The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, 第 1 卷J. Crissy, 1836 |
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第 11 頁
... militia were un- availing . Attentive only to individual security , and regardless of the common danger , they could not be drawn from their families . Instead of assembling in arms , and obtaining safety by meeting their invaders , the ...
... militia were un- availing . Attentive only to individual security , and regardless of the common danger , they could not be drawn from their families . Instead of assembling in arms , and obtaining safety by meeting their invaders , the ...
第 13 頁
... militia could be raised . The council unanimously advised a continuance at Win- chester . Lord Fairfax , who commanded the militia of that and the ad- jacent counties , had ordered them to his assistance ; but they were slow in ...
... militia could be raised . The council unanimously advised a continuance at Win- chester . Lord Fairfax , who commanded the militia of that and the ad- jacent counties , had ordered them to his assistance ; but they were slow in ...
第 15 頁
... militia . The fatal consequences of this system are thus stated by him , in a letter to the lieutenant governor : " The inha- bitants are so sensible of their danger , if left to the protection of these people , that not a man will stay ...
... militia . The fatal consequences of this system are thus stated by him , in a letter to the lieutenant governor : " The inha- bitants are so sensible of their danger , if left to the protection of these people , that not a man will stay ...
第 17 頁
... militia for any military purpose , and demonstrated the superiority of an offensive system over that which had been pursued . This statement was probably presented by Colonel Washington in person , who was permitted , during the winter ...
... militia for any military purpose , and demonstrated the superiority of an offensive system over that which had been pursued . This statement was probably presented by Colonel Washington in person , who was permitted , during the winter ...
第 36 頁
... militia * In this state of things , several officers , supposing that commissions and rank might depend on recruiting men , began , without permission , to recruit soldiers , to serve par- ticularly under the officer enlisting them ...
... militia * In this state of things , several officers , supposing that commissions and rank might depend on recruiting men , began , without permission , to recruit soldiers , to serve par- ticularly under the officer enlisting them ...
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第 16 頁 - A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
第 20 頁 - I call upon the honor of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
第 12 頁 - When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
第 14 頁 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
第 16 頁 - Britain: that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them : but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited...
第 20 頁 - That God and nature have put into our hands !" What ideas of God and nature that noble Lord may entertain, I know not; but I know that such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature...
第 12 頁 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
第 427 頁 - ... provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
第 15 頁 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
第 79 頁 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...