Historical View of the American Revolution1865 - 492 pages |
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... strength and state of the army The scene around Boston The feelings of the Americans . A war - hymn Winter approaching . The soldiers longing for home . Their privations Washington's measures . Reorganization of the army Various ...
... strength and state of the army The scene around Boston The feelings of the Americans . A war - hymn Winter approaching . The soldiers longing for home . Their privations Washington's measures . Reorganization of the army Various ...
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... strength , it was because in a new country , where land was cheap , the spirit of industry could not be crushed from a distance of three thousand miles by the spirit of monopoly . Still the feeling engendered by this relation was not of ...
... strength , it was because in a new country , where land was cheap , the spirit of industry could not be crushed from a distance of three thousand miles by the spirit of monopoly . Still the feeling engendered by this relation was not of ...
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... strength in reason and experience , teaching us in their daily lessons that without it there can be no sure foundation for the purest and noblest sentiments of our nature . It is the only feeling which can reconcile us to that condition ...
... strength in reason and experience , teaching us in their daily lessons that without it there can be no sure foundation for the purest and noblest sentiments of our nature . It is the only feeling which can reconcile us to that condition ...
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... strength of their minds and of their bodies accord- ing to their own conception of what was best for them here and hereafter . Hence , the ideas awakened by the mention of plantations were not ideas of brotherhood and sym- pathy , but ...
... strength of their minds and of their bodies accord- ing to their own conception of what was best for them here and hereafter . Hence , the ideas awakened by the mention of plantations were not ideas of brotherhood and sym- pathy , but ...
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... strength which bore the imperial city to the sum- mit of glory and power . They survived the great inroad of the barbarians , appearing even in the darkest hour of the tempest like fragments of some noble ship , to which the survivors ...
... strength which bore the imperial city to the sum- mit of glory and power . They survived the great inroad of the barbarians , appearing even in the darkest hour of the tempest like fragments of some noble ship , to which the survivors ...
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Page 122 - Hampshire to call a full and free representation of the people, and that the representatives, if they think it necessary, establish such a form of government as, in their judgment, will best produce the happiness of the people, and most effectually secure peace and good order in the province, during the continuance of the present dispute between Great Britain and the colonies.
Page 442 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 442 - T is of the wave and not the rock ; T is but the flapping of the sail. And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears.
Page 342 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Page 254 - ... with the deepest concern, I am obliged to confess my want of confidence in the generality of the troops.
Page 99 - 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 73 - British colonies on this continent, to consult together on the present circumstances of the colonies, and the difficulties to which they are, and must be, reduced by the operation of the acts of Parliament for levying duties and taxes on the colonies ; and to consider of a general and united, dutiful, loyal, and humble representation of their condition to his majesty and to the Parliament, and to implore relief.
Page 435 - As stilly stole by a bold legion of horse, For Hale in the bush, for Hale in the bush. "Keep still !" said the thrush as she nestled her young, In a nest by the road; in a nest by the road. "For the tyrants are near, and with them appear What bodes us no good, what bodes us no good.
Page 363 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me a master of it.
Page 434 - A hundred men with each a pen, Or more upon my word, sir, It is most true would be too few, Their valor to record, sir.