Memoirs of the Life and Writings of B.F. ...W. Colburn, 1818 - 450 páginas |
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... oblige you to grant , but such additional ones as may show your generosity , and thereby demonstrate your good - will . For instance , perhaps you might by your treaty retain all Canada , Nova Scotia , and the Flori- das . But if you ...
... oblige you to grant , but such additional ones as may show your generosity , and thereby demonstrate your good - will . For instance , perhaps you might by your treaty retain all Canada , Nova Scotia , and the Flori- das . But if you ...
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... obliged to continue the war as long as she does . But methinks you should have taken us at our word , and have sent immediately your propositions in order to prevent such a war , if you did not choose it . Still I conceive it would be ...
... obliged to continue the war as long as she does . But methinks you should have taken us at our word , and have sent immediately your propositions in order to prevent such a war , if you did not choose it . Still I conceive it would be ...
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... obliged ourselves by treaty to join with her against England . My answers have been , That the United States were not fond of war , and with the advice of their friends would probably be easily prevailed with PART III . 19 OF BENJAMIN ...
... obliged ourselves by treaty to join with her against England . My answers have been , That the United States were not fond of war , and with the advice of their friends would probably be easily prevailed with PART III . 19 OF BENJAMIN ...
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... obliged to fulfil those promises ? " Honest and good men would say aye : but this politician says , as you say , -no . And he gives this pretty reason , that though it was right to make the promises , because otherwise revolt would not ...
... obliged to fulfil those promises ? " Honest and good men would say aye : but this politician says , as you say , -no . And he gives this pretty reason , that though it was right to make the promises , because otherwise revolt would not ...
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... obliged to renounce or exchange for that conferred by the mobs of their own country , or wear it with everlasting shame . I am , sir , your humble servant , B. FRANKLIN . Letter in answer to the propositions of quitting the alliance ...
... obliged to renounce or exchange for that conferred by the mobs of their own country , or wear it with everlasting shame . I am , sir , your humble servant , B. FRANKLIN . Letter in answer to the propositions of quitting the alliance ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquainted act of parliament Adams affairs agreed allies answer appear April assured Britain Britannic Majesty British commerce commission commissioners communicate Comte congress considered conversation copy Count de Vergennes courier court DAVID HARTLEY DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR declared definitive treaty desire disposition enclosed enemies England esteem Europe Excellency expected farther favor France Franklin give Grenville HENRY LAURENS Holland honor hope house of Bourbon humble servant independence informed intercourse JOHN ADAMS June king l'Angleterre late ministry letter liberty London Lord Cornwallis Lord North Lord Shelburne Lordship Majesty's ministers plenipotentiary nation negociation Nova Scotia obedient obliged occasion opinion Paris parliament parole parties Passy persons preliminaries present prisoners proposed proposition ratification reason received reconciliation respect RICHARD OSWALD Secretary sent sentiments Sept ships sincere Spain thing thought tion told treaty of peace truce United Versailles wish write
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Página 269 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Página 269 - Superior ; thence through lake Superior northward of the isles Royal and Phelipeaux to the long Lake ; thence through the middle of said long Lake, and the water communication between it and the lake of the Woods, to the said lake of the Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most north-western point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Página 270 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights, and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States.
Página 278 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Página 278 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Página 269 - Mississippi, until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude; south, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line...
Página 278 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said united States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries...
Página 279 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Página 272 - The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Página 271 - States a re-consideration and revision of all acts or laws regarding the premises, so as to render the said laws or acts perfectly consistent not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which on the return of the blessings of peace should universally prevail.