Life of Alexander Hamilton: A History of the Republic of the United States of America, as Traced in His Writings and in Those of His Contemporaries, 第 1 巻Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879 |
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... present successes . France alone , looking into the future , found consolation for her losses in the assurance that , through them , the birth of an empire able to cope with her late enemy , was near . The recent efforts of the colonies ...
... present successes . France alone , looking into the future , found consolation for her losses in the assurance that , through them , the birth of an empire able to cope with her late enemy , was near . The recent efforts of the colonies ...
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... present advised him of their unsuccess- ful efforts with the assemblies for the establishment of such a fund ; gave it as their opinion that it can never be done without the aid of parliament ; ' and unanimously recommended that it ...
... present advised him of their unsuccess- ful efforts with the assemblies for the establishment of such a fund ; gave it as their opinion that it can never be done without the aid of parliament ; ' and unanimously recommended that it ...
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... present weakness , submit to the impositions of ministerial power , but they will certainly hate that power as tyrannical , and , as soon as they are able , will throw it off . " Conscious of her strength , inflated with her successes ...
... present weakness , submit to the impositions of ministerial power , but they will certainly hate that power as tyrannical , and , as soon as they are able , will throw it off . " Conscious of her strength , inflated with her successes ...
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... present , assailed them and were resisted . Attempts on the pole were repeated , and The leaders were Sears , McDougall , Lamb . * 20 to 1 . VOL . I. - 3 at last , though sentinels of the citizens had been HAMILTON . 33.
... present , assailed them and were resisted . Attempts on the pole were repeated , and The leaders were Sears , McDougall , Lamb . * 20 to 1 . VOL . I. - 3 at last , though sentinels of the citizens had been HAMILTON . 33.
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... present or not , for to confess my weakness , Ned , my am- bition is prevalent , so that I contemn the grovelling con- dition of a clerk , or the like , to which my fortune con- demns me , and would willingly risk my life , though not ...
... present or not , for to confess my weakness , Ned , my am- bition is prevalent , so that I contemn the grovelling con- dition of a clerk , or the like , to which my fortune con- demns me , and would willingly risk my life , though not ...
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436 ページ - For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings to a general mutiny and dispersion.
116 ページ - Britain; and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies for the preservation of internal peace, virtue and good order, as well as for the defence of their lives, liberties and properties, against the hostile invasions and cruel depredations of their enemies...
117 ページ - Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York.
61 ページ - ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
60 ページ - You have been told that we are seditious, impatient of government, and desirous of independency. Be assured that these are not facts, but calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall ever esteem a union with you to be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness...
60 ページ - ... tell you, that we will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world. Place us in the same situation that we were at the close of the last war, and our former harmony will be restored.
61 ページ - But from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent, to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue, on the sublects in America,...
371 ページ - Upon so interesting a subject," observes he, " I must speak plainly. The duty I owe my country, the ardent desire I have to promote its true interests, and justice to individuals, require this of me. General Conway's merit as an officer, and his importance in this army, exist more in his own imagination than in reality. For it is a maxim with him to leave no service of his own untold, nor to want any thing which is to be obtained by importunity.
127 ページ - ... for the enemy ? They would derive great conveniences from it, on the one hand, and much property would be destroyed on the other. It is an important question, but will admit of but little time for deliberation. At present, I dare say the enemy mean to preserve it if they can. If Congress, therefore, should resolve upon the destruction of it, the resolution should be a profound secret, as the knowledge will make a capital change in their plans.
282 ページ - ... to remove and secure, for the benefit of the owners, all goods and effects, which...