Myths and Facts of the American Revolution: A Commentary on United States History as it is WrittenW. Briggs, 1908 - 296 страници |
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... never regard their British cousins as their friends . Until it is removed , all offers of fellowship and good- will coming to America from across the sea , how- ever sincere or magnanimous they may be , will fail of the desired effect ...
... never regard their British cousins as their friends . Until it is removed , all offers of fellowship and good- will coming to America from across the sea , how- ever sincere or magnanimous they may be , will fail of the desired effect ...
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... never coveted that which was not their own ; that her eighth Henry was a faithful and indulgent hus- band , on principle a strict monogamist , his eldest daugh- ter renowned for religious tolerance and tenderness of heart ; that her ...
... never coveted that which was not their own ; that her eighth Henry was a faithful and indulgent hus- band , on principle a strict monogamist , his eldest daugh- ter renowned for religious tolerance and tenderness of heart ; that her ...
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... never mentioned but in terms of hatred and obloquy as malefactors and traitors to their country . Now many of them are honored as heroic sons of a reunited nation . If , from having obtained a more just view of the objects of these men ...
... never mentioned but in terms of hatred and obloquy as malefactors and traitors to their country . Now many of them are honored as heroic sons of a reunited nation . If , from having obtained a more just view of the objects of these men ...
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... never foisted upon his readers falsehood for fact in a so - called history . It pictures the revolutionists as endowed with all the cardinal virtues , paladins without fear or reproach ; the British and loyal Americans as 15 THE MYTH ...
... never foisted upon his readers falsehood for fact in a so - called history . It pictures the revolutionists as endowed with all the cardinal virtues , paladins without fear or reproach ; the British and loyal Americans as 15 THE MYTH ...
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... never left the shores . of Europe - was " cashiered for cowardice on an Amer- ican field of battle . " Doubtless it was appropriate that a British officer , if he played the poltroon at all , should do so on an American field of battle ...
... never left the shores . of Europe - was " cashiered for cowardice on an Amer- ican field of battle . " Doubtless it was appropriate that a British officer , if he played the poltroon at all , should do so on an American field of battle ...
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Страница 106 - Men may speculate as they will; they may talk of patriotism; they may draw a few examples, from ancient story, of great achievements performed by its influence ; but whoever builds upon them, as a sufficient basis for conducting a long and bloody war, will find himself deceived in the end.
Страница 17 - We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offence. They boast of their privileges and civilization, and yet proffer no milder conditions than servitude or death.
Страница 41 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.
Страница 98 - In short, such is the difference of character, of manners, of religion, of interest, of the different colonies, that I think, if I am not wholly ignorant of the human mind, were they left to themselves, there would soon be a civil war from one end of the continent to the other; while the Indians and negroes would, with better reason, impatiently watch the opportunity of exterminating them all together.
Страница 272 - That his majesty's subjects in these colonies owe the same allegiance to the crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain.
Страница 215 - ... are but so many grains of dust — it was but a week, since this old man had stood for days upon his trial before this very body, charged with having dared to assert the infamy of that traffic, which has for its accursed merchandise men and women, and their unborn children.
Страница 117 - We had no domestic throne to overturn, no privileged orders to cast down, no violent changes of property to encounter. In the American revolution, no man sought or wished for more than to defend and enjoy his own. None hoped for plunder or for spoil. Rapacity was unknown to it ; the axe was not among the instruments...
Страница 96 - ... 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...
Страница 148 - ... a new method of acquiring importance, a new and more dazzling object of ambition would be presented to the leading men of each colony. Instead of piddling for the little prizes which are to be found in what may be called the paltry raffle of colony faction...