HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT1858 |
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Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
act of parliament American appeared appointed April arms army assembly authority Boston Britain British Cambridge Carolina CHAP CHAPTER Charlestown Chatham civil colonies command committee of safety Concord confidence Connecticut consent continental congress continued council court crown declared defence delegates Dunmore elected enemy England English fire force formed France Franklin freedom friends Gage governor Hill honor hope hundred independence Indians inhabitants John Adams Joseph Warren June king king's land Lexington liberty Lord North Massachusetts measures ment military militia minister ministry nation never officers party patriot peace Peyton Randolph Prescott proposed province provincial congress Quebec Quebec act rebellion received redoubt refused regiments repeal resistance resolution resolved Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams sent Sept slaves soldiers South Carolina spirit thousand tion town troops unanimously union Vergennes Virginia vote Warren whole wounded wrote York
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 216 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Σελίδα 268 - My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Σελίδα 242 - they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Σελίδα 129 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Σελίδα 274 - ... if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us.
Σελίδα 266 - And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Σελίδα 274 - 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.
Σελίδα 200 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Σελίδα 269 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Σελίδα 53 - House as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine Interposition for averting the heavy Calamity, which...