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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... reasons , in accordance with the precept of Mr. Bryce , I have " spoken my mind freely . " Or , more accurately , I have suppressed no fact appearing on record , and spared no comment thereon , because of the tendency of either to show ...
... reasons , in accordance with the precept of Mr. Bryce , I have " spoken my mind freely . " Or , more accurately , I have suppressed no fact appearing on record , and spared no comment thereon , because of the tendency of either to show ...
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... reason.4 As well might it be maintained that because a shipmaster has a right to salvage he has an equal right to take possession of the ship and cargo that he rescues . Lord Chatham declared that taxation was no part of the governing ...
... reason.4 As well might it be maintained that because a shipmaster has a right to salvage he has an equal right to take possession of the ship and cargo that he rescues . Lord Chatham declared that taxation was no part of the governing ...
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... reason that they stood less in the way of independence than any other means of control possessed by the Home Government . In fact , they did not stand in the way of independence at all , because , as soon as all other means of control ...
... reason that they stood less in the way of independence than any other means of control possessed by the Home Government . In fact , they did not stand in the way of independence at all , because , as soon as all other means of control ...
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... reason for the pro- posal being that the insurgents already had engaged them in arms.7 Before that time the Indian superin- tendents had been instructed to keep the Indians neu- tral.8 In November , 1775 , Lord North assured the House ...
... reason for the pro- posal being that the insurgents already had engaged them in arms.7 Before that time the Indian superin- tendents had been instructed to keep the Indians neu- tral.8 In November , 1775 , Lord North assured the House ...
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... reason to believe contains any proof of such a charge ; an " etc. , " and from the American Pioneer a very curious account of an Indian who , by dividing a large scalp into two , got fifty dollars for each half . " A curious account ...
... reason to believe contains any proof of such a charge ; an " etc. , " and from the American Pioneer a very curious account of an Indian who , by dividing a large scalp into two , got fifty dollars for each half . " A curious account ...
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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...
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