| John Esten Cooke - 1883 - 578 pages
...friends for the American cause in England and everywhere. Lord Chatham, in the House of Lords, said : " I know not the people or Senate, who, in such a complication...America assembled in General Congress in Philadelphia." What the Congress had done was simply to state the American grievances with " decency, firmness, and... | |
| John Esten Cooke - 1883 - 568 pages
...friends for the American cause in England and everywhere. Lord Chatham, in the House of Lords, said : " I know not the people or Senate, who, in such a complication...difficult circumstances, can stand in preference to tlje delegates of America assembled in General Congress in Philadelphia." What the Congress had done... | |
| Eli Field Cooley, William Scudder Cooley - 1883 - 350 pages
...and avow that, in the master states of the world, I know not the people, nor the senate, who, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, can...delegates of America, assembled in general congress at Philadelphia. For genuine sagacity, for singular moderation, for solid wisdom, manly spirit, manly... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1885 - 462 pages
...wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow that, in the master States of the world, I know not the people or senate who, in such a complication of difficult circumstances, can stand before the delegates of America assembled in General Congress in Philadelphia." It is known only by... | |
| Washington Irving - 1887 - 666 pages
...wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow that, in the master states of the world, I know not the people, or senate, who, in such a complication...delegates of America assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia." From the secrecy that enveloped its discussions, we are ignorant of the part taken... | |
| James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 802 pages
...make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow that, in the master states of the world, • I know not the people or senate, who, in such a complication...America assembled in general Congress in Philadelphia." Gage had, in the meantime, adopted measures even more stringent than before, for the reduction of Boston... | |
| John Fiske - 1888 - 670 pages
...wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow that, in the master states of the world, I know not the people, or senate, who, in such a complication...delegates of America assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia." From the secrecy that enveloped its discussions, we are ignorant of the part taken... | |
| Charles Janeway Stillé - 1891 - 468 pages
...; but I must declare and avow that in the master states of the world I know not the people nor the Senate who in such a complication of difficult circumstances...Delegates of America assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia." There is not a single word in either of these documents which betokens the "timid... | |
| Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1891 - 208 pages
..." For myself," said Lord Chatham, " I must declare and avow that in the master states of the world I know not the people or senate who, in such a complication of difficult circumstances, can stand before the delegates of America assembled in general congress in Philadelphia." These are high words... | |
| 1892 - 780 pages
...wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow that, in the master states of the world, I know not the people or senate, who, in such a complication...delegates of America assembled in general Congress at Philadelphia." The next year Washington was elected by Congress commander- in-chief of the forces... | |
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