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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... Nature and Causes of the Disputes between the British Colonies in America and their Mother Country . London , 1769 " Observations on Passages in a Pamphlet , entitled " The True Constitutional Means for putting an End to the Disputes ...
... Nature and Causes of the Disputes between the British Colonies in America and their Mother Country . London , 1769 " Observations on Passages in a Pamphlet , entitled " The True Constitutional Means for putting an End to the Disputes ...
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... nature of his undertaking . In fact he failed ; for he could not convince the public , nor the ministry , that Guadaloupe was better for England than Canada ; nor could his zeal and eloquence avail to divert the negotiation from its ...
... nature of his undertaking . In fact he failed ; for he could not convince the public , nor the ministry , that Guadaloupe was better for England than Canada ; nor could his zeal and eloquence avail to divert the negotiation from its ...
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... nature , as to render a few observations on them necessary for the better information of the public . The author of the Letter , who must be every way best able to support his own sentiments , will , I hope , excuse me , if I seem ...
... nature , as to render a few observations on them necessary for the better information of the public . The author of the Letter , who must be every way best able to support his own sentiments , will , I hope , excuse me , if I seem ...
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... nature , affect to discover self - interested views every- where , at the bottom of the fairest , the most generous conduct . Suspicions and charges of this kind meet with ready reception and belief in the minds even of the multitude ...
... nature , affect to discover self - interested views every- where , at the bottom of the fairest , the most generous conduct . Suspicions and charges of this kind meet with ready reception and belief in the minds even of the multitude ...
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... nature to a certain stature , which , when attained , it cannot ordinarily exceed ; the other , by better government and more prudent policy , as well as by the change of manners and other circumstances , often takes fresh starts of ...
... nature to a certain stature , which , when attained , it cannot ordinarily exceed ; the other , by better government and more prudent policy , as well as by the change of manners and other circumstances , often takes fresh starts of ...
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Seite 48 - 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 393 - 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 97 - Neither will you, upon any account, at any time whatsoever, disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court-martial, unless required to give evidence thereof, as a witness, by a court of justice, in a due course of law. So help you God.
Seite 376 - ... for the hearing and determining all causes, as well criminal as civil, according to law and equity, and, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England...
Seite 306 - 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 376 - ... 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 266 - ... when they see them the acts of that power, which is itself the security, not the rival, of their secondary importance. 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 fellow citizens, some share of those rights upon which I have always been taught to...
Seite 477 - The house have humbly represented to the ministry their own sentiments ; that his majesty's high court of parliament is the supreme legislative, power over the whole empire : that in all free states the constitution is fixed : and, as the supreme legislative derives its power and authority from the constitution, it cannot overleap the bounds of it, without destroying its...
Seite 169 - 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 90 - THAT the Freemen in each respective county at the time and place of meeting for electing their representatives to serve in Assembly...