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... Nearly the same feeling was displayed in the other Colonies . The Boston Port Bill was commonly printed with a black border round it , as though it contained funeral news ; and it was cried in the streets of many towns under the title ...
... Nearly the same feeling was displayed in the other Colonies . The Boston Port Bill was commonly printed with a black border round it , as though it contained funeral news ; and it was cried in the streets of many towns under the title ...
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... nearly all appeared in Philadelphia . Next day they met for public business at the Carpenters ' Hall ; and as their first step they unanimously chose for President Peyton Randolph , of Virginia , the late Speaker of the House of ...
... nearly all appeared in Philadelphia . Next day they met for public business at the Carpenters ' Hall ; and as their first step they unanimously chose for President Peyton Randolph , of Virginia , the late Speaker of the House of ...
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... nearly all , the Colonies . It may be true especially that no amount of good government , of forbearance , or of kind- ness would have won back Massachusetts . But herein lay , as I think , the especial force and efficacy of Lord ...
... nearly all , the Colonies . It may be true especially that no amount of good government , of forbearance , or of kind- ness would have won back Massachusetts . But herein lay , as I think , the especial force and efficacy of Lord ...
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... nearly all our English statesmen , to one party , one pro- * Sir Augustus Foster's Notes ( unpublished ) . terly Review , No. cxxxv . p . 39 . Extracts in Quar- † Resolutions of Congress moved by John Marshall , December 19 1799 . vince ...
... nearly all our English statesmen , to one party , one pro- * Sir Augustus Foster's Notes ( unpublished ) . terly Review , No. cxxxv . p . 39 . Extracts in Quar- † Resolutions of Congress moved by John Marshall , December 19 1799 . vince ...
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... prejudiced and passionate account of Poland . " Were I , " says he , " to call the common people brutes , I should injure the quadruped creation ! " S + In nearly all it may be said that the established 52 CHAP . LII . HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... prejudiced and passionate account of Poland . " Were I , " says he , " to call the common people brutes , I should injure the quadruped creation ! " S + In nearly all it may be said that the established 52 CHAP . LII . HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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Seite 63 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 48 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Seite 203 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Seite 307 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 202 - That God and nature put into our hands ! " I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering...
Seite 230 - ... why is not the latter commenced without hesitation ? I am not, I confess, well informed of the resources of this kingdom ; but I trust it has still sufficient to maintain its just rights, though I know them not. But, my Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort ; and if we must fall, let us fall like men...
Seite 22 - 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 22 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed— you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them; I stake my reputation on it: I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.
Seite 34 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Seite 111 - The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off; in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time.