Historical View of the American RevolutionTicknor & Fields, 1865 - 459 pages |
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... go for guidance and counsel . A careful study of them by our statesmen at the beginning of the present war would have saved us thousands of lives and millions of treasure . " Why have the fathers suffered , but to make PREFACE . vii.
... go for guidance and counsel . A careful study of them by our statesmen at the beginning of the present war would have saved us thousands of lives and millions of treasure . " Why have the fathers suffered , but to make PREFACE . vii.
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... thousands , might have claimed tens of thousands in the new . They loved to talk of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey ; and , with the Hudson and the Potomac before their eyes , could hardly per- suade themselves that the Thames was not ...
... thousands , might have claimed tens of thousands in the new . They loved to talk of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey ; and , with the Hudson and the Potomac before their eyes , could hardly per- suade themselves that the Thames was not ...
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... and almost indefinite , three thousand years ago . In this light the American Revolution has , at last , taken its place in history , both a cause and an effect ; receiving its impulse from the past , and CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION . 7.
... and almost indefinite , three thousand years ago . In this light the American Revolution has , at last , taken its place in history , both a cause and an effect ; receiving its impulse from the past , and CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION . 7.
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... thousand miles by the spirit of monopoly . Still the feeling engendered by this relation was not of a kind to make it lasting . That of the Americans was distrust and suspicion , strangely mixed up with filial reverence , an instinctive ...
... thousand miles by the spirit of monopoly . Still the feeling engendered by this relation was not of a kind to make it lasting . That of the Americans was distrust and suspicion , strangely mixed up with filial reverence , an instinctive ...
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... thousand years . And in front , as far as eye could reach , stretched the firm phalanx of the enemy ; calm , deliberate , resolute , fearless , confi- dent of victory . For it was no longer a war of king against king , a war to decide ...
... thousand years . And in front , as far as eye could reach , stretched the firm phalanx of the enemy ; calm , deliberate , resolute , fearless , confi- dent of victory . For it was no longer a war of king against king , a war to decide ...
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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.