Historical View of the American RevolutionFields, Osgood & Company, successors to Ticknor and Fields, 1895 - 459 Seiten |
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George Washington Greene. - Among the other sources from which I have drawn , I would particularly mention the documents in De Witt's valuable work upon Jefferson , and the elaborate Life of Steuben by Mr. Kapp . Since these Lectures ...
George Washington Greene. - Among the other sources from which I have drawn , I would particularly mention the documents in De Witt's valuable work upon Jefferson , and the elaborate Life of Steuben by Mr. Kapp . Since these Lectures ...
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George Washington Greene. The relative position of the two countries Resistance a necessity Patrick Henry's ... Washington's rise in public es- teem • British plan for 1777. A crisis How the plan is frustrated The calumnies against ...
George Washington Greene. The relative position of the two countries Resistance a necessity Patrick Henry's ... Washington's rise in public es- teem • British plan for 1777. A crisis How the plan is frustrated The calumnies against ...
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George Washington Greene. Congress criticised by the people and not entirely acquit- • • · ted by History Washington occupies the place in popular affection for- merly held by Congress . Congress driven from place to place It loses some ...
George Washington Greene. Congress criticised by the people and not entirely acquit- • • · ted by History Washington occupies the place in popular affection for- merly held by Congress . Congress driven from place to place It loses some ...
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George Washington Greene. 159 · 160 160 161 161 161 162 162 • 163 • 164 164 165 165 166 Expedients to revive national credit tried in vain Speculation and luxury prevalent • John Jay appointed to make an appeal to the states . The ...
George Washington Greene. 159 · 160 160 161 161 161 162 162 • 163 • 164 164 165 165 166 Expedients to revive national credit tried in vain Speculation and luxury prevalent • John Jay appointed to make an appeal to the states . The ...
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George Washington Greene. Overtures for peace . America's claims Franklin's colleagues and their course Preliminary ... Washington ap- pointed 218 Their privations Plan of the army Heart - burnings and jealousies . Washington takes ...
George Washington Greene. Overtures for peace . America's claims Franklin's colleagues and their course Preliminary ... Washington ap- pointed 218 Their privations Plan of the army Heart - burnings and jealousies . Washington takes ...
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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.