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 páginas |
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... continent , for the security of their common interest . May suc- cess ever attend their generous endeavors . But permit me here to suggest a general congress of deputies , from the several houses of assembly , on the continent , as the ...
... continent , for the security of their common interest . May suc- cess ever attend their generous endeavors . But permit me here to suggest a general congress of deputies , from the several houses of assembly , on the continent , as the ...
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... continent had been culti cord , envy , hatred and revenge , with civil war close vated and defended : when the hardy adventurers in their rear . justly expected that they and their descendants should peaceably have enjoyed the harvest ...
... continent had been culti cord , envy , hatred and revenge , with civil war close vated and defended : when the hardy adventurers in their rear . justly expected that they and their descendants should peaceably have enjoyed the harvest ...
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... continent . If charters are not deemed sacred , how miserably precarious is every thing founded upon them . rights or perish in the generous struggle . How- ever difficult the combat , you never will decline it when freedom is the prize ...
... continent . If charters are not deemed sacred , how miserably precarious is every thing founded upon them . rights or perish in the generous struggle . How- ever difficult the combat , you never will decline it when freedom is the prize ...
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... continent in a single cam - enemies exulting o'er his corpse , beautiful even in paign , with a single regiment , they have proceed - death , when we remember that , destitute of the ed - one mile and an half in the conquest of it ...
... continent in a single cam - enemies exulting o'er his corpse , beautiful even in paign , with a single regiment , they have proceed - death , when we remember that , destitute of the ed - one mile and an half in the conquest of it ...
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... continent . to that luxury , which effeminates the mind and body , they are capable of enduring incredible hard ships ; with eagerness they rush into the field of were in our power to reward you for your patrio- battle , and brave ...
... continent . to that luxury , which effeminates the mind and body , they are capable of enduring incredible hard ships ; with eagerness they rush into the field of were in our power to reward you for your patrio- battle , and brave ...
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Página 311 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Página 84 - That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws; and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Página 389 - The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of Hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts : and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Página 310 - And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
Página 360 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
Página 310 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending...
Página 107 - No state shall engage in any war without the consent of the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the united states in congress assembled can be consulted...
Página 310 - These are the implements of war and subjugation, the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Página 244 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Página 360 - States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency ; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted...