History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... Votes of Congress ib . Blockade of Boston continued . 121 Washington's complaints ..... 122 Condition of the British troops .................. .. 123 Their preparations to re - embark .... 125 Their departure .... 126 A.D. Page 1776 ...
... Votes of Congress ib . Blockade of Boston continued . 121 Washington's complaints ..... 122 Condition of the British troops .................. .. 123 Their preparations to re - embark .... 125 Their departure .... 126 A.D. Page 1776 ...
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... votes of an exasperated majority in England , could any other deem itself secure ? Under these impressions they resolved at all hazards to make common cause with Massachusetts . The Royalists , now and henceforth called by their ...
... votes of an exasperated majority in England , could any other deem itself secure ? Under these impressions they resolved at all hazards to make common cause with Massachusetts . The Royalists , now and henceforth called by their ...
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... and prayer passed Such a vote without the was deemed a daring inroad The Barl of Dunmore , who at the on the very next day Jerson , edited by Ran- • LI . and in much wrath dissolved the Assembly. 12 HISTORY OF ENGLAND Proceedings in ...
... and prayer passed Such a vote without the was deemed a daring inroad The Barl of Dunmore , who at the on the very next day Jerson , edited by Ran- • LI . and in much wrath dissolved the Assembly. 12 HISTORY OF ENGLAND Proceedings in ...
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... vote of a Committee , or even the cry of a multitude , was deemed sufficient . * Nor was the number of the delegates uniform ; it varied in the several colonies from eight to two . This disparity , however , did not affect the votes ...
... vote of a Committee , or even the cry of a multitude , was deemed sufficient . * Nor was the number of the delegates uniform ; it varied in the several colonies from eight to two . This disparity , however , did not affect the votes ...
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... voted themselves a provincial Congress , and began to administer the affairs of the colony as though they had been legally convened . They entrusted the principal power to a select body of their own Members to be called the " Committee ...
... voted themselves a provincial Congress , and began to administer the affairs of the colony as though they had been legally convened . They entrusted the principal power to a select body of their own Members to be called the " Committee ...
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Page 31 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 72 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Page 74 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Page 458 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 51 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him — " Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 33 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Page 220 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
Page 306 - That God and nature put into our hands !' I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature ; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. — What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife...
Page 307 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Page 51 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...