 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 Seiten
...— By no means ; the propereft time to exert our right of taxatiori, is, when the right is refufed. To temporize is to yield, and the authority of the mother country, if it is now unfupported, will, in reality, be relinquifhed for ever. It was faid, that there wa& great ftrefs laid,... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 388 Seiten
...up that power ? No—the propereft time to exert our right of taxation is when the right is refufed. To temporize is to yield ; and the authority of the Mother Country, if it is now unfupported, will in reality be relinquifhed for ever. A total repeal cannot be thought of till AMERICA... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1813 - 726 Seiten
...taxation, is, when the right is refused. The properest time for making resistance is when we are attacked. To. temporize is to yield, and the authority of the mother country now unsupported, is, in reality, relinquished for ever. I am very well aware, Sir, of the great stress... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 620 Seiten
...by the repeal of the whole law, to give up that power? No! the properest time to exert our right to taxation is when the right is refused. To temporize...in reality be relinquished for ever. A total repeal (he continued,) cannot be thought of, till America is PROSTRATE AT OUR FEET. — Thus did this new... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1838 - 684 Seiten
...and, by the repeal of the whole law, to give up that power? No: the properest time to exert our rights of taxation is when the right is refused. To temporize...now unsupported, will, in reality, be relinquished forever. A total repeal cannot be thought of till America is prostrate at our feet.' " Lord North's... | |
 | 1833 - 670 Seiten
...and, by the repeal of the whole law, to give up that power? No; the properest time to exert our right of taxation is when the right is refused. To temporize is to jield; and the authority of the mother country, if it is now unsupported, will, in reality, be relinquished... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 606 Seiten
...by the repeal of the whole law, to give up that power ? No : the properest time to exert our right of taxation is when the right is refused. To temporize...country, if it is now unsupported, will in reality he relinquished for ever : a total repeal cannot be thought of till America is prostrate at our feet."... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 684 Seiten
...and, by the repeal of the whole law, to give up that power? No: the properest time to-exert our rights of taxation is when the right is refused. To temporize...now unsupported, will, in reality, be relinquished forever. A total repeal cannot be thought of till America is prostrate at our feet. ' " Lord North's... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 686 Seiten
...and, by the repeal of the whole law, to give up that power? No: the properesttimeto exert our rights of taxation is when the right is refused. To temporize...now unsupported, will, in reality, be relinquished forever. A total repeal cannot be thought of .till America is prostrate at our feet.' " Lord North's... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835 - 364 Seiten
...No : the properest time to exact our right of taxation is when the right is refused : to temporise is to yield ; and the authority of the mother country, if it be now unsupported, will in reality be relinquished for ever : a total repeal cannot be thought of,... | |
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The properest time to exert our right of taxation," said he, " is when the right is refused. To temporize is to yield ; and the authority of the mother country, if it is now unsupported, will be relinquished forever : a total, repeal cannot be thought... 
