A History of the American Revolution: Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Հատոր 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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... arms ... Pe- tition to the King ... the answer of Lord Dartmouth ... Proceed- ings of the Congress ... Dr . Franklin made Post Master Gene- ral ... Colonial convention ... Lord Dunmore's conduct ... Design of Connolly frustrated ...
... arms ... Pe- tition to the King ... the answer of Lord Dartmouth ... Proceed- ings of the Congress ... Dr . Franklin made Post Master Gene- ral ... Colonial convention ... Lord Dunmore's conduct ... Design of Connolly frustrated ...
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... when entreaty and remon- strance gave place to debate and altercation , and these last to an appeal to arms , we should discover that our Declaration of Independence , contains but a small ca- talogue AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 5.
... when entreaty and remon- strance gave place to debate and altercation , and these last to an appeal to arms , we should discover that our Declaration of Independence , contains but a small ca- talogue AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 5.
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... rulers across the Atlantick were born to power and eminence . All the splendour by which these rulers were invested , all the rank , titles , • : arms , escutcheons , and paraphernalia of nobility 14 AMERICAN REVOLUTION .
... rulers across the Atlantick were born to power and eminence . All the splendour by which these rulers were invested , all the rank , titles , • : arms , escutcheons , and paraphernalia of nobility 14 AMERICAN REVOLUTION .
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... arms , escutcheons , and paraphernalia of nobility , were held by the Colonists as so many demands up- on their pockets , as something for which the nation was compelled to pay , without receiving any other equiva- lent than the ...
... arms , escutcheons , and paraphernalia of nobility , were held by the Colonists as so many demands up- on their pockets , as something for which the nation was compelled to pay , without receiving any other equiva- lent than the ...
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... arm of justice - So cold , so comfortless , so ungracious , was the prospect afforded of a Parliamenta- ry redress of our grievances either national , or individu- al . The English Ministry were sensible of all the ad- vantages which ...
... arm of justice - So cold , so comfortless , so ungracious , was the prospect afforded of a Parliamenta- ry redress of our grievances either national , or individu- al . The English Ministry were sensible of all the ad- vantages which ...
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Էջ 252 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Էջ 69 - LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest seats of justice, some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a Court of Justice in their own.
Էջ 89 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Էջ 211 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Էջ 252 - I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Էջ 209 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Էջ 348 - He has excited Domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Էջ 211 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Էջ 72 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what taxes the people are able to bear, and the easiest mode of raising them, and are equally affected by such taxes themselves, is the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom, and without which the ancient constitution cannot subsist.
Էջ 208 - An Act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time, as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...