History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... thousand militia ; they appointed as chiefs Artemas Ward and Jedediah Preble , who * On the appointment and powers of this first " Committee " of Safety " see the American Archives , vol . i . p . 843 . — LI . 1774 . had seen some ...
... thousand militia ; they appointed as chiefs Artemas Ward and Jedediah Preble , who * On the appointment and powers of this first " Committee " of Safety " see the American Archives , vol . i . p . 843 . — LI . 1774 . had seen some ...
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... thousand men who had followed from Connecticut . In this man- ner a force amounting , on paper at least , to twenty thousand men , was speedily collected around Bos- ton harbour . The chief command was vested in , or rather was allowed ...
... thousand men who had followed from Connecticut . In this man- ner a force amounting , on paper at least , to twenty thousand men , was speedily collected around Bos- ton harbour . The chief command was vested in , or rather was allowed ...
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... thousand dollars . With this lady Washington established himself at his country- house on the banks of the Potomac , which he had inherited from his elder brother , and which in compliment to Admiral Vernon under whom that brother ...
... thousand dollars . With this lady Washington established himself at his country- house on the banks of the Potomac , which he had inherited from his elder brother , and which in compliment to Admiral Vernon under whom that brother ...
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... thousand men . With these troops— which were courageous and well disciplined , and which should have been well commanded , an at- tack might have been made with every prospect of complete success against the bodies of American militia ...
... thousand men . With these troops— which were courageous and well disciplined , and which should have been well commanded , an at- tack might have been made with every prospect of complete success against the bodies of American militia ...
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... thousand pounds . CHA P. In war his bravery was never questioned , and in civil life he was gifted with many high accomplish- ments ; a fluent speaker in Parliament , and an agreeable writer of plays . His comedy " The " Heiress " is ...
... thousand pounds . CHA P. In war his bravery was never questioned , and in civil life he was gifted with many high accomplish- ments ; a fluent speaker in Parliament , and an agreeable writer of plays . His comedy " The " Heiress " is ...
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Seite 31 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 72 - 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 74 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Seite 458 - 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 51 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — " 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 33 - 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 220 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
Seite 306 - 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...
Seite 307 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Seite 51 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...