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Page xiii
... force to the growing discontent , but provoked the organizing of re- sistance . Massachusetts proposed a Colonial Congress at New York , which first met on the 7th of October 1765 , and twelve days afterwards , on the 19th of October ...
... force to the growing discontent , but provoked the organizing of re- sistance . Massachusetts proposed a Colonial Congress at New York , which first met on the 7th of October 1765 , and twelve days afterwards , on the 19th of October ...
Page xxii
... Could they have acted as a united body , could Burke and Fox have joined forces in harmony with Chatham and Shelburne , they might have thwarted the king and pre- vented the rupture with America . But George III . xxii INTRODUCTION.
... Could they have acted as a united body , could Burke and Fox have joined forces in harmony with Chatham and Shelburne , they might have thwarted the king and pre- vented the rupture with America . But George III . xxii INTRODUCTION.
Page xxx
... force in resisting the progress of reform , find themselves at length compelled to yield ; and then , so soon as they have exhausted the artifices of their petty schemes , and , by their tardy and ungraceful con- cessions , have sown ...
... force in resisting the progress of reform , find themselves at length compelled to yield ; and then , so soon as they have exhausted the artifices of their petty schemes , and , by their tardy and ungraceful con- cessions , have sown ...
Page xxxv
... forces , and perhaps of foreign forces . He was strongly of opinion that such armies , first victorious over Englishmen , in a con- flict for English constitutional rights and privileges , and after- wards habituated ( though in America ) ...
... forces , and perhaps of foreign forces . He was strongly of opinion that such armies , first victorious over Englishmen , in a con- flict for English constitutional rights and privileges , and after- wards habituated ( though in America ) ...
Page xxxvii
... force of the argument ; no commonplace is dressed up into a vague sublimity . The cause of freedom is made to wear its own proper robe of equity , self - control , and reasonableness . Not one , but all those great idols of the ...
... force of the argument ; no commonplace is dressed up into a vague sublimity . The cause of freedom is made to wear its own proper robe of equity , self - control , and reasonableness . Not one , but all those great idols of the ...
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