History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland: Commencing in 1775 and Ending in 1783, Svazek 2

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J. Fielding, 1786
 

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Strana 216 - ... may of right do. — And for the fupport of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our facred honour.
Strana 285 - ... any treaties of alliance or other conventions, except to make peace/ nor coin money or regulate its value, nor determine or fix the fums...
Strana 216 - STATES ; that they are abfolved from all allegiance to the Britifh crown, and that all political connection between them and the ftate of GreatBritain is, and ought to be, totally difiblved ; and that as Free and Independent States...
Strana 215 - ... evinces a defign to reduce them under abfolute defpotifm, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off fuch government, and to provide new guards for their future fecurity. Such has been the patient...
Strana 216 - Englifh laws in a neighboring province, eftablifhing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, fo as to render it at once an example and fit inftrument for introducing the fame abfolute rule into thefe colonies. For taking away our charters, abolifhing our...
Strana 216 - ... and things which Independent " States. may of right do. ' And for the fupport of this " declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of " DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to " each other ourlives,Oiirfortunes, and ourfacredhonor.
Strana 232 - Parliament, namely: that of granting pardons, with such exceptions as the commissioners shall think proper to make, and of declaring America, or any part of it, to be in the king's peace upon submission...
Strana 215 - WE hold thefe Truths to be felf-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among thefe are Life, Liberty, and the Purfuit of Happinefs...
Strana 46 - By these means, we trust, we shall avoid any occasion for having recourse to the alarming and dangerous expedient of calling in foreign forces to the support of His Majesty's authority within his own dominions, and the still more dreadful calamity of shedding British blood by British hands.
Strana 45 - ... the fpot, to grant general or particular pardons and indemnities, in fuch manner, and to fuch perfons, as they ihould think fit ; and to receive the fubmiffion of any province or colony which ihould be difpofed to return to its allegiance.

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