The American Revolution, 1763-1783: Being the Chapters and Passages Relating to America from the Author's History of England in the Eighteenth CenturyD. Appleton and Company, 1921 - 518 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ameri American army American cause American Diplomatic American loyalists American Revolution André appears arms Arnold Assembly assistance Benedict Arnold Boston Britain British British army Burke Canada capture Charleston Chatham Clinton colonists command commerce Congress Cornwallis Correspondence Crown declared defence duty Empire enemy England English enlist favour fleet force France Franklin French minister George George III Government Governor Governor Tryon Hist Ibid independence Indians inhabitants Jersey John Adams King land letter liberty Lord North Massachusetts measure ment military militia mother country nation negotiation never obliged obtain officers opinion opposition Parliament party patriotism peace Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia political province refused repeal Rhode Island Samuel Adams sent ships soldiers soon South Carolina Spain speedily spirit Stamp Act struggle taxation tion Tories town trade troops United Vergennes viii Virginia Washington Whigs whole wholly wrote York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 76 - Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their, happiness.
Página 492 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Página 161 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade ; you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burthen them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools ; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Página 468 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Página 90 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the Peers and the Crown to a tax, is only necessary to close with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Página 80 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
Página 254 - Our situation is truly distressing. The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and by companies at a time.
Página 162 - I can take upon me to assure you, notwithstanding insinuations to the contrary from men with factious and seditious views, that his Majesty's present administration have at no time entertained a design to propose to Parliament to lay any further taxes upon America for the purpose of raising a revenue...
Página 320 - This brought forth the only commissary in the purchasing line in this camp ; and, with him, this melancholy and alarming truth, that he had not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour!
Página 493 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.