 However superior to me in general knowledge and experience, the respectable body of this house may be, yet I claim to know more of America than most of you, having seen and been conversant in that country. The people, I believe, are as truly loyal, as...  Lives of Distinguished Shoemakers - Page 621849 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Howland - Canada - 1877 - 848 pages
...you, having seen and been conversant in that country. The people there arc as truly loyal, I believe, as any subjects the king has ; but a people jealous...of their liberties, and who will vindicate them, if they should be violated. But the subject is too delicate. I will say no more.' " It was the general... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - America - 1877 - 396 pages
...protected by your arms ? They have nobly taken up arms in your defence. . . . They are, I believe, as truly loyal as any subjects the king has, but a people jealous of their liberties, and THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION. who will vindicate them, if ever they should be violated." This bold... | |
 | Great orators - 1881 - 242 pages
...America than most of you, having seen and been conversant with that country. The people are, I believe, as truly loyal as any subjects the King has, but a...of their liberties, and who will vindicate them if they should ever be violated.' The colonies rose in open resistance. The news of this resistance reached... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - United States - 1881 - 676 pages
...in that country. The people there are u truly loyal, I believe, as any subjects the king has ; hut a people jealous of their liberties, and who will vindicate them, if they should be violated. — But the subject is too delicate. I will say uo more." united in the view... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...know more of America than most of you, having seen that country, and been conversant with its affairs. The people, I believe, are as truly loyal as any subjects the king has ; but they are a people jealous of their liberties, and who, if those liberties should ever be violated,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pages
...know more of America than most of you, having seen that country, and been conversant with its affairs. The people, I believe, are as truly loyal as any subjects the king has ; but they are a people jealous of their liberties, and who, if those liberties should ever be violated,... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Presidents - 1884 - 900 pages
...you, having seen and been conversant in that country. The people there are as truly loyal, I believe, as any subjects the king has ; but a people jealous...of their liberties, and who will vindicate them, if they should be violated. But the subject is too delicate. I will say no more." Imagine the effect upon... | |
 | John Bowles Daly - Great Britain - 1886 - 272 pages
...accompany them still. . . . I claim to know more of America, having seen and being conversant with the country. The people, I believe, are as truly loyal...will vindicate them if ever they should be violated." All the colonies had charters from the Crown, empowering them to hold legislative assemblies, elect... | |
 | Military art and science - 1888 - 648 pages
...Colonel Isaac Barre, who had served with General Wolfe in Canada in Quebec. " Its people," he says, " are as truly loyal as any subjects the King has, but...will vindicate them if ever they should be violated." Doubtless, at that time, the vast majority of them were so. There is little evidence that up to the... | |
 | John Bowles Daly - Great Britain - 1892 - 276 pages
...accompany them still. . . . I claim to know more of America, having seen and being conversant with the country. The people, I believe, are as truly loyal...will vindicate them if ever they should be violated." All the colonies had charters from the Crown, empowering them to hold legislative assemblies, elect... | |
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