The Causes of the War of Independence: Being the First Volume of a History of the Founding of the American Republic, Том 1Houghton Mifflin, 1922 - 499 страници Among scholars there has been during the last twenty years a decided modification in the old views of the causes which led to the American Revolution. This important book by the head of the history department in the University of Michigan is the first in which the results of these investigations and reconsiderations -- supplemented by twenty years of investigation by the author in the archives of America, France, and England -- have been used as a basis for a history that is at once illuminating, authoritative, and distinctly stimulating for the general reader as well as for the historical student. - Jacket. |
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
affairs Alvord American Archives 4th American colonies American Historical Review Anglican assembly asserted Boston Britain British Government British Politics Burke century charter Chatham Christopher Gadsden Church Colonial Merchants colonists committee Commons Congress Constitution Council courts customs declared Diary duty England English Englishmen factions force Franklin French friends George Governor Grenville Hansard Henry Laurens Hist House House of Burgesses Hutchinson Ibid idea imperial Indian James Otis John Adams John Dickinson King King's land later legislature Letters liberty London Lord North Lord Shelburne Loyalist Massachusetts ment mind ministers Ministry Mississippi Valley nature non-importation obedience officers Parliament Parliamentary History Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pitt planters provinces Puritan Quartering Act radical repeal Revolution royal Samuel Adams Schlesinger seemed South Carolina Spanish spirit Stamp Act Sugar Act thousand tion Townshend Townshend Acts trade Valley in British Virginia vote Writings Smyth wrote York
Популярни откъси
Страница 159 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Страница 229 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Страница 188 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Страница 155 - Shortly after I Came in one of the members stood up and said he had read that in former times tarquin and Julus had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell, and he Did not Doubt but some good american would stand up, in favour of his Country...
Страница 291 - Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved...
Страница 477 - It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Страница 66 - For these reasons there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
Страница 110 - It looks likely to me; for if we can remove the turbulent Gallicks, our people, according to the exactest computations, will in another century become more numerous than England itself. Should this be the case, since we have, I may say, all the naval stores of the nation in our hands, it will be easy to obtain the mastery of the seas; and then the united force of all Europe will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves is to disunite us.
Страница 222 - But if, intemperately, unwisely, fatally, you sophisticate and poison the very source of government, by urging subtle deductions, and consequences odious to those you govern, from the unlimited and illimitable nature of supreme sovereignty, you will teach them by these means to call that sovereignty itself in question.
Страница 291 - He is a man of refined policy, steadfast integrity, exquisite humanity, genteel erudition, obliging, engaging manners, real as well as professed piety, and a universal good character, unless it should be admitted that he is too attentive to the public, and not enough so to himself and his family.