Library of American History: History of the United StatesAmerican History Society, 1900 |
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Page 196
... patriots-- despising the bigotry and intolerance of their countrymen , fled for refuge to the New World , and there by the banks of the Housatonic , the Hudson , the Delaware , the Potomac , the Ashley and the Savannah , taught the lore ...
... patriots-- despising the bigotry and intolerance of their countrymen , fled for refuge to the New World , and there by the banks of the Housatonic , the Hudson , the Delaware , the Potomac , the Ashley and the Savannah , taught the lore ...
Page 212
... in fifteen or twenty days ! Slow - going old patriots ! The chief executive of the new confederation was to be a governor - general appointed and supported by the King . The legislative authority was vested in a Congress , to 212 HISTORY ...
... in fifteen or twenty days ! Slow - going old patriots ! The chief executive of the new confederation was to be a governor - general appointed and supported by the King . The legislative authority was vested in a Congress , to 212 HISTORY ...
Page 239
... patriot Samuel Adams . He produced a powerful argu- ment , showing conclusively that under the British constitu- tion taxation and representation are inseparable . Meanwhile vessels from the English navy , under direction of the Ad ...
... patriot Samuel Adams . He produced a powerful argu- ment , showing conclusively that under the British constitu- tion taxation and representation are inseparable . Meanwhile vessels from the English navy , under direction of the Ad ...
Page 243
... patriots had the best of the argument . It was a moment of intense interest . The legislative assembly of the oldest and most populous of all the colonies was about to act . Two future Presidents of the United States were in the ...
... patriots had the best of the argument . It was a moment of intense interest . The legislative assembly of the oldest and most populous of all the colonies was about to act . Two future Presidents of the United States were in the ...
Page 245
... patriot merchants at New York , Boston and Philadelphia took up the cause and entered into an agreement to purchase no more goods of Great Britain until the Stamp Act should be repealed . Meanwhile the ministry had to meet the rising ...
... patriot merchants at New York , Boston and Philadelphia took up the cause and entered into an agreement to purchase no more goods of Great Britain until the Stamp Act should be repealed . Meanwhile the ministry had to meet the rising ...
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Page 404 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art or dictated by force; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts.
Page 315 - And tall, and strong, and swift of foot were they, Beyond the dwarfing city's pale abortions, Because their thoughts had never been the prey Of care or gain : the green woods were their portions ; No sinking spirits told them they grew grey ; No fashion made them apes of her distortions : Simple they were, not savage ; and their rifles, Though very true, were not yet used for trifles.
Page 226 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 314 - Of all men, saving Sylla the Man-slayer, Who passes for in life and death most lucky, Of the great names which in our faces stare, The General...
Page 140 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 315 - He was not all alone ; around him grew A sylvan tribe of children of the chase, Whose young, unwakened world was ever new ; Nor sword nor sorrow yet had left a trace On her unwrinkled brow, nor could you view A frown on nature's or on human face : The freeborn forest found and kept them free, And fresh as is a torrent or a tree. And tall, and strong, and swift of foot, were they, Beyond the...
Page 315 - T is true he shrank from men even of his nation, When they built up unto his darling trees, — He moved some hundred miles off, for a station Where there were fewer houses and more ease; The inconvenience of civilisation Is, that you neither can be pleased nor please; But where he met the individual man, He show'd himself as kind as mortal can.
Page 439 - John Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell, and Albert Gallatin...
Page 253 - Delaplace began to speak again, but was peremptorily interrupted ; and, at sight of Allen's drawn sword near his head, he gave up the garrison, ordering his men to be paraded without arms. Thus...
Page 265 - This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.