Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America, Or, An Attempt to Collect and Preserve Some of the Speeches, Orations, & Proceedings ; with Sketches and Remarks on Men and Things, and Other Fugitive Or Neglected Pieces, Belonging to the Men of the Revolutionary Period in the United States ... |
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... consider the unhappy condition to which you and your American brethren are reduced ! when we reflect that , for near ten months past , you have been deprived of any share in your own government , and of those advantages , which flow to ...
... consider the unhappy condition to which you and your American brethren are reduced ! when we reflect that , for near ten months past , you have been deprived of any share in your own government , and of those advantages , which flow to ...
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... consider arms as the only arbiters by which every dis- pute is to be decided between contending states ; they are instructed implicitly to obey their commanders , without enquiring into the justice of the cause they are engaged to sup ...
... consider arms as the only arbiters by which every dis- pute is to be decided between contending states ; they are instructed implicitly to obey their commanders , without enquiring into the justice of the cause they are engaged to sup ...
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... consider his just plea for the enjoyment of his earnings , as the effect of pride and stubborn opposition to the parent country . Whilst the American beholds the Briton , as the ruffian , ready first to take away his property , and next ...
... consider his just plea for the enjoyment of his earnings , as the effect of pride and stubborn opposition to the parent country . Whilst the American beholds the Briton , as the ruffian , ready first to take away his property , and next ...
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... consider their consequences in that part of the world , in whose affairs we take a more in - rid sound of arms , execrations , and vengeance , teresting part . It is easy to conceive that those men who would not scruple to make use of ...
... consider their consequences in that part of the world , in whose affairs we take a more in - rid sound of arms , execrations , and vengeance , teresting part . It is easy to conceive that those men who would not scruple to make use of ...
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... consider how remote they were from those vices which have been preva- lent in powerful monarchies , and how carefully they watched the sacred altar of freedom , that they themselves must remain a standing monu- ment of the consequences ...
... consider how remote they were from those vices which have been preva- lent in powerful monarchies , and how carefully they watched the sacred altar of freedom , that they themselves must remain a standing monu- ment of the consequences ...
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