The Eve of the Revolution, A Chronicle of the Breach with England doc

... sharp contrast to the eminent leaders of the aristocracy. Among them was Thomas Marshall, father of a famous son, and Patrick Henry, a young man of twenty-nine years, a heaven-born orator and destined ... Littleton" that an Act of Parliament against Magna Carta, or common right, or reason, is void which was clearly the case of the Stamp Act. On the flyleaf of...

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... generations in the cold regions of northeastern Asia and northwestern America. Even if they reached Alaska by the Aleutian route but came to the islands by way of the northern end of the Kamchatkan ... and Asia. A second side is the Pacific Ocean with the great ridge of the two Americas on one hand and Asia and Australia on the other. Next comes the side c...

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... proved a warning. To the average Frenchman of the sixteenth century Canada meant what it afterwards meant to Sully and Voltaire. It was a tract of snow; a land of barbarians, bears, and beavers. The ... Hence Acadia remained separate from the Laurentian valley, which was the heart of Canada although Acadia and Canada combined to form New France. Of these two sister d...

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... as well as the head of Canada at bay. The exultation of the British more than matched the disappointment of the Americans. Thomas Ainslie, collector of customs and captain of militia at Quebec, ... soldier's to her dying day almost matched her husband's stalwart form in dignity of carriage. The Quebec Act of 1774 the Magna Charta of the French-Canadia...

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... Canada alone, but in reality a number of the tribes of the plains, like the well-known Apaches, as well as the Hupas of California and the Navahos, belong to the Athapascans. In Canada, the Athapascans ... past. Finding, therefore, the tropical islands of the Caribbean sea with a climate and plants and animals such as they imagined those of Asia and the Ind...

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... the marauders of Europe or whipped the corsairs of Barbary in the Strait of Gibraltar. Never was a race of seamen so admirably fitted for the daring trade of privateering as the crews of these ... one of the fascinating autobiographies of the old school of shipmasters who had the gift of writing. Captain Amasa Delano, "Narrative of Voyages and...

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... of that ocean of which what is now the Sahara was prob- ably the deepest part, Aeria was one of the many islands that had risen above its surface; and that, as the land rose and the waters subsided, ... the hand of the tyrants of earth for ever. 101 Chapter 16 A WOOING IN MID AIR AFTER breakfast on the Friday morning, Natasha and Arnold were standing in the bows...

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... Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company had a tramway to bring down coal from the mountains to the terminal of the canal. On the crude wooden rails of this tramway Allen placed the Stourbridge ... locomotive, after all these years of labor. In the same year of 1829, on the morning of the 6th of October, a great crowd had assembled...

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... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other. As in the parallel case of ... the level of the lowest competitive rates of that year. Finally, a third act established a board of railroad and warehouse commissioners charged with the enforceme...

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... hogshead of the best Jamaica rum for the garrison of the Royal Battery, won him a great deal of goodwill, in spite of the fact that his 'Admiral's eighth' of the naval prize-money amounted ... 'Maritime War,' and of that great military struggle which continental Europe called the 'Seven Years' War.' The year 1755 saw Braddock...

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