HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT1858 |
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... Union of the coun- try , 55 . CHAPTER IV . MASSACHUSETTS APPOINTS THE TIME AND PLACE FOR A GENERAL CONGRESS . June , 1774 . Blockade of Boston , 56 - Effects elsewhere , 57 - The king makes a list of mandamus councillors , 58 - The ...
... Union of the coun- try , 55 . CHAPTER IV . MASSACHUSETTS APPOINTS THE TIME AND PLACE FOR A GENERAL CONGRESS . June , 1774 . Blockade of Boston , 56 - Effects elsewhere , 57 - The king makes a list of mandamus councillors , 58 - The ...
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... UNION . January - February , 1775 . Firm union of the continent , 205 - Accession of a part of Georgia , 206-- Movements in Virginia , 206 - Maryland and Delaware , 207 - Intrigues in New York , 208 — The hopes of royalists increase ...
... UNION . January - February , 1775 . Firm union of the continent , 205 - Accession of a part of Georgia , 206-- Movements in Virginia , 206 - Maryland and Delaware , 207 - Intrigues in New York , 208 — The hopes of royalists increase ...
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... union , and ruled as well as reigned . In him an approving conscience had no misgiving as to his duty . His heart knew no relent- ing ; his will never wavered . Though America were to be drenched in blood and its towns reduced to I. May ...
... union , and ruled as well as reigned . In him an approving conscience had no misgiving as to his duty . His heart knew no relent- ing ; his will never wavered . Though America were to be drenched in blood and its towns reduced to I. May ...
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... union and most perfect harmony ; " for , said he , " the family compact guarantees the prosperity and glory of our House . " At that time , the Catholic king was fully employed in personally regulating his finances , and in preparations ...
... union and most perfect harmony ; " for , said he , " the family compact guarantees the prosperity and glory of our House . " At that time , the Catholic king was fully employed in personally regulating his finances , and in preparations ...
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... union , which was not to be hoped for , unless Boston should offer herself as a willing sacrifice . The mechanics and merchants and laborers , altogether scarcely so many as thirty - five hundred able - bodied men , knew that they were ...
... union , which was not to be hoped for , unless Boston should offer herself as a willing sacrifice . The mechanics and merchants and laborers , altogether scarcely so many as thirty - five hundred able - bodied men , knew that they were ...
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Seite 216 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Seite 268 - My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Seite 242 - they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Seite 129 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Seite 274 - ... if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us.
Seite 266 - And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Seite 274 - God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Seite 200 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Seite 269 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Seite 53 - House as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine Interposition for averting the heavy Calamity, which...