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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... officers keep their corps full , and mind their duty . But any troops of ours placed there , and accountable here , would , in such remote and obscure places , and at so great a distance from the eye and inspection of supe- riors , soon ...
... officers keep their corps full , and mind their duty . But any troops of ours placed there , and accountable here , would , in such remote and obscure places , and at so great a distance from the eye and inspection of supe- riors , soon ...
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... officers under oath . By it there appears to be in this colony at this time 35,939 white persons , and 4,697 blacks , chiefly negroes . In the year 1730 , by order of the then Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations , an account ...
... officers under oath . By it there appears to be in this colony at this time 35,939 white persons , and 4,697 blacks , chiefly negroes . In the year 1730 , by order of the then Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations , an account ...
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... officers of the customs , and to the custom - house books ; from which I have also selected one account , that of the trade from England , exclusive of Scotland , to Pennsylvania ; * a colony most remark- able for the plain frugal ...
... officers of the customs , and to the custom - house books ; from which I have also selected one account , that of the trade from England , exclusive of Scotland , to Pennsylvania ; * a colony most remark- able for the plain frugal ...
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... officers , intelligence , and trade of export and of import , through the River St. Lawrence , on risks both public and private ; in the encouragement of splendid promises and a great ally ; in the passage from Canada to the back ...
... officers , intelligence , and trade of export and of import , through the River St. Lawrence , on risks both public and private ; in the encouragement of splendid promises and a great ally ; in the passage from Canada to the back ...
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... officers , civil and military , and all other his Majesty's liege subjects within this province , to make diligent search and inquiry after the authors and per- petrators of the said crime , their abettors and accom- plices , and to use ...
... officers , civil and military , and all other his Majesty's liege subjects within this province , to make diligent search and inquiry after the authors and per- petrators of the said crime , their abettors and accom- plices , and to use ...
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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...