Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of BristolHeath, 1891 - 242 páginas |
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... preserving the five duties as for retaining the sixth . Besides , the minister will recollect , that the repeal of the stamp act had but just preceded his repeal ; and the ill 25 policy of that measure , ( had it been so impolitic as it ...
... preserving the five duties as for retaining the sixth . Besides , the minister will recollect , that the repeal of the stamp act had but just preceded his repeal ; and the ill 25 policy of that measure , ( had it been so impolitic as it ...
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... preserve it by deceit . A glorious and true character ! which ( since we suffer his ministers with impunity to answer for his ideas of taxa- tion ) we ought to make it our business to enable his Ma- jesty to preserve in all its lustre ...
... preserve it by deceit . A glorious and true character ! which ( since we suffer his ministers with impunity to answer for his ideas of taxa- tion ) we ought to make it our business to enable his Ma- jesty to preserve in all its lustre ...
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... preserving it , and for reconciling it with any concession . If in the session of 1768 , that session of idle terror and empty menaces , you had , as you were often pressed to do , repealed these taxes ; then your strong operations ...
... preserving it , and for reconciling it with any concession . If in the session of 1768 , that session of idle terror and empty menaces , you had , as you were often pressed to do , repealed these taxes ; then your strong operations ...
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... preserve . The preservation of this faith is of more To consequence than the duties on red lead or white lead , or on broken glass , or atlas - ordinary , or demy - fine , or blue royal , or bastard , or fool's - cap , which you have ...
... preserve . The preservation of this faith is of more To consequence than the duties on red lead or white lead , or on broken glass , or atlas - ordinary , or demy - fine , or blue royal , or bastard , or fool's - cap , which you have ...
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... preserved the objects of both . They preserved the authority of Great Britain . They 25 preserved the equity of Great Britain . They made the declaratory act ; they repealed the stamp act . They did both fully ; because the declaratory ...
... preserved the objects of both . They preserved the authority of Great Britain . They 25 preserved the equity of Great Britain . They made the declaratory act ; they repealed the stamp act . They did both fully ; because the declaratory ...
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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,