A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Volume 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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... given to those chartered rights a new name . The People now speak in their collective majes- ty , where a Monarch , in his individual majesty , former- ly spoke ; and the lips of both utter precisely the same sentiments - so false was ...
... given to those chartered rights a new name . The People now speak in their collective majes- ty , where a Monarch , in his individual majesty , former- ly spoke ; and the lips of both utter precisely the same sentiments - so false was ...
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... given to the truth of his nar- ration , or reliance placed on the soundness of his judgment . If , like Bishop Burnett , he is the recor- der of events , in which he was , himself , a conspicu- ous actor , he may naturally be supposed ...
... given to the truth of his nar- ration , or reliance placed on the soundness of his judgment . If , like Bishop Burnett , he is the recor- der of events , in which he was , himself , a conspicu- ous actor , he may naturally be supposed ...
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... given them , by the fiat of an earthly sovereign . Bred up , as our ancestors were , to a free interchange of opinion on these apparently trifling subjects of dis- content , they acquired a habit of minute investiga- tion , which ...
... given them , by the fiat of an earthly sovereign . Bred up , as our ancestors were , to a free interchange of opinion on these apparently trifling subjects of dis- content , they acquired a habit of minute investiga- tion , which ...
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... given point . What was fit , and expedient , and proper for the welfare of England , did in a great measure change its character when ap- plied to the Colonies . When our countrymen began to turn their eyes towards the ocean , or in ...
... given point . What was fit , and expedient , and proper for the welfare of England , did in a great measure change its character when ap- plied to the Colonies . When our countrymen began to turn their eyes towards the ocean , or in ...
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... three hundred men , was given to Colonel Fry , who died soon after their first skirmish at the Great Meadows , and Washington , his lieutenent colonel , succeeded to the command . Thus far the Colony of AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 29.
... three hundred men , was given to Colonel Fry , who died soon after their first skirmish at the Great Meadows , and Washington , his lieutenent colonel , succeeded to the command . Thus far the Colony of AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 29.
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Página 262 - 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.
Página 218 - Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Página 262 - But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Página 95 - 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.
Página 75 - They protected by your arms ! They have nobly taken up arms in your defence ; have exerted a valour amidst their constant and laborious industry, for the defence of a country whose frontier was drenched in blood, while its interior parts yielded all its little savings to your emolument.
Página 356 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Página 285 - ... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent states.
Página 219 - 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.
Página 359 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Página 284 - Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.