... The American Revolution: 1776-1783Harper & brothers, 1905 - 369 Seiten |
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... Later Jun ention that ignored the Pa , delegates to vote to not before July 2nd 177 ttheir delegates to lavo elegates approved of the was taken in Congress , ther matters setting 11 e states were going with ose delegates did no nd and ...
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... later the " Gentle Shepherd , " as Pitt had dubbed him , proved his watchfulness by getting a stamp act passed , ' which , though nearly a duplicate of one in force in England , and like one of Massachusetts ' own laws , nevertheless ...
... later the " Gentle Shepherd , " as Pitt had dubbed him , proved his watchfulness by getting a stamp act passed , ' which , though nearly a duplicate of one in force in England , and like one of Massachusetts ' own laws , nevertheless ...
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... later acts of Parliament and the conduct of the king had the sole purpose of overcoming resistance to established government . Most of these coercive acts , though no part of the original policy , were perfectly con- stitutional even in ...
... later acts of Parliament and the conduct of the king had the sole purpose of overcoming resistance to established government . Most of these coercive acts , though no part of the original policy , were perfectly con- stitutional even in ...
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... later , in London , he studied law in the Temple . There he was trained solely in English statute and common law , and as a result his later arguments in the American cause had little tendency to fall back on philosophical concepts of ...
... later , in London , he studied law in the Temple . There he was trained solely in English statute and common law , and as a result his later arguments in the American cause had little tendency to fall back on philosophical concepts of ...
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... later asserted , demanded its surrender " in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress , " he had no right to do so , for his commission was from Connecticut , and Congress when it assembled 2 " Samuel Ward's Diary ...
... later asserted , demanded its surrender " in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress , " he had no right to do so , for his commission was from Connecticut , and Congress when it assembled 2 " Samuel Ward's Diary ...
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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.