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... enemy was protected under his sovereign's wing . A spirited memorial was now addressed to the throne by a committee of the provincial states in their favour . After adverting to the exile of the attornies general , when their innocence ...
... enemy was protected under his sovereign's wing . A spirited memorial was now addressed to the throne by a committee of the provincial states in their favour . After adverting to the exile of the attornies general , when their innocence ...
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... enemy . An artillery , formidable in appearance " from the width of its bore , but little to be dreaded , after the first discharge , from the slowness " with which these enormous pieces must be served , formed the principal batteries ...
... enemy . An artillery , formidable in appearance " from the width of its bore , but little to be dreaded , after the first discharge , from the slowness " with which these enormous pieces must be served , formed the principal batteries ...
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... enemy . But as the mention of such a prodi- " gious number of carriages may stagger the belief of the reader , I think myself obliged to state the necessity . For an army of 80,000 men there were carriages required for six months ...
... enemy . But as the mention of such a prodi- " gious number of carriages may stagger the belief of the reader , I think myself obliged to state the necessity . For an army of 80,000 men there were carriages required for six months ...
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... enemy to draw them from their ground , 20,000 of them descended from their rocky fastness ; and , giving the ... enemy's camp . † Hlaving , with much bravery overcome the resistance made to their ascent of the eminence on which it was ...
... enemy to draw them from their ground , 20,000 of them descended from their rocky fastness ; and , giving the ... enemy's camp . † Hlaving , with much bravery overcome the resistance made to their ascent of the eminence on which it was ...
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... enemy under the cloak of neutrality . But when her fleet had triumphed over the Turks , and that of her enemy was destroyed at Cisme ; when to these successes were added those of her armies in Moldavia , Walachia , and Bessarabia , the ...
... enemy under the cloak of neutrality . But when her fleet had triumphed over the Turks , and that of her enemy was destroyed at Cisme ; when to these successes were added those of her armies in Moldavia , Walachia , and Bessarabia , the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 230 - ... that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved...
Página 193 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Página 186 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.
Página 150 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them, in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Página 7 - Permit me, sire, further to observe, that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the City of London in particular, and to withdraw your confidence...
Página 277 - You cannot conciliate America by your present measures. You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.
Página 277 - I CANNOT, my lords, I WILL NOT join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment : it is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of TRUTH.
Página 296 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy!
Página 141 - Principes pro victoria pugnant; comites pro principe. Si civitas, in qua orti sunt, longa pace et otio torpeat plerique nobilium...
Página 277 - As to the disposition of foreign powers, which is asserted to be pacific and friendly, let us judge, my Lords, rather by their actions and the nature of things than by interested assertions. The uniform assistance supplied to America by France suggests a different conclusion. The most important interests of France, in aggrandising and enriching herself with what she most wants, supplies of every naval store from America, must inspire her with different sentiments.