...erable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before it began in ... ...e reconciled to the thought that the letter might fall into the hands of the British, lest some printer or busy body should publish some part of the c... ...t a part of it. On search he found that part quoted at length, in one of the British Reviews, from a discourse of Dr. Foster’s. This detec tion gave ... ...d met every week to be instructed in the manual exercise, and other parts of military discipline. The women, by subscriptions among themselves, provid... ...e members of council, who had join’d the governors in all the disputes about military preparations, with which the House had long been harass’d, they ... ...never application was made to them, by order of the crown, to grant aids for military purposes. They were unwilling to offend government, on the one h... ...and ever after bore for me the most cordial and affectionate friendship. The British government, not chusing to permit the union of the colonies as pr...