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... tion , but insolence , in the Americans ; and that the giving up 20 these taxes will necessitate the giving up of all the rest ? This objection was as palpable then as it is now ; and it was as good for preserving the five duties as for ...
... tion , but insolence , in the Americans ; and that the giving up 20 these taxes will necessitate the giving up of all the rest ? This objection was as palpable then as it is now ; and it was as good for preserving the five duties as for ...
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... tion of a statute of Henry VIII . ' We besought the king , in 20 that well - considered address , to inquire into treasons , and to bring the supposed traitors from America to Great Britain for trial . His Majesty was pleased graciously ...
... tion of a statute of Henry VIII . ' We besought the king , in 20 that well - considered address , to inquire into treasons , and to bring the supposed traitors from America to Great Britain for trial . His Majesty was pleased graciously ...
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... tion of them . Nothing , in my opinion , could be more likely to enable the well - disposed among my subjects in that part of the world , effectually to discourage and defeat the designs of the factious and seditious , than the hearty ...
... tion of them . Nothing , in my opinion , could be more likely to enable the well - disposed among my subjects in that part of the world , effectually to discourage and defeat the designs of the factious and seditious , than the hearty ...
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... tion which I have been authorized to promise this day , by the confidential servants of our gracious sovereign , who to my certain knowledge rates his honour so high , that he would 5 rather part with his crown , than preserve it by ...
... tion which I have been authorized to promise this day , by the confidential servants of our gracious sovereign , who to my certain knowledge rates his honour so high , that he would 5 rather part with his crown , than preserve it by ...
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... tion of the colonies , on which the glory and safety of the 20 British empire depend . " A wise and just motive surely , if ever there was such . But the mischief and dishonour is , that you have not done what you had given the colonies ...
... tion of the colonies , on which the glory and safety of the 20 British empire depend . " A wise and just motive surely , if ever there was such . But the mischief and dishonour is , that you have not done what you had given the colonies ...
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Seite 123 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Seite 100 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 145 - And that it may be proper to repeal an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled, "An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Seite 100 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Seite 160 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 83 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Seite 160 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you.
Seite 103 - ... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Seite 99 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Seite 114 - ... that adhered to them. Such would, and, in no long time, must be, the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime, and to suppress as an evil, the command and blessing of Providence,