The History of Great Britain, from the Death of George II to the Coronation of George IV: Designed as a Continuation of Hume and Smollett |
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Страница 156 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it ; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
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Страница 380 - Already these free men show their discontent, and the repugnance which they have to bear arms against their brothers, the French. Well! we will fly to their succour; we will make a descent on the island; we will lodge there fifty thousand caps of liberty; we will plant there the sacred tree, and we will stretch out our arms to our republican brethren ; the tyranny of their government will soon be destroyed. Let every one of us be strongly impressed with this idea! — Monge.
Страница 177 - America, and shall choose to become members of any of these states ; and they shall be protected in the free exercise of their respective religions, and be invested with the rights, privileges and immunities of natives, as established by the laws of these states ; and, moreover, that this Congress will provide, for every such person, fifty acres of unappropriated lands in some of these states, to be held by him and his heirs in absolute property.
Страница 171 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
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| Заглавие | The History of Great Britain, from the Death of George II to the Coronation of George IV: Designed as a Continuation of Hume and Smollett |
| Автор | James Rodger Miller |
| Издател | Thomas Davis, 1844 |
| Оригиналът е от | Харвардският университет |
| Цифровизирана на | 5 май 2008 |
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