The Life of Elbridge Gerry: With Contemporary Letters. To the Close of the American Revolution, Količina 1Wells and Lilly, 1828 - 520 strani |
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... zeal as a partisan . The events narrated in this volume may correct that impression and prove the validity of his title to those large honours which his country bestowed upon him . The period embraced in it is that PREFACE . XV.
... zeal as a partisan . The events narrated in this volume may correct that impression and prove the validity of his title to those large honours which his country bestowed upon him . The period embraced in it is that PREFACE . XV.
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... honour of a maternal ancestor . After receiving the rudiments of education at the com- mon town schools , he entered Harvard College before he had completed his fourteenth year , and received its first honours in 1762 . Little is known ...
... honour of a maternal ancestor . After receiving the rudiments of education at the com- mon town schools , he entered Harvard College before he had completed his fourteenth year , and received its first honours in 1762 . Little is known ...
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... honour and office that could be conferred on them by the people , holding them up to shame , and withholding every connexion with their families and associates ; should these be published in the newspapers , and each town in the ...
... honour and office that could be conferred on them by the people , holding them up to shame , and withholding every connexion with their families and associates ; should these be published in the newspapers , and each town in the ...
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... honour- able service with the veteran statesmen and mas- ter spirits of the time . * * The movement of these committees is indicated in the letter subjoined . Mr. Cushing to Mr. Gerry . BOSTON , SEPT . 29 , 1773 . SIR , I am desired to ...
... honour- able service with the veteran statesmen and mas- ter spirits of the time . * * The movement of these committees is indicated in the letter subjoined . Mr. Cushing to Mr. Gerry . BOSTON , SEPT . 29 , 1773 . SIR , I am desired to ...
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... honour to yourselves and ad- vantage to your country . But , gentlemen , suffer us to ask , whether you well considered , that al- though you derived your being as a committee of correspondence from that particular town which appointed ...
... honour to yourselves and ad- vantage to your country . But , gentlemen , suffer us to ask , whether you well considered , that al- though you derived your being as a committee of correspondence from that particular town which appointed ...
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adopted affairs aforesaid American appear appointed arms army assembly attention authority BENJAMIN LINCOLN bills Boston Britain British cause character citizens civil colonies commander commerce committee of correspondence conduct connexion considered constitution continental continental army continental congress councils court Dana danger DEAR SIR declaration delegates duty Elbridge Gerry enemy established esteem excited exertion favour feel FRANCIS DANA friends gentlemen give governour gress Hancock honour hope humble servant important independence interest JOHN ADAMS John Hancock judge labour legislature letter liberty Marblehead marquis de Lafayette Massachusetts matter measures ment military militia mind ministers nation necessary New-England New-York officers opinion patriotism peace persons Philadelphia political port present province provincial congress received resolve respect revolution SAMUEL ADAMS sentiments South Carolina spirit superiour thing tion town treaty troops United vessels vote Watertown wish your's
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Stran 198 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Stran 393 - STATES, and to consist of one delegate from each state; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction...
Stran 326 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Stran 198 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Stran 203 - Resolved, That the Declaration, passed on the fourth, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and style of ' THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA '; and that the same, when engrossed be signed by every member of Congress.
Stran 70 - I do hereby in his majesty's name, offer and promise his most gracious pardon, to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
Stran 396 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present Confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Stran 292 - Although it is of the utmost importance to the peace and commerce of the United States that Canada and Nova Scotia should be ceded, and more particularly that their equal common right to the fisheries should be guarantied to them, yet a desire of terminating the war hath induced us not to make the acquisition of these objects an ultimatum on the present occasion.
Stran 200 - To say that he performed his great work well, would be doing him injustice. To say that he did excellently well, admirably well, would be inadequate and halting praise. Let us rather say, that he so discharged the duty assigned him, that all Americans may well rejoice that the work of drawing the title-deed of their liberties devolved on his hands.
Stran 126 - Get money, money still! And then let Virtue follow if she will.