The History of the American RevolutionJ. Duffy, 1846 - Počet stran: 248 |
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... committed themselves to the perilous enterprise found , instead , desolation and death . Some returned , after years of vain and wasting toil , with shattered health and ruined fortunes ; others settled on the wild coast , and were ...
... committed themselves to the perilous enterprise found , instead , desolation and death . Some returned , after years of vain and wasting toil , with shattered health and ruined fortunes ; others settled on the wild coast , and were ...
Strana 60
... committed to retract . They calculated , and not in vain , on the courage of the other colonies ; their resolu tions , acts of assembly , patriotism , were all kin ‚ | dred with their own . But meaner passions found ⠀⠀ place in ...
... committed to retract . They calculated , and not in vain , on the courage of the other colonies ; their resolu tions , acts of assembly , patriotism , were all kin ‚ | dred with their own . But meaner passions found ⠀⠀ place in ...
Strana 65
... committed to truer hearts than on this occasion . Most of those whose names have shed everlasting light on America's history , took part in the delibera- tions . * The following are the members of this Congress : NEW HAMPSHIRE John ...
... committed to truer hearts than on this occasion . Most of those whose names have shed everlasting light on America's history , took part in the delibera- tions . * The following are the members of this Congress : NEW HAMPSHIRE John ...
Strana 66
... committed to the abilities and discretion of sub - committees , con- sisting of some of the ablest members ; and their clear , succinct , and manly compositions marked the genius of those who afterwards took a leading part in raising up ...
... committed to the abilities and discretion of sub - committees , con- sisting of some of the ablest members ; and their clear , succinct , and manly compositions marked the genius of those who afterwards took a leading part in raising up ...
Strana 70
... committing murder on unoffending citi zens , and their oaths were backed by the very natural presumption that less than 100 men would not risk a conflict , in mere caprice , with an army of nearly 1,000 . But this controversy is now of ...
... committing murder on unoffending citi zens , and their oaths were backed by the very natural presumption that less than 100 men would not risk a conflict , in mere caprice , with an army of nearly 1,000 . But this controversy is now of ...
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Strana 234 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 242 - I behold the surest pledges, that as, on one side, no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests...
Strana 236 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Strana 242 - I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists, in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...
Strana 244 - Having thus imparted to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave, but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the human race, in humble supplication that, since he has been pleased to...
Strana 238 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States, of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which however was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the unioa and the patronage of Heaven.
Strana 243 - To the preceding observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation.
Strana 238 - It was impossible the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate. Permit me, sir, to recommend in particular, those who have continued in the service to the present moment, as worthy of the favorable notice and patronage of Congress.
Strana 243 - I must decline as inapplicable to myself any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed may during my continuance in it be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.
Strana 239 - Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world : having taught a lesson useful to those who inflict and to those who feel oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action, with the blessings of your fellow-citizens, but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command, it will continue to animate remotest ages.