Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of IndependenceW. Reed & Company, 1829 - 460 頁 |
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第 29 頁
... seat , than Col. Barre rose , and replied : " They planted by your care . No , your oppression planted them in ... seats of justice , some , to my knowledge , were glad by going to a foreign country , to escape being brought to a bar of ...
... seat , than Col. Barre rose , and replied : " They planted by your care . No , your oppression planted them in ... seats of justice , some , to my knowledge , were glad by going to a foreign country , to escape being brought to a bar of ...
第 88 頁
... seat of war ; congress , now reduced to only twenty - eight members , had resolved to remove their session to Lancaster . At this critical period , Mr. Adams accidentally fell in company with several other members , by whom the subject ...
... seat of war ; congress , now reduced to only twenty - eight members , had resolved to remove their session to Lancaster . At this critical period , Mr. Adams accidentally fell in company with several other members , by whom the subject ...
第 93 頁
... seat of empire into America . It looks likely to me ; for , if we can remove the turbulent Gallicks , our people , according to the exactest computations , will in another century become more numerous than England itself . Should this ...
... seat of empire into America . It looks likely to me ; for , if we can remove the turbulent Gallicks , our people , according to the exactest computations , will in another century become more numerous than England itself . Should this ...
第 96 頁
... in Philadelphia , 1774 , Mr. Adams appeared and took his seat . To talents of the highest order , and the most commanding eloquence , he added an honest devotion to the cause of his country , and 96 MASSACHUSETTS DELEGATION .
... in Philadelphia , 1774 , Mr. Adams appeared and took his seat . To talents of the highest order , and the most commanding eloquence , he added an honest devotion to the cause of his country , and 96 MASSACHUSETTS DELEGATION .
第 100 頁
... seats ; " and at another time , he said , ' John Adams was the pillar of its support on the floor of Congress ; its ablest advocate and defender against the multifarious assaults , which were made ' 100 MASSACHUSETTS DELEGATION .
... seats ; " and at another time , he said , ' John Adams was the pillar of its support on the floor of Congress ; its ablest advocate and defender against the multifarious assaults , which were made ' 100 MASSACHUSETTS DELEGATION .
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第 393 頁 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
第 2 頁 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled " an Act, supplementary to an act) entitled an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
第 53 頁 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
第 64 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...
第 125 頁 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...
第 393 頁 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
第 63 頁 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause.
第 362 頁 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by king James the first, the colonists aforesaid, are declared entitled to all the privileges, liberties, and immunities, of denizens and natural born subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
第 380 頁 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — [" Treason " cried the Speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
第 39 頁 - The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper: they have been wronged: they have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side.