The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 4Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... carried on with warmth , and the public attention was attracted to it , not more from the importance of the subject , than from the ability of the writers enlisted on each side . The Earl of Bath wrote and published a Letter to Two ...
... carried on with warmth , and the public attention was attracted to it , not more from the importance of the subject , than from the ability of the writers enlisted on each side . The Earl of Bath wrote and published a Letter to Two ...
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... carry their prisoners to them , we can , by complain- ing , obtain no redress , as the governors of Canada have a ready ... carried on a war with disadvantage , and is unable to continue it , can be said under such circum- stances to be ...
... carry their prisoners to them , we can , by complain- ing , obtain no redress , as the governors of Canada have a ready ... carried on a war with disadvantage , and is unable to continue it , can be said under such circum- stances to be ...
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... carrying them , as they get the whole of their subsistence from hunting ; and that this army , large as it may be , can be maintained by the French without any expense . From their numbers , their situation , and the rivers that run ...
... carrying them , as they get the whole of their subsistence from hunting ; and that this army , large as it may be , can be maintained by the French without any expense . From their numbers , their situation , and the rivers that run ...
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... carried on for their advantage only . It is a great mistake to imagine , that the American country in question between Great Britain and France is claimed as the property of any individual or public body in America ; or that the ...
... carried on for their advantage only . It is a great mistake to imagine , that the American country in question between Great Britain and France is claimed as the property of any individual or public body in America ; or that the ...
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... carry on a manufacture , and afford it cheap enough to prevent the importation of the same kind from abroad , and to bear the expense of its own exportation . • But no man , who can have a piece of land of his \ own , sufficient by his ...
... carry on a manufacture , and afford it cheap enough to prevent the importation of the same kind from abroad , and to bear the expense of its own exportation . • But no man , who can have a piece of land of his \ own , sufficient by his ...
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Seite 36 - Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Seite 375 - Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Seite 152 - The Stamp Act says, we shall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchase, nor grant, nor recover debts; we shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless we pay such and such sums ; and thus it is intended to extort our money from us, or ruin us by the consequences of refusing to pay it.
Seite 292 - Company; as also all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the west and northwest...
Seite 358 - ... so soon as the state and circumstances of the said colonies will admit thereof, they shall, with the advice and consent of the members of our council, summon and call General Assemblies...
Seite 262 - ... upon the sea, or in any haven, river, creek, or place where the admiral or admirals have power, authority, or jurisdiction...
Seite 252 - In this assurance my mind most perfectly acquiesces, and I confess I feel not the least alarm from the discontents which are to arise from putting people at their ease ; nor do I apprehend the destruction of this empire from giving, by an act of free grace and indulgence, to two millions of my fellowcitizens, some share of those rights upon which I have always been taught to value myself.
Seite 157 - The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and paid, in all their courts, obedience to acts of parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink and paper.
Seite 150 - Fuller; their seventh and last resolution setting forth, that it was their opinion that the House be moved, that leave be given to bring in a bill to repeal the Stamp Act.
Seite 261 - ... as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, whatsoever, as the courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer within his majesty's kingdom of England...