The American Revolution, Part 1Longmans, Green, 1898 - Estados Unidos - Historia - Revolucion, 1775-1783 |
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Page vii
... Forces in British Politics which worked against a Permanent Reconciliation Fall of Rockingham ; Townshend's Custom Duties Protests from America ; their Reception by the Government Troops sent to Boston . Causes of the Want of ...
... Forces in British Politics which worked against a Permanent Reconciliation Fall of Rockingham ; Townshend's Custom Duties Protests from America ; their Reception by the Government Troops sent to Boston . Causes of the Want of ...
Page xii
... Force 369 He undertakes the Formation of a Continental Army Conduct of the Connecticut Militia ; Want of Arms and Ammunition . Impatience of the Country ; Washington's Firmness The Ranks of the Continental Army begin to fill Capture of ...
... Force 369 He undertakes the Formation of a Continental Army Conduct of the Connecticut Militia ; Want of Arms and Ammunition . Impatience of the Country ; Washington's Firmness The Ranks of the Continental Army begin to fill Capture of ...
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... force , wit , and spirit , the best made no professions of virtue , and had a very easy standard of practice ; and not a few were as competent preceptors in evil as ever called a main or pushed a bottle . The most decent and respectable ...
... force , wit , and spirit , the best made no professions of virtue , and had a very easy standard of practice ; and not a few were as competent preceptors in evil as ever called a main or pushed a bottle . The most decent and respectable ...
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... forces able to make good a resistance which they themselves , at any personal hazard what- ever , were resolved to offer . They hoped little from the people . Even if the public at large had been awake to what was going on , and had ...
... forces able to make good a resistance which they themselves , at any personal hazard what- ever , were resolved to offer . They hoped little from the people . Even if the public at large had been awake to what was going on , and had ...
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... forces which work for the improvement of character the most powerful is the pursuit of an object of a nature to tax all the faculties , and fix them over a long period in one continuous strain of exertion . Such an object awaited ...
... forces which work for the improvement of character the most powerful is the pursuit of an object of a nature to tax all the faculties , and fix them over a long period in one continuous strain of exertion . Such an object awaited ...
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Page 204 - We will neither import nor purchase, any slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Page 80 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone thro
Page 102 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 203 - Powel's with and many others; a most sinful feast again! everything which could delight the eye or allure the taste; curds and creams, jellies, sweetmeats of various sorts, twenty sorts of tarts, fools, trifles, floating islands, whipped sillibub &c., &c. Parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer, etc.
Page 102 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 60 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 206 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 343 - It is very diverting to walk among the camps. They are as different in their form as the owners are in their dress ; and every tent is a portraiture of the temper and taste of the persons who encamp in it. Some are made of boards and some of sailcloth ; some partly of one and partly of the other. Again, others are made of stone and turf, brick or brush ; some are thrown up in a hurry ; others curiously wrought with doors and windows, done with wreaths and withes in the manner of a basket.
Page 379 - Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign — which is twenty thousand pounds a head; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground, half of which she lost again by our taking post on Ploughed Hill. During the same time ,wjv sixty thousand children have been born in America. From these data, his mathematical head will easily calculate the •••• ' time and expense necessary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory.
Page 193 - When I see, that all petitions and complaints of grievances are so odious to government, that even the mere pipe which conveys them becomes obnoxious, I am at a loss to know how peace and union are to be maintained or restored between the different parts of the empire.