The English in America, Том 2Colburn and Company, 1851 |
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... provincial Congress , and vote to raise twelve thousand men , & c . - King's stores seized at Rhode Island and New Hampshire- Proceedings in Parliament - Skirmish at Lexington -Commencement of revolutionary war 172 CHAPTER VI . Reasons ...
... provincial Congress , and vote to raise twelve thousand men , & c . - King's stores seized at Rhode Island and New Hampshire- Proceedings in Parliament - Skirmish at Lexington -Commencement of revolutionary war 172 CHAPTER VI . Reasons ...
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... provinces - Form of Government— The above - named Acts of Parliament the cause of all the Canadian troubles - Mistake in allowing French to be the recording language , and in giving constitu- tional government before the people were ...
... provinces - Form of Government— The above - named Acts of Parliament the cause of all the Canadian troubles - Mistake in allowing French to be the recording language , and in giving constitu- tional government before the people were ...
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... , that furnished the revolted provinces with able and experienced officers , converted every husbandman into a soldier , and enabled them subsequently to under- take the bold and difficult task of defending themselves against.
... , that furnished the revolted provinces with able and experienced officers , converted every husbandman into a soldier , and enabled them subsequently to under- take the bold and difficult task of defending themselves against.
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... province of New York , to the whole valley of the Missis- sippi , and to Texas , as far as Rio Bravo del Norte . Knowing their own weakness , they proposed , at the commencement of hostilities , to prolong the peace then subsisting in ...
... province of New York , to the whole valley of the Missis- sippi , and to Texas , as far as Rio Bravo del Norte . Knowing their own weakness , they proposed , at the commencement of hostilities , to prolong the peace then subsisting in ...
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... provinces in America . The second inter - colonial war commenced in 1702 , and was terminated by the Treaty of Utrecht , on the 30th of March , 1713. Peace was scarcely proclaimed when the defects of the Treaty of 12 THE ENGLISH.
... provinces in America . The second inter - colonial war commenced in 1702 , and was terminated by the Treaty of Utrecht , on the 30th of March , 1713. Peace was scarcely proclaimed when the defects of the Treaty of 12 THE ENGLISH.
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Стр. 160 - 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.
Стр. 135 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the subject of the proposed Stamp Act.
Стр. 266 - The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Стр. 111 - In the next place, it is perpetual; there is no return. A man is accountable to no person for his doings. Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
Стр. 204 - Colonies, do resolve, that a meeting of Committees, from the several Colonies on this Continent is highly expedient and necessary, to consult upon the present state of the Colonies, and the miseries, to which they are, and must be reduced, by the operation of certain Acts of Parliament respecting America...
Стр. 94 - Representatives that happen to be sitting within that time, or that shall be especially for that purpose convened, may and shall choose members for the Grand Council, in the following proportion, that is to say : Massachusetts Bay 7, New Hampshire 2, Connecticut 5, Rhode Island 2, New York 4, New Jersey 3, Pennsylvania 6, Maryland 4, Virginia 7, North Carolina 4, South Carolina 4...
Стр. 212 - ... for contributing their proportion to the common defence (such proportion to be raised under the authority of the general court or general assembly of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament), and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice, in such province...
Стр. 94 - It is proposed — That humble application be made for an act of parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America, including all the said colonies, within and under which government each colony may retain its present constitution, except in the particulars wherein a change may be directed by the said act as hereafter follows...
Стр. 204 - America, and to deliberate and determine upon wise and proper measures, to be by them recommended to all the colonies, for the recovery and establishment of their just rights and liberties, civil and religious, and the restoration of union and harmony between Great Britain and the colonies, most ardently desired by all good men: Therefore, resolved, that the Hon.
Стр. 233 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?