Historical View of the American RevolutionTicknor & Fields, 1865 - 459 páginas |
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... passing as a part of their legacy to their children . Will not history say that wise statesmanship should have foreseen this as a logical sequence , and consistent Christianity should recognize it as the act of that divine justice which ...
... passing as a part of their legacy to their children . Will not history say that wise statesmanship should have foreseen this as a logical sequence , and consistent Christianity should recognize it as the act of that divine justice which ...
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... passed to give them a proper distance , and show the extent and variety of their ramifications , take their place among the decisive epochs of civilization . When the thirteen Colonies of Great Britain dissolved their connection with ...
... passed to give them a proper distance , and show the extent and variety of their ramifications , take their place among the decisive epochs of civilization . When the thirteen Colonies of Great Britain dissolved their connection with ...
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... passed so rapidly that the keenest eye was unable to see what a mighty work they were doing , — all this was changed radically and forever . The thirteen Colonies became thirteen United States , with a name and a flag , and allies , and ...
... passed so rapidly that the keenest eye was unable to see what a mighty work they were doing , — all this was changed radically and forever . The thirteen Colonies became thirteen United States , with a name and a flag , and allies , and ...
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... passed for villages . These colonists had no wish to dissolve their legal connection with England . Reverence for law and precedent , as I have already hinted , was a national characteristic ; an inborn sense which they had inherited ...
... passed for villages . These colonists had no wish to dissolve their legal connection with England . Reverence for law and precedent , as I have already hinted , was a national characteristic ; an inborn sense which they had inherited ...
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... passed in 1660 ; in 1763 it had woven its toils around Amer- ican enterprise in twenty - nine separate acts , each breathing its spirit and enforcing its claims . It is not difficult to imagine the feelings with which these acts were ...
... passed in 1660 ; in 1763 it had woven its toils around Amer- ican enterprise in twenty - nine separate acts , each breathing its spirit and enforcing its claims . It is not difficult to imagine the feelings with which these acts were ...
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Página 442 - 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 121 - 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 87 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Página 427 - No rogue e'er felt the halter draw with good opinion of the law.
Página 342 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
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 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...
Página 363 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...
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 - The brave captain heard it, and thought of his home In a cot by the brook; in a cot by the brook. With mother and sister and memories dear, He so gayly forsook; he so gayly forsook.