History of the United States: The American revolutionLittle, Brown and Company, 1853 - United States Siskiyou county only has volume 1 of this edition. |
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Page 157 - Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth...
Page 406 - But if he be resolved to assume the ' right of advising His Majesty, and directing the operations of the war, to what purpose are we called to this Council ? — When he talks of being responsible to the ' people he talks the language of the House of Commons, ' and forgets that at this Board he is only responsible to the King.
Page 63 - London, duty free ; but prohibited the erection or continuance of any mill, or other engine, for slitting or rolling iron, or any plating forge to work with a tilt-hammer, or any furnace for making steel, in the colonies, under the penalty of two hundred pounds.
Page 330 - The autumn evening was bright; and the general, under the clear starlight, visited his stations, to make his final inspection and utter his last words of encouragement. As he passed from ship to ship, he spoke to those in the boat with him of the poet Gray, and the 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard.' "I," said he, "would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French tomorrow...
Page 335 - how long shall I survive ? " " Ten or twelve hours, perhaps less." " So much the better ; I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.
Page 10 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, .He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Page 312 - Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess.
Page 331 - ... trees that covered the precipitous declivity, and, after a little firing, dispersed the picket which guarded the height. The rest ascended safely by the pathway. A battery of four guns on the left was abandoned to Colonel Howe. When Townshend's division disembarked, the English had already gained one of the roads to Quebec, and, advancing in front of the forest, Wolfe stood at daybreak with his invincible battalions on the plains of Abraham, the battlefield of empire. " It can be but a small...
Page 107 - Fathers, both you and the English are white : we live in a country between, therefore the land belongs to neither one nor the other : but the Great Being above allowed it to be a place of residence for us ; so fathers, I desire you to withdraw, as I have done our brothers the English, for I will keep you at arm's length.
Page 454 - Go forth, then, language of Milton and Hampden, language of my country, take possession of the North American continent ! Gladden the waste places with every tone that has been rightly struck on the English lyre, with every English word that has been spoken well for liberty and for man! Give an echo to the now silent and solitary mountains ; gush out...