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... turning favorably , as a rule , for the patriots , and the new recruits gained courage with experience . Thus near- ly two months passed away , and an elated patriot wrote that " danger and war are become pleasing , and injured virtue ...
... turning favorably , as a rule , for the patriots , and the new recruits gained courage with experience . Thus near- ly two months passed away , and an elated patriot wrote that " danger and war are become pleasing , and injured virtue ...
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... turned out to vote , and in some cases only the more violent . " In one place two men met and one appointed the other delegate to Congress . ' In North Carolina some of the representatives at the convention which appointed the delegates ...
... turned out to vote , and in some cases only the more violent . " In one place two men met and one appointed the other delegate to Congress . ' In North Carolina some of the representatives at the convention which appointed the delegates ...
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... turned from teaching and writing poetry to entertain a social club , to further study , and then to preaching , without , however , taking orders . He chanced to make the acquaintance of Franklin , and with his letter of introduction he ...
... turned from teaching and writing poetry to entertain a social club , to further study , and then to preaching , without , however , taking orders . He chanced to make the acquaintance of Franklin , and with his letter of introduction he ...
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... turned against him , and his personality not only prevented his stem- ming the tide of revolution but tended alarmingly to increase that movement . When Boston appealed to the other colonies in 1774 , the speaker of the North Carolina ...
... turned against him , and his personality not only prevented his stem- ming the tide of revolution but tended alarmingly to increase that movement . When Boston appealed to the other colonies in 1774 , the speaker of the North Carolina ...
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... turned against the radicals , and convinced the people that they could not have their will under the existing régime ... turning now for aid to Congress , was answered by the resolution of May 10 , which advised the creation of new ...
... turned against the radicals , and convinced the people that they could not have their will under the existing régime ... turning now for aid to Congress , was answered by the resolution of May 10 , which advised the creation of new ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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.