History of the United States: From Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Close of the War with Great Britain, in 1815J. Miller, 1827 - 467 páginas |
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... assistance of his native city . His countrymen , accustomed only to cruising , in frail vessels , along the shores of the continent , treated the project as chimerical , and declined furnishing aid . A pressing application to the king ...
... assistance of his native city . His countrymen , accustomed only to cruising , in frail vessels , along the shores of the continent , treated the project as chimerical , and declined furnishing aid . A pressing application to the king ...
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... the drowning pleaded powerfully for assistance , but none could be afforded until the morning dawned , when six or seven hundred , found float- ing on the scattered wrecks , were rescued from death F 2 MASSACHUSETTS . 67.
... the drowning pleaded powerfully for assistance , but none could be afforded until the morning dawned , when six or seven hundred , found float- ing on the scattered wrecks , were rescued from death F 2 MASSACHUSETTS . 67.
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... it into execu- tion . The other New England colonies were so- licited , and agreed to furnish assistance and a boat was despatched to Commodore Warren , in the West Indies , to invite his co - operation . MASSACHUSETTS . 73.
... it into execu- tion . The other New England colonies were so- licited , and agreed to furnish assistance and a boat was despatched to Commodore Warren , in the West Indies , to invite his co - operation . MASSACHUSETTS . 73.
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... assistance , had achieved , an enter- prise of vast importance to her and to them . Their commerce and fisheries were now secure , and their maritime cities relieved from all fear of attack from that quarter . France , fired with ...
... assistance , had achieved , an enter- prise of vast importance to her and to them . Their commerce and fisheries were now secure , and their maritime cities relieved from all fear of attack from that quarter . France , fired with ...
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... assistance of Massachusetts , to contend with the Dutch and their Indian allies . They argued , entreated and remonstrated , but she continued inflexible . They then represented their danger to Cromwell , and implored his assistance ...
... assistance of Massachusetts , to contend with the Dutch and their Indian allies . They argued , entreated and remonstrated , but she continued inflexible . They then represented their danger to Cromwell , and implored his assistance ...
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Página 195 - It is my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.
Página 440 - ... when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us. I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and...
Página 253 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Página 197 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.
Página 223 - What is to defend us against so enormous, so unlimited a power ? Not a single man of those who assume it is chosen by us, or is subject to our...
Página 440 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 332 - ... exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.
Página 196 - A great deal has been said without doors, of the power, of the strength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.
Página 225 - With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties ; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Página 332 - ... it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success...