History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783, Band 6Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... afterwards ensued , that there was then a general tendency at home to undervalue and contemn the people of the Colonies . They , and more especially the natives of New England , were often called by the name of YANKEES , which had grown ...
... afterwards ensued , that there was then a general tendency at home to undervalue and contemn the people of the Colonies . They , and more especially the natives of New England , were often called by the name of YANKEES , which had grown ...
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... afterwards has left a curious and authentic account of their proceedings at this time . " What we did , " says he , " was with the help " of Rushworth , whom we rummaged over for the Re- volutionary precedents and forms of the Puritans ...
... afterwards has left a curious and authentic account of their proceedings at this time . " What we did , " says he , " was with the help " of Rushworth , whom we rummaged over for the Re- volutionary precedents and forms of the Puritans ...
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... afterwards , seeing the necessity of keeping the soldiers separate from the people , he began to fortify that neck of land , and also to build temporary barracks . As the time approached for the general muster of the Militia he deemed ...
... afterwards , seeing the necessity of keeping the soldiers separate from the people , he began to fortify that neck of land , and also to build temporary barracks . As the time approached for the general muster of the Militia he deemed ...
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... afterwards Adjutant General to Washington , write as follows to Lord Dartmouth : " Believe me , my Lord , no King ever had more loyal subjects , or any country more affectionate Colonists , than the Americans WERE . " I who am but a ...
... afterwards Adjutant General to Washington , write as follows to Lord Dartmouth : " Believe me , my Lord , no King ever had more loyal subjects , or any country more affectionate Colonists , than the Americans WERE . " I who am but a ...
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... afterwards followed both by other Colonies and by the Congress , and at a later period by the COMITÉS DU SALUT PUBLIC in France . * Above all they drew up a plan for their defence ; they provided ammunition and stores for twelve ...
... afterwards followed both by other Colonies and by the Congress , and at a later period by the COMITÉS DU SALUT PUBLIC in France . * Above all they drew up a plan for their defence ; they provided ammunition and stores for twelve ...
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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 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 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 21 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Seite 263 - ... the peerage more than I do ; — but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more, I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament, as speaker of this right...
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 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 — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering...
Seite 34 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it...
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 23 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.