The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled Under the Inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington, from Original Papers ... to which is Prefixed, an Introduction, Containing a Compendious View of the Colonies Planted by the English on the Continent of North America, from Their Settlement to the Commencement of that War which Terminated in Their Independence, Band 2C.P. Wayne., 1804 |
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... hope not rather let a full representation of the matter go to his majesty : let him know how grossly his glory and interests , and the public money have been prostituted . ” Colonel Washington was soon afterwards ordered to Raystown ...
... hope not rather let a full representation of the matter go to his majesty : let him know how grossly his glory and interests , and the public money have been prostituted . ” Colonel Washington was soon afterwards ordered to Raystown ...
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... hope that the other provinces might be deterred from involving themselves in her dangers , made no impression on the colonists in any degree favourable to the views of the mother country . Their resolution to resist the exercise of the ...
... hope that the other provinces might be deterred from involving themselves in her dangers , made no impression on the colonists in any degree favourable to the views of the mother country . Their resolution to resist the exercise of the ...
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... hope that petitions and memorials would alone effect the object for which they contended . The proceedings of the house of burgesses of Vir- ginia , which took place very soon after the in- telligence of those resolutions and that ...
... hope that petitions and memorials would alone effect the object for which they contended . The proceedings of the house of burgesses of Vir- ginia , which took place very soon after the in- telligence of those resolutions and that ...
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... hope that their cause was gaining strength in Britain had no tendency to remove the ground of con- Their opposition had been founded on the conviction , that the right to tax them was vested exclusively in themselves ; and while this ...
... hope that their cause was gaining strength in Britain had no tendency to remove the ground of con- Their opposition had been founded on the conviction , that the right to tax them was vested exclusively in themselves ; and while this ...
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... the restriction only of such articles as should be dutiable . On the remon- strances of other commercial places , especially of Boston , these resolutions were changed , and 1769 . the hope was entertained , that the general 140 THE LIFE ...
... the restriction only of such articles as should be dutiable . On the remon- strances of other commercial places , especially of Boston , these resolutions were changed , and 1769 . the hope was entertained , that the general 140 THE LIFE ...
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