Historical View of the American Revolution1865 - 492 páginas |
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... peculiar error 440 An illustrative anecdote 441 As they conquered by perseverance , endurance and faith , so we must conquer by the same means 441 APPENDIX . Chronological outline American Colonial Trade of the Revolutionary ANALYSTS .
... peculiar error 440 An illustrative anecdote 441 As they conquered by perseverance , endurance and faith , so we must conquer by the same means 441 APPENDIX . Chronological outline American Colonial Trade of the Revolutionary ANALYSTS .
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... faith- ful to the best interests of America . - not yet come , and Therefore the Union that he asked for was a Union in honorable subjection to the crown , leav- ing the royal prerogative untouched , while it put the rights of the ...
... faith- ful to the best interests of America . - not yet come , and Therefore the Union that he asked for was a Union in honorable subjection to the crown , leav- ing the royal prerogative untouched , while it put the rights of the ...
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... faith was pledged for the pres- ervation of their rights . Seldom have such mo- mentous truths been compressed within so narrow a compass as the paragraph in which they remon- strate against the Stamp Act and Admiralty Act , contrasting ...
... faith was pledged for the pres- ervation of their rights . Seldom have such mo- mentous truths been compressed within so narrow a compass as the paragraph in which they remon- strate against the Stamp Act and Admiralty Act , contrasting ...
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... faith from which it sprang , had thought it necessary to explain and apologize to the New York Convention for its resolves against New York Tories . Congress called , but the States did not hear . The whole course of the war is marked ...
... faith from which it sprang , had thought it necessary to explain and apologize to the New York Convention for its resolves against New York Tories . Congress called , but the States did not hear . The whole course of the war is marked ...
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... faith had not faltered . They saw the necessity and accepted it , giving their goods and their labor unhesitatingly for a slip of paper which derived all its value from the resolves of a body of men who might , upon a reverse , be ...
... faith had not faltered . They saw the necessity and accepted it , giving their goods and their labor unhesitatingly for a slip of paper which derived all its value from the resolves of a body of men who might , upon a reverse , be ...
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Página 122 - Hampshire to call a full and free representation of the people, and that the representatives, if they think it necessary, establish such a form of government as, in their judgment, will best produce the happiness of the people, and most effectually secure peace and good order in the province, during the continuance of the present dispute between Great Britain and the colonies.
Página 442 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Página 442 - T is of the wave and not the rock ; T is but the flapping of the sail. And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears.
Página 342 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Página 254 - ... with the deepest concern, I am obliged to confess my want of confidence in the generality of the troops.
Página 99 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Página 73 - British colonies on this continent, to consult together on the present circumstances of the colonies, and the difficulties to which they are, and must be, reduced by the operation of the acts of Parliament for levying duties and taxes on the colonies ; and to consider of a general and united, dutiful, loyal, and humble representation of their condition to his majesty and to the Parliament, and to implore relief.
Página 435 - As stilly stole by a bold legion of horse, For Hale in the bush, for Hale in the bush. "Keep still !" said the thrush as she nestled her young, In a nest by the road; in a nest by the road. "For the tyrants are near, and with them appear What bodes us no good, what bodes us no good.
Página 363 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me a master of it.
Página 434 - A hundred men with each a pen, Or more upon my word, sir, It is most true would be too few, Their valor to record, sir.