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... fleet sailing under convoy . The fleetest sailers must wait for the dullest and slowest . Like a coach - and - six , the swiftest horses must be slack- ened , and the slowest quickened , that all may keep an even pace . " 2 Day by day ...
... fleet sailing under convoy . The fleetest sailers must wait for the dullest and slowest . Like a coach - and - six , the swiftest horses must be slack- ened , and the slowest quickened , that all may keep an even pace . " 2 Day by day ...
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... fleet aroused not only Virginians but all America to a great heat of passion . When this news reached Washington at Boston , ' there came with it a pamphlet , just issued at Philadelphia , called " Common Sense , " a firebrand which set ...
... fleet aroused not only Virginians but all America to a great heat of passion . When this news reached Washington at Boston , ' there came with it a pamphlet , just issued at Philadelphia , called " Common Sense , " a firebrand which set ...
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... fleet attacked the fort , and all day ( June 28 , 1776 ) poured cannon - balls into the loose sand or yielding palmetto , but did little harm , while the slow , careful fire of the defenders swept the British decks with frightful ...
... fleet attacked the fort , and all day ( June 28 , 1776 ) poured cannon - balls into the loose sand or yielding palmetto , but did little harm , while the slow , careful fire of the defenders swept the British decks with frightful ...
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... fleets , while the failure of the Canadian expedition left the state now open to invasion from the north . The Indians , too , were a menace on the frontier . Every material consideration , in fact , seemed to warn New York to avoid the ...
... fleets , while the failure of the Canadian expedition left the state now open to invasion from the north . The Indians , too , were a menace on the frontier . Every material consideration , in fact , seemed to warn New York to avoid the ...
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... fleets and armies . Her kings are the umpire of our disputes and the 1 Force , Am . Archives , 4th series , III . , 1916 ; Journals of Con- gress , June 7 , 1776 , also June 10 . 2 ' Force , Am . Archives , 5th series , I. , Index ...
... fleets and armies . Her kings are the umpire of our disputes and the 1 Force , Am . Archives , 4th series , III . , 1916 ; Journals of Con- gress , June 7 , 1776 , also June 10 . 2 ' Force , Am . Archives , 5th series , I. , Index ...
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Page 77 - 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.
Page 142 - 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.
Page 123 - ... 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.
Page 144 - 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...
Page 136 - 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...
Page 323 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 140 - 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.
Page 231 - 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.
Page 42 - 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.
Page 188 - 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.