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... forces requested , that he might be able to carry out the wishes of the house . Besides this avowal of determined hostility , bills were introduced to suspend the foreign trade of all the New England states , and restrict the trade of ...
... forces requested , that he might be able to carry out the wishes of the house . Besides this avowal of determined hostility , bills were introduced to suspend the foreign trade of all the New England states , and restrict the trade of ...
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... force or threats our proportional con- tributions for the common defence ; when all know , and themselves acknowledge , we have fully contributed when- ever called upon to do so in the character of freemen . We are of opinion that it is ...
... force or threats our proportional con- tributions for the common defence ; when all know , and themselves acknowledge , we have fully contributed when- ever called upon to do so in the character of freemen . We are of opinion that it is ...
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... force concentrated in Boston and the vicinity , amounted to nearly ten thou- With these the raw levies of the Americans , scattered over a wide range of country , might easily have been dispersed ; but the British generals , from some ...
... force concentrated in Boston and the vicinity , amounted to nearly ten thou- With these the raw levies of the Americans , scattered over a wide range of country , might easily have been dispersed ; but the British generals , from some ...
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... force until a reconciliation with Great Britain should be effected , on the basis of the petition sent to the king ... forces to uphold 36 GEORGE WASHINGTON . their authority ; indeed , a.
... force until a reconciliation with Great Britain should be effected , on the basis of the petition sent to the king ... forces to uphold 36 GEORGE WASHINGTON . their authority ; indeed , a.
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... forces . The Washingtons appear to have emigrated to America about the middle of the seventeenth century , and settled in the colony of Virginia . George was born February 22nd , 1732 , near the banks of the Potomac , in Westmoreland ...
... forces . The Washingtons appear to have emigrated to America about the middle of the seventeenth century , and settled in the colony of Virginia . George was born February 22nd , 1732 , near the banks of the Potomac , in Westmoreland ...
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Seite 37 - As to pay, Sir, 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. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Seite 486 - Why should ye be stricken any more ? ye will revolt more and more : the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Seite 15 - They planted by your care! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny, to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable, and, among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Seite 502 - Come forth out of thy royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth ! put on the visible robes of thy imperial majesty, take up that unlimited sceptre which thy almighty Father hath bequeathed thee ; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee, and all creatures sigh to be renewed.
Seite 368 - Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect.
Seite 475 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Seite 405 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Seite 205 - For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Seite 400 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Seite 37 - But, lest some unlucky event should happen unfavourable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every Gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.