History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Band 6J. Murray, 1858 |
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... received , and recommending the whole matter to the most serious consideration of both Houses . On the 14th of the same month Lord North brought in the measure commonly known by the name of the Boston Port Bill . The preamble declared ...
... received , and recommending the whole matter to the most serious consideration of both Houses . On the 14th of the same month Lord North brought in the measure commonly known by the name of the Boston Port Bill . The preamble declared ...
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... received an adverse Address even from the merchants and freeholders of Salem , commiserating the fate of Boston , and declining to raise their fortunes on the ruin of their neighbours . Other Resolutions be- tokening in their terms no ...
... received an adverse Address even from the merchants and freeholders of Salem , commiserating the fate of Boston , and declining to raise their fortunes on the ruin of their neighbours . Other Resolutions be- tokening in their terms no ...
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... received large reinforcements had now under his command in Massachusetts no less than six regiments with a train of artillery . These troops for the most part he encamped on the Common close to Boston ; and desertion becoming frequent ...
... received large reinforcements had now under his command in Massachusetts no less than six regiments with a train of artillery . These troops for the most part he encamped on the Common close to Boston ; and desertion becoming frequent ...
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... members thus chosen contrary to law " were very readily received into Con- gress . " ( Life of Washington , note to vol . ii . p . 157. ed . 1805. ) variety ; some being couched in moderate , some in 1774 . 13 CONGRESS AT PHILADELPHIA .
... members thus chosen contrary to law " were very readily received into Con- gress . " ( Life of Washington , note to vol . ii . p . 157. ed . 1805. ) variety ; some being couched in moderate , some in 1774 . 13 CONGRESS AT PHILADELPHIA .
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Band 3 Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Band 3 Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Band 3 Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acts Address afterwards American Archives appeared appointed arms army Arnold Assembly Bill Boston Britain Bunker's Hill Burgoyne Burke called Canada Captain chief civil Clinton Colonel Colonies command Congress Correspondence Council Crown declared deemed defence despatched Duke of Grafton Earl enemy England English ensued favour Fayette feeling fire force France Franklin French friends Gage Government Governor honour hope House of Commons House of Lords ington Jared Sparks King King's land late least less letter Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Dartmouth Lord John Cavendish Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne Majesty March Massachusetts measure ment Militia Ministers months never observed occasion officers opposite Parliament party passed peace period persons Philadelphia President province rank received Reed repeal Resolutions Royal says sent ships side Silas Deane soldiers Sparks Sparks's speech spirit tion town treaty vote Washington whole words Writings York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 60 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
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 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 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 329 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
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 320 - My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.
Seite 34 - 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!
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!