifeft , that provided men were to have the tutorage which God has provided unadulterated , the common ranks of men would fhow more virtue than those un- der der the influence of the greateft refinement ...
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... nature was foon changed into open and avowed hofti- lity . Obnoxious perfons , they faid , were feized and carried a - board the fhips ; plantations were raved and deftroyed , the negroes carried off ; houfes burnt , and at laft lives ...
... nature was foon changed into open and avowed hofti- lity . Obnoxious perfons , they faid , were feized and carried a - board the fhips ; plantations were raved and deftroyed , the negroes carried off ; houfes burnt , and at laft lives ...
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Seite 169 - Upon the whole, it did not appear to your committee that his lordship's commission contained any other authority of importance than what is expressed in the act of Parliament, namely: that of granting pardons, with such exceptions as the commissioners shall think proper to make, and of declaring America, or any part of it, to be in the king's peace upon submission...
Seite 362 - Gates will of course take the necessary measures for the due performance of this article. Should any carriages be wanted during the march, for the transportation of officers' baggage, they are, if possible, to be supplied by the country at the usual rates.
Seite 353 - Her fondness for conquest, as a warlike nation, her lust of dominion, as an ambitious one, and her thirst...
Seite 411 - The policy, as well as the benevolence of Great Britain, have thus far checked the extremes of war, when they tended to distress a people, still considered as our fellow-subjects, and to desolate a country, shortly to become again a source of mutual advantage...
Seite 307 - The loss in reputation was greater to the Americans, and capable of more fatal consequences, than even that of ground, of posts, of artillery, or of men. All the contemptuous and most degrading charges which had been made by their enemies, of their wanting the resolution and abilities of men, even in their defence of whatever was dear to them, were now repeated and believed.
Seite 527 - In order to fix more precisely the sense and application of the preceding article, the contracting parties declare, that in case of a rupture between France and England, the reciprocal guarantee declared in the said article, shall have its full force and effect the moment such war shall break out...
Seite 525 - I If war should break out between France and Great Britain during the continuance of the present war between the United States and England, His Majesty and the said United States shall make it a common cause and aid each other mutually with their good offices, their counsels and their forces, according to the exigence of conjunctures, as becomes good and faithful allies.
Seite 362 - Gates's orders, at the same rate of rations as the troops of his own army ; and if possible the officers' horses and cattle are to be supplied with forage at the usual rates.
Seite 315 - Thus an army was poured forth by the woods, mountains, and marshes, which in this part were thickly sown with plantations and villages. The Americans recalled their courage, and, when their regular army seemed to be entirely wasted, the spirit of the country produced a much greater and more formidable force.
Seite 105 - ... be pleased to direct some mode, by which the united applications of your faithful colonists to the throne, in pursuance of their common councils...