History of the American Revolution: With a Preliminary View of the Character and Principles of the Colonists, and Their Controversies with Great BritainCushing & sons, 1834 - 372 Seiten |
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... nature . But theirs were solitary and partial efforts in advance of the intelligence of the age . The institutions , which sprung from their success , designed to secure the rights wrested by force from the hands of tyrants , lacked the ...
... nature . But theirs were solitary and partial efforts in advance of the intelligence of the age . The institutions , which sprung from their success , designed to secure the rights wrested by force from the hands of tyrants , lacked the ...
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... nature progressive , all must advance together . The effect upon other nations , has not been less dissimilar . Astonishment and admiration and sympathy soon ripened into zeal to imitate , as the success of American example in self ...
... nature progressive , all must advance together . The effect upon other nations , has not been less dissimilar . Astonishment and admiration and sympathy soon ripened into zeal to imitate , as the success of American example in self ...
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... nature , and suited to their new position , and improved understanding of their rights . Thus was a peculiar people trained up to habits of independence , and experience of the benefits and usages of liberty , under circumstances more ...
... nature , and suited to their new position , and improved understanding of their rights . Thus was a peculiar people trained up to habits of independence , and experience of the benefits and usages of liberty , under circumstances more ...
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... nature , were both to be encountered and overthrown , before the beneficent influences of civilization could be made to reach the mass of the community , and elevate them . The thirst for power and booty was the ruling passion of the ...
... nature , were both to be encountered and overthrown , before the beneficent influences of civilization could be made to reach the mass of the community , and elevate them . The thirst for power and booty was the ruling passion of the ...
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... nature , than the baser pas- sions of pride and ambition , with which they were mingled . It is not to be denied , that in those days , the multitude were incapable of government , or of any useful use of their faculties , in judging of ...
... nature , than the baser pas- sions of pride and ambition , with which they were mingled . It is not to be denied , that in those days , the multitude were incapable of government , or of any useful use of their faculties , in judging of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite 150 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 114 - I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
Seite 146 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Seite 153 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Seite 73 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 151 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind. Enemies in war, in Peace Friends.
Seite 73 - They submitted willingly to the government of the crown, and paid, in their courts, obedience to the acts of Parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons, or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expense only of a little pen, ink, and paper ; they were led by a thread.
Seite 59 - YOUR indulgence! — they grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was. exercised in sending persons to rule them...
Seite 120 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Seite 145 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.