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... commands uni- versal confidence , 401 - The difficulties before him , 401 - He accepts , 402— Congress adhere to him , 402 - His commission , 402 - His trust in Provi- dence , 403 - Good effect of his appointment , 403 . VOL . VII .. 2 ...
... commands uni- versal confidence , 401 - The difficulties before him , 401 - He accepts , 402— Congress adhere to him , 402 - His commission , 402 - His trust in Provi- dence , 403 - Good effect of his appointment , 403 . VOL . VII .. 2 ...
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... command of nature , and without the appearance of effort bursts forth to life in perfect harmony . The change which Divine wisdom or- dained , and which no human policy or force could hold back , proceeded as uniformly and as ...
... command of nature , and without the appearance of effort bursts forth to life in perfect harmony . The change which Divine wisdom or- dained , and which no human policy or force could hold back , proceeded as uniformly and as ...
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... command in America had recorded his opinions of their falseness and cruelty in the most impassioned language of ... commands to employ them pervaded the wilder- ness to the utmost bounds of his military authority , even to the south and ...
... command in America had recorded his opinions of their falseness and cruelty in the most impassioned language of ... commands to employ them pervaded the wilder- ness to the utmost bounds of his military authority , even to the south and ...
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... command , he hoped for no more than to pass the winter unmolested . At one moment , a suspension of the penal acts was his favorite advice , which the king ridiculed as senseless ; at the next he de- manded an army of twenty thousand ...
... command , he hoped for no more than to pass the winter unmolested . At one moment , a suspension of the penal acts was his favorite advice , which the king ridiculed as senseless ; at the next he de- manded an army of twenty thousand ...
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... command of Evan Shelby , with James Robertson and Valentine Sevier as ser- geants , marched as volunteers . The name of every one of them is preserved and cherished . Leaving home in August , they crossed the New river , and joined the ...
... command of Evan Shelby , with James Robertson and Valentine Sevier as ser- geants , marched as volunteers . The name of every one of them is preserved and cherished . Leaving home in August , they crossed the New river , and joined the ...
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act of parliament Americans appointed April arms army assembly authority Boston Britain British Cambridge Carolina CHAP Charlestown charter Chatham civil colonies command committee of safety conciliation Concord confidence Connecticut consent continental congress continued council declared defence delegates desired Dunmore elected enemy England English fire force formed Franklin freedom friends Gage governor Hill honor hope hundred independence Indians inhabitants John Adams Joseph Warren June king king's land Lexington liberty Lord North Massachusetts measures ment military militia minister ministry nation never officers party patriot peace Peyton Randolph Prescott proposed province provincial congress Quebec Quebec act rebellion received redoubt regiments repeal resistance resolution resolved Richard Henry Lee river Samuel Adams sent Sept Shawanese slaves soldiers South Carolina spirit thousand tion took town troops unanimously union Vergennes Virginia vote Warren whole wounded wrote XXXVII York
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Seite 269 - But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest -wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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 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 267 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources: of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the' remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Seite 53 - House as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine Interposition for averting the heavy Calamity, which...
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 344 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
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.