The American Revolution, Part 1Longmans, Green, 1898 - Estados Unidos - Historia - Revolucion, 1775-1783 |
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... knew what it was to be ashamed of that which at the time he was engaged in . For when Charles Fox became ashamed of any- thing , he left off doing it . The communications which passed between him and his cronies , during the period when ...
... knew what it was to be ashamed of that which at the time he was engaged in . For when Charles Fox became ashamed of any- thing , he left off doing it . The communications which passed between him and his cronies , during the period when ...
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... knew no truce , each of them robbed and injured himself , and himself only . It is true that , if money had to be raised , and a name was wanted on a bill , none of them would scruple to make a request which , for a friend to refuse a ...
... knew no truce , each of them robbed and injured himself , and himself only . It is true that , if money had to be raised , and a name was wanted on a bill , none of them would scruple to make a request which , for a friend to refuse a ...
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... knew him would have believed him capable . Good resolutions are ill to keep in bad company ; and it would have gone hard with the young man's aspirations after better things if he had not cut himself adrift from the reckless official ...
... knew him would have believed him capable . Good resolutions are ill to keep in bad company ; and it would have gone hard with the young man's aspirations after better things if he had not cut himself adrift from the reckless official ...
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... knew that the worst would come . They addressed a circular letter to the other representative Assemblies on the American conti- nent , urging them to take such steps , within the limits . of the Constitution , as would strengthen the ...
... knew that the worst would come . They addressed a circular letter to the other representative Assemblies on the American conti- nent , urging them to take such steps , within the limits . of the Constitution , as would strengthen the ...
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... knew what advice was expected of them . The Bedfords carried the day , and Shelburne resigned office . Early in October , 1768 , eight ships of war lay in Boston harbour . Their loaded broadsides commanded a line of wharves a great deal ...
... knew what advice was expected of them . The Bedfords carried the day , and Shelburne resigned office . Early in October , 1768 , eight ships of war lay in Boston harbour . Their loaded broadsides commanded a line of wharves a great deal ...
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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.