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... continue on this ill - chosen ground , your difficulties thicken on you ; and therefore my conclusion is , remove from a bad position as quickly as you can . The 5 disgrace , and the necessity of yielding , both of them , grow upon you ...
... continue on this ill - chosen ground , your difficulties thicken on you ; and therefore my conclusion is , remove from a bad position as quickly as you can . The 5 disgrace , and the necessity of yielding , both of them , grow upon you ...
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... continue to pay for it . But hopes of another kind were held out to them ; and in par- ticular , I well remember , that Mr. Townshend , in a brilliant 15 harangue on this subject , did dazzle them , by playing before their eyes the ...
... continue to pay for it . But hopes of another kind were held out to them ; and in par- ticular , I well remember , that Mr. Townshend , in a brilliant 15 harangue on this subject , did dazzle them , by playing before their eyes the ...
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... continue it for four years longer at least before it will be clear . " These are the words of Governor Bernard's letter to a member of the old ministry , and which he has since printed . 15 Mr. Grenville could not have made this ...
... continue it for four years longer at least before it will be clear . " These are the words of Governor Bernard's letter to a member of the old ministry , and which he has since printed . 15 Mr. Grenville could not have made this ...
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... continue in this state , or what may arise out of this unheard - of situa- 10 tion , how can the wisest of us conjecture ? Our late ex- perience has taught us that many of these fundamental principles , formerly believed infallible ...
... continue in this state , or what may arise out of this unheard - of situa- 10 tion , how can the wisest of us conjecture ? Our late ex- perience has taught us that many of these fundamental principles , formerly believed infallible ...
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... continue the restraint after the offence ; looking on ourselves as rivals to our colonies , and persuaded that of course we must gain all that they shall lose . Much mischief we may certainly do . The power inadequate to all other ...
... continue the restraint after the offence ; looking on ourselves as rivals to our colonies , and persuaded that of course we must gain all that they shall lose . Much mischief we may certainly do . The power inadequate to all other ...
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Página 123 - 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. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Página 100 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 145 - And that it may be proper to repeal an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled, "An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Página 100 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 160 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 83 - 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; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Página 160 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you.
Página 103 - ... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Página 99 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Página 114 - ... that adhered to them. Such would, and, in no long time, must be, the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime, and to suppress as an evil, the command and blessing of Providence,