History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America..N. Whiting, 1837 - United States |
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... colonists . Seeds of discontent between the two people . Plan of colonial government proposed by the colonists . Other motives of discontent in America . Justification of ministers . Designs and instigations of the French . All the ...
... colonists . Seeds of discontent between the two people . Plan of colonial government proposed by the colonists . Other motives of discontent in America . Justification of ministers . Designs and instigations of the French . All the ...
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... colonists , exercised also a certain portion of his power . To this was added the trial , which is called by jury , not only in criminal matters , but also in civil causes ; an institution highly important , and coresponding entirely ...
... colonists , exercised also a certain portion of his power . To this was added the trial , which is called by jury , not only in criminal matters , but also in civil causes ; an institution highly important , and coresponding entirely ...
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... colonists had supported these prin- ciples ; and how should they have renounced them ? they who , out of the reach of royal authority , and , though still in the infancy of a scarcely yet organized society , enjoyed already , in their ...
... colonists had supported these prin- ciples ; and how should they have renounced them ? they who , out of the reach of royal authority , and , though still in the infancy of a scarcely yet organized society , enjoyed already , in their ...
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... colonists so honorable , death , formed the continual subject of the conversations of children with the authors of their days . If , before the revolution , the portrait of the king was usually seen in every house , it was not rare to ...
... colonists so honorable , death , formed the continual subject of the conversations of children with the authors of their days . If , before the revolution , the portrait of the king was usually seen in every house , it was not rare to ...
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... colonists had few books ; but the greater part of those , which were in the hands of all , only treated of political affairs , or transmitted the history of the persecu- tions sustained by the Puritans , their ancestors . They found in ...
... colonists had few books ; but the greater part of those , which were in the hands of all , only treated of political affairs , or transmitted the history of the persecu- tions sustained by the Puritans , their ancestors . They found in ...
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HIST OF THE WAR OF THE INDEPEN Carlo 1766-1837 Botta,George Alexander 1781-1863 Otis No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 92 - America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 144 - ... on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have for the present only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures: 1.
Page 228 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. With an humble confidence in the mercies of...
Page 227 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Page 359 - Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross DELAWARE Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas M'Kean MARYLAND Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll, of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Page 55 - Britain can the consumption of foreign superfluities) our whole wealth centers finally amongst the merchants and inhabitants of Britain ; and if we make them richer, and enable them better to pay their taxes, it is nearly the same as being taxed ourselves, and equally beneficial to the crown.
Page 49 - A member of parliament, chosen for any borough, represents not only the constituents and inhabitants of that particular place, but he represents the inhabitants of every other borough in Great Britain. He represents the city of London, and all...
Page 91 - When, therefore, in this house we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do ? We your majesty's commons for Great Britain give and grant to your majesty, what ? Our own property ? No.
Page 51 - 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...
Page 93 - A great deal has been said without doors, of the power, of the strength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.