Life and Times of Joseph WarrenLittle, Brown, 1865 - 558 páginas |
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... America Expression of Popular Feeling . Gage fortifies Boston Neck . . Joy of the Patriots 367 358 Surprise of Gage . 367 358 Violence of the Tories . 368 359 Union of the Colonies 369 CHAPTER XII . MASSACHUSETTS AND THE GEneral ...
... America Expression of Popular Feeling . Gage fortifies Boston Neck . . Joy of the Patriots 367 358 Surprise of Gage . 367 358 Violence of the Tories . 368 359 Union of the Colonies 369 CHAPTER XII . MASSACHUSETTS AND THE GEneral ...
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... America , in which the people had so much reason to be alarmed as the present . The whole continent is inflamed to the highest degree . I believe this country may be esteemed as truly loyal in their principles as any in the universe ...
... America , in which the people had so much reason to be alarmed as the present . The whole continent is inflamed to the highest degree . I believe this country may be esteemed as truly loyal in their principles as any in the universe ...
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... America been prepared in this manner for the Stamp Act , it might perhaps have met with a more favorable reception ; but it is absurd to attempt to impose so cruel a yoke on a people who are so near to the state of original equality ...
... America been prepared in this manner for the Stamp Act , it might perhaps have met with a more favorable reception ; but it is absurd to attempt to impose so cruel a yoke on a people who are so near to the state of original equality ...
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... America . With these comprehensive views and high aims , Warren engaged in public life by enrolling himself in the band of popular leaders whose service to the country associated Faneuil Hall with the idea of civil freedom , and fixed ...
... America . With these comprehensive views and high aims , Warren engaged in public life by enrolling himself in the band of popular leaders whose service to the country associated Faneuil Hall with the idea of civil freedom , and fixed ...
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... America , with the king as the common chief - magis- trate , whose rightful prerogative was in force in each colony as it was in England . There was this differ- ence between the two parties : the theory set up for parliament was ...
... America , with the king as the common chief - magis- trate , whose rightful prerogative was in force in each colony as it was in England . There was this differ- ence between the two parties : the theory set up for parliament was ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action addressed adjourned affairs America appointed army assembly Bancroft Bernard Boston Gazette brethren Britain British Cambridge cause Charlestown charter Colonel colonies commissioners committee of correspondence committee of safety common consignees constitutional continent Continental Congress council court Crown declared duty East-India enemies England Faneuil Hall freedom friends Gage gentlemen governor honor House Hutchinson inhabitants James Otis John Adams John Hancock Joseph Warren Josiah Quincy journals June justice king land letter liberty Lord Dartmouth March Massachusetts measures meeting ment ministry mittee o'clock occasion officers opinion oration Otis paper parliament party passed patriots persons petition political popular leaders printed proceedings province Provincial Congress received regiments reply resolution resolves Samuel Adams says selectmen sent soldiers spirit Street Suffolk resolves Thomas Cushing tion Tory town of Boston town-meeting troops union urged voted Whigs William wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 215 - 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 425 - On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.
Página 272 - Whoever supposes that shouts and hosannas will terminate the trials of the day entertains a childish fancy. We must be grossly ignorant of the importance and value of the prize for which we contend; we must be equally ignorant of the...
Página 488 - Mine enemies: and I will turn My hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Página 538 - None but they who set a just value upon the blessings of LIBERTY are worthy to enjoy her. In vain we toiled; in vain we fought ; we bled in vain; if you, our offspring, want valor to repel the assaults of her invaders.
Página 540 - — and the sky, on which you closed your eyes, was cloudless. But — ah ! — Him ! the first great Martyr in this great cause ! Him ! the premature victim of his own self-devoting heart ! Him ! the head of our civil councils, and the destined leader of our military bands ; whom nothing brought hither, but the unquenchable fire of his own spirit ; Him...
Página 540 - Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom; falling ere he saw the star of his country rise; pouring out his generous blood like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage!— how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle the utterance of thy name! Our poor work may perish; but thine shall endure! This monument may moulder away; the solid ground it rests upon may sink down to a level with the sea; but thy memory shall not fail! Wheresoever...
Página 384 - October it was resolved, though not unanimously, " that this congress approve the opposition of the inhabitants of the Massachusetts Bay to the execution of the late acts of parliament ; and if the same shall be attempted to be carried into execution by force, in such case, all America ought to support them in their opposition.
Página 431 - We were so careful that our meetings should be kept secret, that every time we met, every person swore upon the bible, that th,ey would not discover any of our transactions, but to Messrs. HANCOCK, ADAMS, Doctors WARREN, CHURCH, and one or two more.
Página 386 - The true spirit of liberty was never so universally diffused through all ranks and orders of people in any country on the face of the earth, as it now is through all North America.