The History of the American RevolutionJ. Duffy, 1846 - Počet stran: 248 |
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... ment of my countrymen's information , feelings , hopes , courage , and prospects - my impartiality may appear questionable , if I selected them as leading characters in the history of a great peo- ple , of whom they formed but a ...
... ment of my countrymen's information , feelings , hopes , courage , and prospects - my impartiality may appear questionable , if I selected them as leading characters in the history of a great peo- ple , of whom they formed but a ...
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... ment of Maryland , but confined that resentment to her quarrels with the government at home , and made no resistance to the foundation of its chief city on land purchased from the Indians near the confluence of the Powtomac . The con ...
... ment of Maryland , but confined that resentment to her quarrels with the government at home , and made no resistance to the foundation of its chief city on land purchased from the Indians near the confluence of the Powtomac . The con ...
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... ment was the fall of Louisborough , in Cape Breton , a French fortification of immense strength . The genius or deception of an enthu- siast effected this , almost without a blow . It was and invested by the army of New England a to ...
... ment was the fall of Louisborough , in Cape Breton , a French fortification of immense strength . The genius or deception of an enthu- siast effected this , almost without a blow . It was and invested by the army of New England a to ...
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... ment was given that the troops would be removed of the town , else the efforts of the patriots had beeny vain to save them from popular vengeance . * ། ༈i ། ་ སྐས་ གླ་ THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 37 firm . dailond aides of 56 THE HISTORY OF.
... ment was given that the troops would be removed of the town , else the efforts of the patriots had beeny vain to save them from popular vengeance . * ། ༈i ། ་ སྐས་ གླ་ THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 37 firm . dailond aides of 56 THE HISTORY OF.
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... into adequate inflexibility . Provisional and corresponding committees were appointed in all the townships , whose arrange 10 XCIT ment admirably facilitated such confederation . Boston celebrated THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 670.
... into adequate inflexibility . Provisional and corresponding committees were appointed in all the townships , whose arrange 10 XCIT ment admirably facilitated such confederation . Boston celebrated THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . 670.
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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.