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... Liberty in Boston , 1768 149. John Dickinson : The Pennsylvania Farmer's Remedy , 1768 150. Judge Richard Henderson : Riot of the North Carolina Regulators , 1770 151. John Tudor : An Eye - Witness of the Boston Massacre , 1770 152 ...
... Liberty in Boston , 1768 149. John Dickinson : The Pennsylvania Farmer's Remedy , 1768 150. Judge Richard Henderson : Riot of the North Carolina Regulators , 1770 151. John Tudor : An Eye - Witness of the Boston Massacre , 1770 152 ...
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... Liberty Tree , " 1775 160. Reverend Stephen Williams : A Troublous Year in a Country Village , 1776 161. " Plain English " : Reign of King Mob , 1775 162. Colonel Alexander Scammell : A Soldier's Love - Letter , 1777 163. Benjamin ...
... Liberty Tree , " 1775 160. Reverend Stephen Williams : A Troublous Year in a Country Village , 1776 161. " Plain English " : Reign of King Mob , 1775 162. Colonel Alexander Scammell : A Soldier's Love - Letter , 1777 163. Benjamin ...
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... Liberty Tree " ( No. 159 ) ; Dwight's " Columbia " ( No. 164 ) ; " Nathan Hale " ( No. 171 ) ; Stans- bury's " Lords of the Main " ( No. 182 ) ; Francis Hopkinson's " Battle of the Kegs " ( No. 196 ) . 4. Libraries of Sources in ...
... Liberty Tree " ( No. 159 ) ; Dwight's " Columbia " ( No. 164 ) ; " Nathan Hale " ( No. 171 ) ; Stans- bury's " Lords of the Main " ( No. 182 ) ; Francis Hopkinson's " Battle of the Kegs " ( No. 196 ) . 4. Libraries of Sources in ...
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... liberty to answer for our- selves ; we having commissionated and appointed Jahleel Brenton , Esq'r ( his Majesty's late Collector of his Customs in these parts ) , our Agent to answer to what shall be objected against us , or in any ...
... liberty to answer for our- selves ; we having commissionated and appointed Jahleel Brenton , Esq'r ( his Majesty's late Collector of his Customs in these parts ) , our Agent to answer to what shall be objected against us , or in any ...
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... Liberty , but when the good Providence of God brought about the Happy Revolution , they began a Jubilee of Joy , which has continued almost ever since . When the Protestant Succession in the Illustrious House of Hannover was in Danger ...
... Liberty , but when the good Providence of God brought about the Happy Revolution , they began a Jubilee of Joy , which has continued almost ever since . When the Protestant Succession in the Illustrious House of Hannover was in Danger ...
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Page 263 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 625 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them to His holy keeping.
Page 232 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 155 - Fines or Forfeitures due unto Us, fit Objects of Our Mercy, to pardon all such Offenders...
Page 401 - That all supplies to the Crown being free gifts of the people, it is unreasonable and inconsistent with the principles and spirit of the British Constitution, for the people of Great Britain to grant to His Majesty the property of the colonists.
Page 465 - The winds ceased to murmur; the thunders expired; Perfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along, And a voice as of angels, enchantingly sung: " Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies.
Page 116 - Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, or the stone of Help *, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
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Page 401 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
Page 489 - ... should not have been, the greatest part of the war, inferior to the enemy, indebted for our safety to their inactivity, enduring frequently the mortification of seeing inviting opportunities to ruin them pass unimproved for want of a force which the country was completely able to afford, and of seeing the country ravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitants plundered, abused, murdered, with impunity from the same cause.