The History of England, Band 2A. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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Seite ix
... attack on Quebec - Retreat of the Americans -Affair of captain Forster , and bad conduct of the Americans- Vigorous measures taken by general Carleton to expel them from his province - Failure of an attack on the British by general ...
... attack on Quebec - Retreat of the Americans -Affair of captain Forster , and bad conduct of the Americans- Vigorous measures taken by general Carleton to expel them from his province - Failure of an attack on the British by general ...
Seite x
... attack and capture of New York - Washington's retreat - Action at White Plains - Capture of Fort Washington - Washington retreats behind the Delaware -Capture of general Lee - Acts of the congress - State of the American army ...
... attack and capture of New York - Washington's retreat - Action at White Plains - Capture of Fort Washington - Washington retreats behind the Delaware -Capture of general Lee - Acts of the congress - State of the American army ...
Seite xi
... Attacked by general Arnold -Repulse the enemy , but lose 600 men - Ill effects of this action -Burgoyne fortifies ... attacks his antagonists , but suffers loss - Burgoyne is surrounded on all sides -- Capitu- lates to general Gates ...
... Attacked by general Arnold -Repulse the enemy , but lose 600 men - Ill effects of this action -Burgoyne fortifies ... attacks his antagonists , but suffers loss - Burgoyne is surrounded on all sides -- Capitu- lates to general Gates ...
Seite 5
... defying her authority . Two parties in opposition were ready to seize every opportunity of attack ; the one headed by the cool and cautious Grenville , the other led on and inspired by the vivid eloquence of A.D. 1767 . 5 GEORGE III .
... defying her authority . Two parties in opposition were ready to seize every opportunity of attack ; the one headed by the cool and cautious Grenville , the other led on and inspired by the vivid eloquence of A.D. 1767 . 5 GEORGE III .
Seite 27
... attack on the Mansion - house . The administration , however , which was so inert when Wilkes made his first appearance , now began to act with vigor , when this alone was wanting to increase the popular fury , and drive faction to its ...
... attack on the Mansion - house . The administration , however , which was so inert when Wilkes made his first appearance , now began to act with vigor , when this alone was wanting to increase the popular fury , and drive faction to its ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 192 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Seite 339 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
Seite 338 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 192 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Seite 43 - Majesty's servants, at the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mr. Wilkes and at the expense of the Constitution...
Seite 190 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Seite 191 - My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right or grant as matter of favor, is, to admit the people of our colonies into an interest in the Constitution, and, by recording that admission in the...
Seite 177 - Their situation is truly unworthy, penned up— pining in inglorious inactivity. They are an army of impotence. You may call them an army of safety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt; and, to make the folly equal to the disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation.
Seite 134 - I know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies...
Seite 180 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.