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... cause to doubt correctness . ' On receipt of the second volume of the translation , Mr. Jefferson re- news his eulogies of the history , in the expressions which follow : I'join Mr. Adams , heartily , in good wishes for the success of ...
... cause to doubt correctness . ' On receipt of the second volume of the translation , Mr. Jefferson re- news his eulogies of the history , in the expressions which follow : I'join Mr. Adams , heartily , in good wishes for the success of ...
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... caused English blood to flow in torrents , the changes were extreme and rapid . Each province , each colony , had an ... cause of the long and perilous expatriation to which they had been con- strain to resort . It ean . therefore ...
... caused English blood to flow in torrents , the changes were extreme and rapid . Each province , each colony , had an ... cause of the long and perilous expatriation to which they had been con- strain to resort . It ean . therefore ...
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... cause , was immortalized . These were their apostles , these their martyrs : their names , their virtues , their achievements , their unhappy , but to the eyes of the colonists so honorable , death , formed the continual subject of the ...
... cause , was immortalized . These were their apostles , these their martyrs : their names , their virtues , their achievements , their unhappy , but to the eyes of the colonists so honorable , death , formed the continual subject of the ...
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... causing them to concur with those of all the British empire . The Americans submitted to this system , if not withou some ... cause them to be seized , wherever he could find them . This traffic , however , not having been discontinued ...
... causing them to concur with those of all the British empire . The Americans submitted to this system , if not withou some ... cause them to be seized , wherever he could find them . This traffic , however , not having been discontinued ...
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... cause to be seized and conducted to Cana- da , every Englishman who should attempt to trade upon the river Ohio , and its dependencies . This proceeding of the French greatly incensed the ministers of Great Britain ; they could not ...
... cause to be seized and conducted to Cana- da , every Englishman who should attempt to trade upon the river Ohio , and its dependencies . This proceeding of the French greatly incensed the ministers of Great Britain ; they could not ...
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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.