A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Band 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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... authority becomes , ipso facto , criminal ; and while the true friend of liberty deplores the enor- mities , the pander of arbitrary power rejoices in the history , of the French revolution . It furnishes the lat- ter with a pretext to ...
... authority becomes , ipso facto , criminal ; and while the true friend of liberty deplores the enor- mities , the pander of arbitrary power rejoices in the history , of the French revolution . It furnishes the lat- ter with a pretext to ...
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... authority was held , were more anx- ious to conciliate the royal favour , than the confidence of the people . They laboured hard , therefore , to prove themselves worthy of the trust reposed in them by the King , and sought to carry ...
... authority was held , were more anx- ious to conciliate the royal favour , than the confidence of the people . They laboured hard , therefore , to prove themselves worthy of the trust reposed in them by the King , and sought to carry ...
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... authority , the same royal grant , either spent their lives in litigation , or succeeded against each other only by superiority of artifice and cunning . It is not our business to inquire into the validity of any of these royal grants ...
... authority , the same royal grant , either spent their lives in litigation , or succeeded against each other only by superiority of artifice and cunning . It is not our business to inquire into the validity of any of these royal grants ...
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... authority , which of right belonged only to their own representatives . Every thing , indeed , tended to engender and to nur- ture a spirit of liberty and independence , in the Colo- nies of the new world . In the first place , that ...
... authority , which of right belonged only to their own representatives . Every thing , indeed , tended to engender and to nur- ture a spirit of liberty and independence , in the Colo- nies of the new world . In the first place , that ...
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... authority of the Provin- cial Assembly , without the orders or instructions of the Mother Country . But the Parliament of Great Bri- tain no sooner heard of these transactions , than they determined to make a vigorous stand in support ...
... authority of the Provin- cial Assembly , without the orders or instructions of the Mother Country . But the Parliament of Great Bri- tain no sooner heard of these transactions , than they determined to make a vigorous stand in support ...
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Seite 213 - An act to discontinue in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading, or shipping of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay in North America...
Seite 354 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Seite 260 - But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Seite 259 - ' Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me in this appointment, yet, I feel great distress from a consciousness, that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust...
Seite 91 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 217 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Seite 356 - He has excited Domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Seite 74 - Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Seite 223 - ... whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association ; and when it shall be made to appear, to the satisfaction of a majority of...
Seite 87 - It is my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.