A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-party: With a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots who Drowned the Tea in Boston Harbour in 1773S. S. Bliss, printer, 1834 - 209 páginas |
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... passed his time in the humble , and too unfashionable pursuits of honest industry ; lost , as it were , to the knowledge of the world , and to fame . But he has been blessed by Heaven with the capacity to preserve , what millions of the ...
... passed his time in the humble , and too unfashionable pursuits of honest industry ; lost , as it were , to the knowledge of the world , and to fame . But he has been blessed by Heaven with the capacity to preserve , what millions of the ...
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... passed muster , as their stature is reputed to have hardly exceeded that of the rejected Hewes , thoughtheir soldierly pre - eminence has been well attested by the record of both ancient and modern times . To a man who is conscious of ...
... passed muster , as their stature is reputed to have hardly exceeded that of the rejected Hewes , thoughtheir soldierly pre - eminence has been well attested by the record of both ancient and modern times . To a man who is conscious of ...
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... passing the boy , he said to Malcom , what , sir , did you throw my chips into the snow for , yesterday ? Upon which Malcom angrily replied , do you speak to me , you rascal ; and , as he raised a cane he had in his hand , aiming it at ...
... passing the boy , he said to Malcom , what , sir , did you throw my chips into the snow for , yesterday ? Upon which Malcom angrily replied , do you speak to me , you rascal ; and , as he raised a cane he had in his hand , aiming it at ...
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... passing my finger over the spot to which he directed it , there was obviously such a scar , as must have been occasioned by the wound he had described . Although the excitment which had been occasioned by the wanton THE BOSTON TEAPARTY .
... passing my finger over the spot to which he directed it , there was obviously such a scar , as must have been occasioned by the wound he had described . Although the excitment which had been occasioned by the wanton THE BOSTON TEAPARTY .
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... passed , giving him a kick or a stroke . The next day we nailed the skirt of his coat , which I had pulled off , to the whipping post in Charlestown , the place of his residence , with a label upon it , com- memorative of the occasion ...
... passed , giving him a kick or a stroke . The next day we nailed the skirt of his coat , which I had pulled off , to the whipping post in Charlestown , the place of his residence , with a label upon it , com- memorative of the occasion ...
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