The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England

pubOne.info present you this new edition. In this brief sketch I have chiefly endeavored to convey to the reader, not a record of what men did, but a sense of how they thought and felt about what they did. To give the quality and texture of the state of mind and feeling of an individual or class, to create for the reader the illusion (not DELUSION, O able Critic! ) of the intellectual atmosphere of past times, I have as a matter of course introduced many quotations; but I have also ventured to resort freque