History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America..N. Whiting, 1837 - United States |
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... enemy , some- times complaining that he had occupied lands appertaining to them , sometimes themselves invading or ... enemies , wearied , worsted , and having lost all hopes of vie- tory , accepted the conditions of the peace of Paris ...
... enemy , some- times complaining that he had occupied lands appertaining to them , sometimes themselves invading or ... enemies , wearied , worsted , and having lost all hopes of vie- tory , accepted the conditions of the peace of Paris ...
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... enemy with so much gio- ry , found themselves degraded into so many tide - waiters and bailiff's of the revenue . The most deplorable effects soon resulted from it ; the naval commanders , little conversant with the regulations of the ...
... enemy with so much gio- ry , found themselves degraded into so many tide - waiters and bailiff's of the revenue . The most deplorable effects soon resulted from it ; the naval commanders , little conversant with the regulations of the ...
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... enemy upon the American con- tinent ; whence , therefore , these continual apprehensions of an at- tack , when the vestige of an enemy is no where to be seen ? And VOL . 1 . 4⭑ what necessity was there for maintaining an army in ...
... enemy upon the American con- tinent ; whence , therefore , these continual apprehensions of an at- tack , when the vestige of an enemy is no where to be seen ? And VOL . 1 . 4⭑ what necessity was there for maintaining an army in ...
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... enemy , or to advance their domestic prosperity , have not the most ample subsidies been grant- ed them without hesitation ? " Independently of these benefits , what other state has ever ex- tended to a part of its population this ...
... enemy , or to advance their domestic prosperity , have not the most ample subsidies been grant- ed them without hesitation ? " Independently of these benefits , what other state has ever ex- tended to a part of its population this ...
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... enemy's country , than taxing of Englishmen for their own public benefit ; that it would be treating them as a conquered people , and not as true British subjects . That a tax laid by the representatives of the colonies might be easily ...
... enemy's country , than taxing of Englishmen for their own public benefit ; that it would be treating them as a conquered people , and not as true British subjects . That a tax laid by the representatives of the colonies might be easily ...
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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.