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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... arms.- That the House or its Committee had proceeded to a ftep fraught with the moft alarming confequences , in appointing guards without his approbation or con -- / fent , under pretence of protecting the magazine , thereby fhewing a ...
... arms.- That the House or its Committee had proceeded to a ftep fraught with the moft alarming confequences , in appointing guards without his approbation or con -- / fent , under pretence of protecting the magazine , thereby fhewing a ...
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... arms and ftores , and by what was no lefs effential than any other matter , their own example , and their endeavours to remove that general delufion which kept the minds of the people in a continual ferment , and thereby to abolish that ...
... arms and ftores , and by what was no lefs effential than any other matter , their own example , and their endeavours to remove that general delufion which kept the minds of the people in a continual ferment , and thereby to abolish that ...
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... arms ; and that government had more friends in the colony than there really were . This has been an univerfal mistake all along in the ideas of government . They have continually imagined , and alfo declared , that their friends in the ...
... arms ; and that government had more friends in the colony than there really were . This has been an univerfal mistake all along in the ideas of government . They have continually imagined , and alfo declared , that their friends in the ...
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... arms , that they were obliged precipitately to quit their station , with the lofs of fome men , and of a tender which was taken . Upon the seventh of November , in confequence of this repulfe , a proclamation was iffued by the Gover ...
... arms , that they were obliged precipitately to quit their station , with the lofs of fome men , and of a tender which was taken . Upon the seventh of November , in confequence of this repulfe , a proclamation was iffued by the Gover ...
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... arms against the whole people , and to encounter them , upon an equal footing in the field ;. for however ill - founded diftinctions with refpect to co- lour may appear , when examined by the teft of na- ture , reafon , and philofophy ...
... arms against the whole people , and to encounter them , upon an equal footing in the field ;. for however ill - founded diftinctions with refpect to co- lour may appear , when examined by the teft of na- ture , reafon , and philofophy ...
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