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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... secure and solid basis the rights they claimed , excited , in the bosoms of that inflexible people , apprehensions of a much more serious nature than would have been created by any conflict with which they could be threatened . This ...
... secure and solid basis the rights they claimed , excited , in the bosoms of that inflexible people , apprehensions of a much more serious nature than would have been created by any conflict with which they could be threatened . This ...
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... secure the dependence of the colonies upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain . The temper , both of the house and of the nation , was now entirely favourable to the high handed system of coercion proposed by minis- ters , and ...
... secure the dependence of the colonies upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain . The temper , both of the house and of the nation , was now entirely favourable to the high handed system of coercion proposed by minis- ters , and ...
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... secure │for trial such as should be in any manner guilty of them . But the time when the proclamations of governors were to be attended to had passed away , and the penalties in the power of the committee of correspondence were much ...
... secure │for trial such as should be in any manner guilty of them . But the time when the proclamations of governors were to be attended to had passed away , and the penalties in the power of the committee of correspondence were much ...
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... secure the liberties of the colonies , and to restore the harmony formerly subsisting between them and their mother country . In some instances , the powers given appeared to contemplate only such measures as would operate on the ...
... secure the liberties of the colonies , and to restore the harmony formerly subsisting between them and their mother country . In some instances , the powers given appeared to contemplate only such measures as would operate on the ...
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... secure a pious and gallant nation from the popery and despotism of a superstitious and inexorable tyrant . Your majesty , we are confident , justly rejoices that your title to the crown is thus founded on the title of your people to ...
... secure a pious and gallant nation from the popery and despotism of a superstitious and inexorable tyrant . Your majesty , we are confident , justly rejoices that your title to the crown is thus founded on the title of your people to ...
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