History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America..N. Whiting, 1837 |
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... British nation . Another to the king . Another to the Irish people . Letter to the Canadians . Events in Canada . Resolutions of congress relative to the conciliatory proposition of lord North . Articles of union between the provinces ...
... British nation . Another to the king . Another to the Irish people . Letter to the Canadians . Events in Canada . Resolutions of congress relative to the conciliatory proposition of lord North . Articles of union between the provinces ...
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... British gov- ernment could exercise in the new world , when it is considered , that the two countries being separated by an ocean three thousand miles in breadth , entire months sometimes transpired , between the date of an order , and ...
... British gov- ernment could exercise in the new world , when it is considered , that the two countries being separated by an ocean three thousand miles in breadth , entire months sometimes transpired , between the date of an order , and ...
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... British gov- ernment , and approached the colonies towards independence . By this establishment , they would have obtained a local power , which would have exercised all the rights appertaining to sovereignty , how- ever dependent it ...
... British gov- ernment , and approached the colonies towards independence . By this establishment , they would have obtained a local power , which would have exercised all the rights appertaining to sovereignty , how- ever dependent it ...
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... British government towards its colonies , had gone so far , as not only to abstain from imposing duties upon English manufactures destined for their ports , but even had induced it to exempt foreign merchandise from all duties , when ex ...
... British government towards its colonies , had gone so far , as not only to abstain from imposing duties upon English manufactures destined for their ports , but even had induced it to exempt foreign merchandise from all duties , when ex ...
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... British nation , both upon land and sea , as imminently menacing to the repose and liberty of Europe ; excessive prosperity but too rarely permitting men to know where to limit their enterprises . Sup- ported with one hand upon her ...
... British nation , both upon land and sea , as imminently menacing to the repose and liberty of Europe ; excessive prosperity but too rarely permitting men to know where to limit their enterprises . Sup- ported with one hand upon her ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 92 - America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. 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 144 - ... on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have for the present only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures: 1.
Página 228 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. With an humble confidence in the mercies of...
Página 227 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Página 359 - Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross DELAWARE Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas M'Kean MARYLAND Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll, of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Página 55 - Britain can the consumption of foreign superfluities) our whole wealth centers finally amongst the merchants and inhabitants of Britain ; and if we make them richer, and enable them better to pay their taxes, it is nearly the same as being taxed ourselves, and equally beneficial to the crown.
Página 49 - A member of parliament, chosen for any borough, represents not only the constituents and inhabitants of that particular place, but he represents the inhabitants of every other borough in Great Britain. He represents the city of London, and all...
Página 91 - When, therefore, in this house we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do ? We your majesty's commons for Great Britain give and grant to your majesty, what ? Our own property ? No.
Página 51 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Página 93 - 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.