Historical View of the American RevolutionTicknor & Fields, 1865 - 459 pages |
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... French Revolution came ; and then for a time the splendor of the American Revolution seemed to have been eclipsed by the variety and magnitude of the events which followed it . Men forgot , as is their wont , what their fathers had done ...
... French Revolution came ; and then for a time the splendor of the American Revolution seemed to have been eclipsed by the variety and magnitude of the events which followed it . Men forgot , as is their wont , what their fathers had done ...
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... French , in their forests ; that English sailors had beaten French sailors on their coasts . But they did not know that the most flourishing of these Colonies had been planted by men who , prizing freedom above all other blessings , had ...
... French , in their forests ; that English sailors had beaten French sailors on their coasts . But they did not know that the most flourishing of these Colonies had been planted by men who , prizing freedom above all other blessings , had ...
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... , the superiority of a free over a despotic govern- ment was manifest . English colonies prospered in a cold climate , and on a meagre soil , as French and Spanish colonies never prospered under mild skies , and with 18 LECTURE I.
... , the superiority of a free over a despotic govern- ment was manifest . English colonies prospered in a cold climate , and on a meagre soil , as French and Spanish colonies never prospered under mild skies , and with 18 LECTURE I.
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George Washington Greene. the decision of the sword from the beginning ; for the French and Spanish colonist , in resisting the pretensions of the mother country , would have had no legal or constitutional ground to stand upon . What one ...
George Washington Greene. the decision of the sword from the beginning ; for the French and Spanish colonist , in resisting the pretensions of the mother country , would have had no legal or constitutional ground to stand upon . What one ...
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... French Minister at Versailles , and the French Ambassador at London ; and while George Grenville , the man who , according to Dr. Johnson , could have counted the Manilla ransom if he could have enforced the payment of it , was eagerly ...
... French Minister at Versailles , and the French Ambassador at London ; and while George Grenville , the man who , according to Dr. Johnson , could have counted the Manilla ransom if he could have enforced the payment of it , was eagerly ...
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Page 442 - 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...
Page 363 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Page 436 - Twas there the base hirelings, in royal array, His cause did deride; his cause did deride. Five minutes were given, short moments, no more, For him to repent; for him to repent. He prayed for his mother, he asked not another, To Heaven he went; to Heaven he went.
Page 442 - 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 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 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...
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 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.
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 121 - New 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.