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... RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA , March 22 , 1775 PAGE 1 . 81 99 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL , ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA , April 3 , 1777 187 • Two LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN OF BRISTOL , ON THE BILLS DEPENDING IN PARLIAMENT ...
... RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA , March 22 , 1775 PAGE 1 . 81 99 LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL , ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA , April 3 , 1777 187 • Two LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN OF BRISTOL , ON THE BILLS DEPENDING IN PARLIAMENT ...
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... resolve itself into a committee of the whole House , to take into con- sideration the duty of three - pence per pound weight upon tea , payable in all his Majesty's dominions in America , im- posed by the said act ; and also the ...
... resolve itself into a committee of the whole House , to take into con- sideration the duty of three - pence per pound weight upon tea , payable in all his Majesty's dominions in America , im- posed by the said act ; and also the ...
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... resolution , I dare say he has very well weighed those challenges before he delivered them . I had long the happiness to sit at the same side of the House , and to agree with the honorable gentleman on all the American questions . My ...
... resolution , I dare say he has very well weighed those challenges before he delivered them . I had long the happiness to sit at the same side of the House , and to agree with the honorable gentleman on all the American questions . My ...
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... resolved not to pay . The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain . Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden , when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings . Would twenty shillings have ...
... resolved not to pay . The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain . Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden , when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings . Would twenty shillings have ...
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... resolution of maintaining the execution of the laws in every part of my dominions . " After this no man dreamt that a repeal under this ministry could possibly take place . The honorable gentleman knows as well as I , that the idea was ...
... resolution of maintaining the execution of the laws in every part of my dominions . " After this no man dreamt that a repeal under this ministry could possibly take place . The honorable gentleman knows as well as I , that the idea was ...
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Seite 181 - I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. .Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Seite 180 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Seite 96 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates...
Seite 126 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Seite 95 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Seite 109 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our...
Seite 133 - The power inadequate to all other things is often more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them obedient.
Seite 140 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy.
Seite 107 - ... of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice in such province or colony, it will be proper, if such proposal shall be approved by his Majesty...
Seite 184 - That it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America...