Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect and Preserve Some of the Speeches, Orations, & Proceedings, with Sketches and Remarks on Men and Things, and Other Fugitive Or Neglected Pieces, Belonging to the Men of the Revolutionary Period in the United States ...Printed and pub. for the editor, by W.O. Niles, 1822 - 495 страници |
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... March , with re- flections , 481 ; persons proscribed at , Boston orations " -in commemoration of the 5th of March , 1770 , when a number of citizens were killed by a party of British troops , viz . by James Lovell , Joseph Warren ...
... March , with re- flections , 481 ; persons proscribed at , Boston orations " -in commemoration of the 5th of March , 1770 , when a number of citizens were killed by a party of British troops , viz . by James Lovell , Joseph Warren ...
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... MARCH 1770 ; WHEN A NUMBER OF CITIZENS WERE KILLED BY A PARTY OF BRITISH TROOPS , QUARTERED AMONG THEN , IN TIME OF PEACE . ORATION , DELIVERED AT BOSTON , APnil 2 , 1771 , BY JAMES LOVELL , A. M. Omnes homines natura Libertati student ...
... MARCH 1770 ; WHEN A NUMBER OF CITIZENS WERE KILLED BY A PARTY OF BRITISH TROOPS , QUARTERED AMONG THEN , IN TIME OF PEACE . ORATION , DELIVERED AT BOSTON , APnil 2 , 1771 , BY JAMES LOVELL , A. M. Omnes homines natura Libertati student ...
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... March the æra of the resurrec danger of the savage natives : but this falls not tion of your birthrights , which have been murdered within my present purpose . They were secure by by the very strength that nursed them in their sea ...
... March the æra of the resurrec danger of the savage natives : but this falls not tion of your birthrights , which have been murdered within my present purpose . They were secure by by the very strength that nursed them in their sea ...
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... MARCH , without their consent , even in the smallest trifle , 1770 , CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN — The horrors of they may also , without their consent , be deprived of every thing they possess , although never so va luable , never so dear ...
... MARCH , without their consent , even in the smallest trifle , 1770 , CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN — The horrors of they may also , without their consent , be deprived of every thing they possess , although never so va luable , never so dear ...
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... MARCH 5 , 1773 , BY DR . BENJAMIN CHURCH . Impius hæc culta novalia miles habebit ? Barbarus bas segetes ? in quo discordia cives perduxit miseros ? in queis consevimus agros ? O ! SOCII Virgil , Ecl . I. O passi graviora , dabit Deus ...
... MARCH 5 , 1773 , BY DR . BENJAMIN CHURCH . Impius hæc culta novalia miles habebit ? Barbarus bas segetes ? in quo discordia cives perduxit miseros ? in queis consevimus agros ? O ! SOCII Virgil , Ecl . I. O passi graviora , dabit Deus ...
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