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... command of the humanities and of the classic authors . Looked at superficially , he seemed jealous , self - seeking , and vain . This , men saw rather than his bold and active mind . Hence his manners were bad , while his judgments and ...
... command of the humanities and of the classic authors . Looked at superficially , he seemed jealous , self - seeking , and vain . This , men saw rather than his bold and active mind . Hence his manners were bad , while his judgments and ...
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... command in his modest way , refusing to accept any pay for his services except his actual expenses . A week later he set out from Philadel- phia , and on July 3 , on Cambridge Common , took command of his army . Of the sixteen thousand ...
... command in his modest way , refusing to accept any pay for his services except his actual expenses . A week later he set out from Philadel- phia , and on July 3 , on Cambridge Common , took command of his army . Of the sixteen thousand ...
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... command , and not the mere major - generalship , of which he was unworthy . The adjutant - general , Gates , was another in- triguing English hero who was supposed to be giving up his all for liberty . ' Among the eight brigadier ...
... command , and not the mere major - generalship , of which he was unworthy . The adjutant - general , Gates , was another in- triguing English hero who was supposed to be giving up his all for liberty . ' Among the eight brigadier ...
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... command in America , and George III . had touched his present commission when sign- ing it as he would have touched pitch . On Lord Howe's voyage to America he was sure of " peace within ten days of his arrival . " Indeed , the radical ...
... command in America , and George III . had touched his present commission when sign- ing it as he would have touched pitch . On Lord Howe's voyage to America he was sure of " peace within ten days of his arrival . " Indeed , the radical ...
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... command in Canada , reached the army late in April , but died soon , so that Arnold was in actual control of the whole retreat . Montreal was now retaken by Carleton , and then the pursuit of Arnold was resumed , until the Americans ...
... command in Canada , reached the army late in April , but died soon , so that Arnold was in actual control of the whole retreat . Montreal was now retaken by Carleton , and then the pursuit of Arnold was resumed , until the Americans ...
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Seite 83 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Seite 148 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of Magistrate, Legislator, or Judge, to be hereditary.
Seite 150 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage...
Seite 142 - The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life...
Seite 237 - For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.
Seite 146 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Seite 48 - Such a dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another, in this great change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again.
Seite 47 - Added to these, the military chest is totally exhausted ; the paymaster has not a single dollar in hand ; the commissary-general assures me he has strained his credit, for the subsistence of the army, to the utmost.
Seite 194 - I confess I dread their overruling influence in council; I dread their low cunning, and those levelling principles which men without character and without fortune in general possess, which are so captivating to the lower class of mankind, and which will occasion such a fluctuation of property as to introduce the greatest disorder.
Seite 129 - You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation. No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud.