An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783: Together with Notices of Highland Regiments and Biographical Sketches

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Helman-Taylor, 1900 - 459 pāgines
 

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Pāgina 295 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Pāgina 152 - The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Pāgina 295 - This glorious spirit of whiggism animates three millions in America ; who prefer poverty with liberty, to gilded chains and sordid affluence ; and who will die in defence of their rights as men, as freemen.
Pāgina 453 - HIS MAJESTY having taken into consideration the said Report, and the Draft Charter accompanying it, was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the...
Pāgina 452 - Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for plantation Affairs dated the 9"' of this Instant in the words following Viz...
Pāgina 290 - But, as this whole country is towards the sea unguarded, and on the frontier is kept uneasy by the French, these dangerous neighbors are the reason why the love of these colonies for their metropolis does not utterly decline. The English government has therefore reason, to regard the French in North America as the chief power that urges their colonies to submission.
Pāgina 173 - Constitution, and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary and oppressive acts of the British Parliament, until a reconciliation between Great Britain and America, on constitutional principles (which we most ardently desire) can be obtained...
Pāgina 453 - Company, their lordships do agree humbly to report as their opinion to your Majesty, that the said petition should be dismissed".
Pāgina 308 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North. I called it forth, and drew into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men — men who, when left by your jealousy, became a prey to the artifices of your enemies, and had gone nigh to have overturned the state in the war before the last. These men, in the last war, were brought to combat on your side. They served with fidelity, as they fought...
Pāgina 235 - And braved the perils of the stormy seas, In search of wealth, of freedom, and of ease! Oh! none can tell but they who sadly share The bosom's anguish, and its wild despair, What dire distress awaits the hardy bands, That venture first on bleak and desert lands. How great the pain, the danger, and the toil, Which mark the first rude culture of the soil.

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