History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent [to 1789].D. Appleton, 1884 - United States |
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... fails Britain desires to recruit in Germany in spite of the law Saxony refuses subsidiary troops . 337 338 . 339 . 339 . 340 . 341 342 • .343 344 345 346 347 . 348 . 349 349 • PAGE 350 352 . 355 .356 • . 357 . CONTENTS . xiii.
... fails Britain desires to recruit in Germany in spite of the law Saxony refuses subsidiary troops . 337 338 . 339 . 339 . 340 . 341 342 • .343 344 345 346 347 . 348 . 349 349 • PAGE 350 352 . 355 .356 • . 357 . CONTENTS . xiii.
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... desires representative government Retirement of Malesherbes • Of Turgot . Sartine favors war with England . Grimaldi France and Spain send aid to America . Unhappy condition of France . Prediction of a revolution by Leibnitz . By Wesley ...
... desires representative government Retirement of Malesherbes • Of Turgot . Sartine favors war with England . Grimaldi France and Spain send aid to America . Unhappy condition of France . Prediction of a revolution by Leibnitz . By Wesley ...
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... desire of the court of Vienna . Committees to prepare a declaration of independence To digest the form of a confederation . 421 422 423 424 • 424 425 425 To treat with foreign powers The law of treason and CONTENTS . XV.
... desire of the court of Vienna . Committees to prepare a declaration of independence To digest the form of a confederation . 421 422 423 424 • 424 425 425 To treat with foreign powers The law of treason and CONTENTS . XV.
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... desire of their own hearts . To suggest nothing till a congress could be convened would have seemed to them like abandoning the town to bleed away its life . The king had expected to starve its people into submis- sion ; in their ...
... desire of their own hearts . To suggest nothing till a congress could be convened would have seemed to them like abandoning the town to bleed away its life . The king had expected to starve its people into submis- sion ; in their ...
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... desire for a reconciliation with the mother country . The cause of America needed intrepid counsellors ; but the great central state fell under the influence of Dickinson . His claims to public respect were indisputable . He was hon ...
... desire for a reconciliation with the mother country . The cause of America needed intrepid counsellors ; but the great central state fell under the influence of Dickinson . His claims to public respect were indisputable . He was hon ...
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Page 113 - 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.
Page 342 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 418 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Page 140 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace...
Page 74 - We will neither import nor purchase, any slave imported after the first day of December next ; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Page 17 - Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine Interposition for averting the heavy Calamity, which threatens Destruction to our civil Rights, and the Evils of civil War; to give us one Heart and one Mind firmly to oppose, by all just and proper Means, every Injury to American Rights...
Page 442 - The second * day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to' be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 274 - Believe me, dear sir, there is not in the British Empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose; and in this I think I speak the sentiments of America.
Page 417 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 141 - 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.