The American Revolution, Part 1Longmans, Green, 1898 - Estados Unidos - Historia - Revolucion, 1775-1783 |
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... sides in the most fasci- nating , but by no means the least perilous , of controver- sies , was drawing to an appropriate close . The lovers who had braved the Court and the Prime Minister , and disobeyed angry parents in days when the ...
... sides in the most fasci- nating , but by no means the least perilous , of controver- sies , was drawing to an appropriate close . The lovers who had braved the Court and the Prime Minister , and disobeyed angry parents in days when the ...
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... side which he took in the squabbles and intrigues among which he had to shape his course at Westminster ; - these were men who had leisure for public affairs , who could influence their direction and their issue , and who had the ...
... side which he took in the squabbles and intrigues among which he had to shape his course at Westminster ; - these were men who had leisure for public affairs , who could influence their direction and their issue , and who had the ...
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... side to please men who contended for principle where he only sought an excuse for forcing his way into the centre of a faction fight . But when he had finally left the ranks of that Ministry against whose example their own attitude was ...
... side to please men who contended for principle where he only sought an excuse for forcing his way into the centre of a faction fight . But when he had finally left the ranks of that Ministry against whose example their own attitude was ...
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... side in the House of Commons he carried on the arduous and thankless work of opposition , were men whose com- panionship was an education in all that was right and becoming . Advising with Richmond on the draft of a protest in the Lords ...
... side in the House of Commons he carried on the arduous and thankless work of opposition , were men whose com- panionship was an education in all that was right and becoming . Advising with Richmond on the draft of a protest in the Lords ...
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... side he had espoused on the question whether an unlucky printer was to be sent to jail or committed to the charge of the Serjeant - at - Arms . But it mattered very much indeed that on the transcen- dent decision whether America was to ...
... side he had espoused on the question whether an unlucky printer was to be sent to jail or committed to the charge of the Serjeant - at - Arms . But it mattered very much indeed that on the transcen- dent decision whether America was to ...
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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.