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... hundred thousand copies . Paine himself got none of the proceeds of the sale , and , though he was glorified for the time , he lived to be hooted years later by an American mob as he drove past placards showing the devil flying away ...
... hundred thousand copies . Paine himself got none of the proceeds of the sale , and , though he was glorified for the time , he lived to be hooted years later by an American mob as he drove past placards showing the devil flying away ...
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... hundred men , he had already urged that the British troops be sent to co - operate with the loyal citizens in overthrowing the rebellion . Accordingly , Sir Henry Clinton left Boston in December , 1775 , planning to meet Sir Peter ...
... hundred men , he had already urged that the British troops be sent to co - operate with the loyal citizens in overthrowing the rebellion . Accordingly , Sir Henry Clinton left Boston in December , 1775 , planning to meet Sir Peter ...
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... hundred , ' which in May of 1775 issued a call for a Provincial Congress , which was expected to usurp all the power of the lawful assembly and to direct " the measures for the com- mon safety . " Like the frogs in the fable , as a Tory ...
... hundred , ' which in May of 1775 issued a call for a Provincial Congress , which was expected to usurp all the power of the lawful assembly and to direct " the measures for the com- mon safety . " Like the frogs in the fable , as a Tory ...
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... hundred officers and men , and each army lost between four and five hundred killed and wounded . The battle of Long Island was for the Americans a complete defeat , a foregone result , due to several causes , but chiefly to the ...
... hundred officers and men , and each army lost between four and five hundred killed and wounded . The battle of Long Island was for the Americans a complete defeat , a foregone result , due to several causes , but chiefly to the ...
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... hundred of the best American troops.2 This was one of the severest blows suffered by the American army during the war . Washington now had but six thousand troops on the Jersey side of the Hudson , and Lee was ordered to bring over his ...
... hundred of the best American troops.2 This was one of the severest blows suffered by the American army during the war . Washington now had but six thousand troops on the Jersey side of the Hudson , and Lee was ordered to bring over his ...
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Seite 83 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Seite 129 - ... deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Seite 150 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage...
Seite 142 - The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life...
Seite 237 - For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.
Seite 148 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of Magistrate, Legislator, or Judge, to be hereditary.
Seite 91 - Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: We always had governed ourselves, and we always meant to. They didn't mean we should.
Seite 146 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Seite 48 - Such a dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another, in this great change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again.
Seite 194 - I confess I dread their overruling influence in council; I dread their low cunning, and those levelling principles which men without character and without fortune in general possess, which are so captivating to the lower class of mankind, and which will occasion such a fluctuation of property as to introduce the greatest disorder.