Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volumen44The Society, 1911 |
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... interests of merchants and manufacturers are not controlled by moral considerations . The workingmen and the lower middle class sided with the North , but they were , for the most part , mute and without suffrage . As to the gov ...
... interests of merchants and manufacturers are not controlled by moral considerations . The workingmen and the lower middle class sided with the North , but they were , for the most part , mute and without suffrage . As to the gov ...
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... interests . Ignorance or half knowledge , whether in prime minister , editor , or workingman , meant that each would feed upon what best suited his wishes or prejudices . Some of those who could have led , proved blind . Carlyle threw ...
... interests . Ignorance or half knowledge , whether in prime minister , editor , or workingman , meant that each would feed upon what best suited his wishes or prejudices . Some of those who could have led , proved blind . Carlyle threw ...
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... interest : - I saw , with the greatest interest , the negro troops encamped close to the scene of one of their most gallant exploits the storming of the entrenchment on Newmarket Height . There can be no doubt , I think , that these men ...
... interest : - I saw , with the greatest interest , the negro troops encamped close to the scene of one of their most gallant exploits the storming of the entrenchment on Newmarket Height . There can be no doubt , I think , that these men ...
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... interest of the ship- owners does not coincide with the interest of England , much less with the dictates of English honour . The nation has been pro- nounced unhappy which has women and children for its rulers . But more unhappy is the ...
... interest of the ship- owners does not coincide with the interest of England , much less with the dictates of English honour . The nation has been pro- nounced unhappy which has women and children for its rulers . But more unhappy is the ...
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... interest . Such a contrast is also one now very easy to make , for not only is hind - sight , so called , proverbially wiser and more penetrating than fore - sight , but a century's perspective lends to events and situations a proper ...
... interest . Such a contrast is also one now very easy to make , for not only is hind - sight , so called , proverbially wiser and more penetrating than fore - sight , but a century's perspective lends to events and situations a proper ...
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Página 241 - God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Página 270 - I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh, and drink the blood of the Son of Man, ye have no life in you...
Página 254 - Had I been vested with absolute power in this State, I have often said and still think that I would last Spring have desolated all Long Island, Staten Island, the City and County of New York and all that part of the County of West Chester which lies below the mountains.
Página 160 - A View of the Evidence relative to the CONDUCT of the AMERICAN WAR under SIR WILLIAM HOWE...
Página 401 - I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Página 401 - In no event is a treaty to be purchased with money, by loan or otherwise ; there can be no safety in a treaty so obtained. A loan to the Republic would violate our neutrality ; and a douceur to the men now in power, might, by their successors, be urged as a reason for annulling the treaty, or as a precedent for further and repeated demands.
Página 168 - America, in the years 1777 and 1778, to different persons in England; containing observations on the general management of the war, and on the conduct of our principal commanders, in the revolted colonies.
Página 386 - Britain yet engages the alliance and co-operation of savages in war; but her Government has invariably disclaimed all countenance or authorization to her subjects to instigate them against us in time of peace. Yet, so it has happened, that, from the period of our established independence to this day, all the Indian wars with which we have been afflicted have been distinctly traceable to the instigation of English traders or agents.
Página 415 - The right must unquestionably be exercised with as little of personal harshness and of vexation in the mode as possible; but soften it as much as you can, it is still a right of force, though of lawful force—something in the nature of civil process, where force is employed, but a lawful force, which cannot lawfully be resisted.
Página 168 - Late Speaker of the House of Assembly of Pennsylvania. Before the House of Commons, in a committee on the American papers.