Pictorial Life of George Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of WashingtonLeary & Getz, 1853 - 586 pages |
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Page 125
... liberty to recoil within them , -men , promoted to the highest seats of justice , some of whom to my knowledge were glad , by going to a foreign country , to escape being brought to the bar of a court of justice in their own . They ...
... liberty to recoil within them , -men , promoted to the highest seats of justice , some of whom to my knowledge were glad , by going to a foreign country , to escape being brought to the bar of a court of justice in their own . They ...
Page 164
... liberty and happiness of which his ministers were attempting to bereave them . " * " We ask , " said they , " but for peace , liberty , and safety . We wish not a diminution of the prerogative , nor do we solicit the grant of any new ...
... liberty and happiness of which his ministers were attempting to bereave them . " * " We ask , " said they , " but for peace , liberty , and safety . We wish not a diminution of the prerogative , nor do we solicit the grant of any new ...
Page 167
... liberty . Lord Chatham yet lived . That splendid orb had not yet set for ever . The Western horizon yet blazed with his descending glory ; " and in the House of Lords , to which he had lately been raised , he once more threw the whole ...
... liberty . Lord Chatham yet lived . That splendid orb had not yet set for ever . The Western horizon yet blazed with his descending glory ; " and in the House of Lords , to which he had lately been raised , he once more threw the whole ...
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