History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle (to the Peace of Versailles |
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... La Fayette - He proceeds to America Cordial reception by Washington Baron Steuben The campaign commences Skirmish at Quibbletown The British troops embark And proceed to the head of Elk Battle of the Brandywine Advance of the British ...
... La Fayette - He proceeds to America Cordial reception by Washington Baron Steuben The campaign commences Skirmish at Quibbletown The British troops embark And proceed to the head of Elk Battle of the Brandywine Advance of the British ...
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... La Fayette on Barren Hill ib . The " Mischianza " 245 The British Commissioners arrive ib . Their terms rejected 247 Their private correspondence 248 They return to England ib . The British troops leave Philadelphia Advice of Washington ...
... La Fayette on Barren Hill ib . The " Mischianza " 245 The British Commissioners arrive ib . Their terms rejected 247 Their private correspondence 248 They return to England ib . The British troops leave Philadelphia Advice of Washington ...
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... La Fayette : " Your late purchase of an estate in Cayenne " with a view of emancipating the slaves on it is a gene- rous and noble proof of your humanity . Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds " of ...
... La Fayette : " Your late purchase of an estate in Cayenne " with a view of emancipating the slaves on it is a gene- rous and noble proof of your humanity . Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds " of ...
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... La Fayette ; Mem , et Corresp . vol . i . p . 21. ed . 1837 . to their lines , leaving on the field many hundreds 1776 . 109 BATTLE OF BROOKLYN .
... La Fayette ; Mem , et Corresp . vol . i . p . 21. ed . 1837 . to their lines , leaving on the field many hundreds 1776 . 109 BATTLE OF BROOKLYN .
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... La Fayette . There The Marquis de La Fayette was born in 1757 , as a posthumous son , his father having fallen shortly before at the battle of Minden . His studies were slight , and soon interrupted ; less , perhaps , by his entrance ...
... La Fayette . There The Marquis de La Fayette was born in 1757 , as a posthumous son , his father having fallen shortly before at the battle of Minden . His studies were slight , and soon interrupted ; less , perhaps , by his entrance ...
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Страница 61 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Страница 198 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Страница 202 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Страница 49 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Страница 64 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Страница 290 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Страница 34 - If amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honour and prosperity, that angel should have drawn up the curtain, and unfolded the rising glories of his country, and whilst he was gazing with admiration on the then commercial grandeur of England, the genius should...
Страница 201 - That God and nature put into our hands ! " I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering...
Страница 301 - My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.
Страница 23 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed— you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them; I stake my reputation on it: I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.