The American Revolution in Our School Text-books: An Attempt to Trace the Influence of Early School Education on the Feeling Towards England in the United StatesGeorge H. Doran Company, 1917 - 154 páginas |
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... the colonies . THESE ARE THE ONLY REFERENCES TO CONDI- TIONS IN ENGLAND PRIOR TO THE REVOLU- TION AND TO PROMINENT ENGLISHMEN WHO FAVORED THE COLONISTS . From Field's A Grammar School History of the United States 56 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
... the colonies . THESE ARE THE ONLY REFERENCES TO CONDI- TIONS IN ENGLAND PRIOR TO THE REVOLU- TION AND TO PROMINENT ENGLISHMEN WHO FAVORED THE COLONISTS . From Field's A Grammar School History of the United States 56 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
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... favored our cause in Parliament , received the thanks of the people , P. 177 : There is no doubt that in most of these transactions the mob were in the wrong ; the source of the mischief lay , however , in the fact that the British ...
... favored our cause in Parliament , received the thanks of the people , P. 177 : There is no doubt that in most of these transactions the mob were in the wrong ; the source of the mischief lay , however , in the fact that the British ...
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... favored the interests of the American colonies . P. 95 , FOOT NOTE : In the debates in the British Parliament on this bill , ( Stamp Act ) Charles Townshend remarked , that the Amer- icans were " children planted by our care , and ...
... favored the interests of the American colonies . P. 95 , FOOT NOTE : In the debates in the British Parliament on this bill , ( Stamp Act ) Charles Townshend remarked , that the Amer- icans were " children planted by our care , and ...
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... was needed to kindle the slumbering hatred into the flames of war . THE ENGLISH SIDE AND LEADING ENGLISHMEN WHO FAVORED THE COLONISTS NOT MENTIONED . 1 From Chambers ' ( Hansell's ) School History of 82 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
... was needed to kindle the slumbering hatred into the flames of war . THE ENGLISH SIDE AND LEADING ENGLISHMEN WHO FAVORED THE COLONISTS NOT MENTIONED . 1 From Chambers ' ( Hansell's ) School History of 82 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
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... . There was everywhere a call for union among the colonies . NO REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT MANY ENGLISHMEN FAVORED THE COLONISTS . From Ellis ' Eclectic Primary History of the United States IN OUR SCHOOL TEXT - BOOKS 85.
... . There was everywhere a call for union among the colonies . NO REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT MANY ENGLISHMEN FAVORED THE COLONISTS . From Ellis ' Eclectic Primary History of the United States IN OUR SCHOOL TEXT - BOOKS 85.
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Página 36 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Página 126 - 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.
Página 43 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Página 43 - The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 126 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Página 109 - No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of threepence. But no commodity will bear threepence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of people are resolved not to pay.
Página 36 - ... mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling...
Página 36 - America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much.
Página 116 - ... heat; what I deliver are the genuine sentiments of my heart. 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.
Página 53 - They planted by your care! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny, to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable, and, among others, to the cruelties of...