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... Gage with the King- Exaggerated Popular Rumours - Tarring and Feathering - Measures of the Ministry - The Boston Port Bill - Refusal to hear the Agent for Massachusetts , or to receive Petitions against the Bill - The Massachusetts ...
... Gage with the King- Exaggerated Popular Rumours - Tarring and Feathering - Measures of the Ministry - The Boston Port Bill - Refusal to hear the Agent for Massachusetts , or to receive Petitions against the Bill - The Massachusetts ...
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... Gage at Boston - Insurrectionary State of the Provinces - Lord Chatham on American Subordination - Conciliatory Proposals despatched from England 130 138 CHAPTER XVII . Determination of General Gage to seize the Military Stores at ...
... Gage at Boston - Insurrectionary State of the Provinces - Lord Chatham on American Subordination - Conciliatory Proposals despatched from England 130 138 CHAPTER XVII . Determination of General Gage to seize the Military Stores at ...
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... Gage . It included provisions for billeting troops in the barracks of the provin- cial militia , in public - houses , inns and taverns , barns and empty houses ; but the colonial Govern- ments were required to furnish them with fuel for ...
... Gage . It included provisions for billeting troops in the barracks of the provin- cial militia , in public - houses , inns and taverns , barns and empty houses ; but the colonial Govern- ments were required to furnish them with fuel for ...
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... Gage with the military and naval forces , and with the guns of the fort and the ships , there could be no such tumults as at Boston . But the General did not care to assist the Governor to stop the clamours of the press , and of bold ...
... Gage with the military and naval forces , and with the guns of the fort and the ships , there could be no such tumults as at Boston . But the General did not care to assist the Governor to stop the clamours of the press , and of bold ...
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... Gage wrote to Governor Bernard , on the 12th : - " Those who compose it [ the Con- gress ] are of various characters and opinions ; but in general , the spirit of democracy is strong among them , supporting the independence of the ...
... Gage wrote to Governor Bernard , on the 12th : - " Those who compose it [ the Con- gress ] are of various characters and opinions ; but in general , the spirit of democracy is strong among them , supporting the independence of the ...
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Seite 136 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 545 - ... palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Seite 257 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Seite 545 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Seite 136 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us. I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Seite 545 - The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual ; and sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Seite 501 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Seite 546 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Seite 136 - 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 545 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.