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... entering English ports , through which it must pass before being shipped to America , and by licensing the company itself to sell tea in America . To avoid yielding the principle for which they had been contending , they retained at ...
... entering English ports , through which it must pass before being shipped to America , and by licensing the company itself to sell tea in America . To avoid yielding the principle for which they had been contending , they retained at ...
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... entered upon the task of regulating a society in the state of revolution . The work of the Congress was far from unanimous . " Every important step was opposed , and carried by bare majorities . " The New England delegates , led by the ...
... entered upon the task of regulating a society in the state of revolution . The work of the Congress was far from unanimous . " Every important step was opposed , and carried by bare majorities . " The New England delegates , led by the ...
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... entered Montreal November 12 , 1775. Arnold , meanwhile , had made a terrible march through the Maine forests , starting up the Kennebec with eleven hun- dred men and coming down the Chaudière to the St. Lawrence with about five hundred ...
... entered Montreal November 12 , 1775. Arnold , meanwhile , had made a terrible march through the Maine forests , starting up the Kennebec with eleven hun- dred men and coming down the Chaudière to the St. Lawrence with about five hundred ...
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... entered eagerly into the controversy . The poetry of his early years was transmuted into glowing visions of an ideal society . His whole character and training made him the man for the occasion . This zealot in charity , lover and maker ...
... entered eagerly into the controversy . The poetry of his early years was transmuted into glowing visions of an ideal society . His whole character and training made him the man for the occasion . This zealot in charity , lover and maker ...
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... entering the harbor . He was ridiculed by Charles Lee , who had been sent south to direct this defence . Rutledge , however , sup- ported Moultrie , who , easy and careless and un- soldierly as he was , could fight . The British fleet ...
... entering the harbor . He was ridiculed by Charles Lee , who had been sent south to direct this defence . Rutledge , however , sup- ported Moultrie , who , easy and careless and un- soldierly as he was , could fight . The British fleet ...
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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 129 - ... deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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 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 91 - Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: We always had governed ourselves, and we always meant to. They didn't mean we should.
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 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.