An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof with Its Various Successes and Disappointments on Both Sides, Volume 2Robson, 1780 |
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... determined , confcience , which makes cowards of all guilty perfons , had made his Lord- ship , for fear of confequences , retire with his Lady on board the Fowey man of war , which then lay near York - Town , on the river of the fame ...
... determined , confcience , which makes cowards of all guilty perfons , had made his Lord- ship , for fear of confequences , retire with his Lady on board the Fowey man of war , which then lay near York - Town , on the river of the fame ...
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... determination they referred the affair to the General Congrefs , before whom they would lay the paper . To them alfo they referred the difcovery of the proper mode of reprefenting their well - founded grievances , which his Lordship ...
... determination they referred the affair to the General Congrefs , before whom they would lay the paper . To them alfo they referred the difcovery of the proper mode of reprefenting their well - founded grievances , which his Lordship ...
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... determined , at the peril of the extremeft hazards , to maintain their just rights and privileges ; fo on the other hand , it was their fixed and unalterable refolu- tion to disband fuch forces as were for the defence of the colony ...
... determined , at the peril of the extremeft hazards , to maintain their just rights and privileges ; fo on the other hand , it was their fixed and unalterable refolu- tion to disband fuch forces as were for the defence of the colony ...
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... determine the point fpeedily , would each par- ty ftand to her impartial dictates ; but paffion for the moft part takes the lead , and the voice of reafon is but little regarded . Yet it will be found next to a maxim , that the common ...
... determine the point fpeedily , would each par- ty ftand to her impartial dictates ; but paffion for the moft part takes the lead , and the voice of reafon is but little regarded . Yet it will be found next to a maxim , that the common ...
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... determined though he fhould be obliged for the prefent to relinquish , not to abandon his hopes , nor entirely to lofe fight of the country which he had governed . Being joined with those friends of government who had rendered ...
... determined though he fhould be obliged for the prefent to relinquish , not to abandon his hopes , nor entirely to lofe fight of the country which he had governed . Being joined with those friends of government who had rendered ...
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