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... engaged in polemical and political controversy . The doctrine taught from the pulpits of the esta- blishment after the Great Rebellion was , for the most part , a dry and cold morality , which bore only a distant allusion to the ...
... engaged in polemical and political controversy . The doctrine taught from the pulpits of the esta- blishment after the Great Rebellion was , for the most part , a dry and cold morality , which bore only a distant allusion to the ...
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... engaged to write pamphlets or news- paper paragraphs in the interest of his employer . More frequently he was used as an agent for elec- tioneering purposes ; and , in that capacity was required to employ the local influence derived ...
... engaged to write pamphlets or news- paper paragraphs in the interest of his employer . More frequently he was used as an agent for elec- tioneering purposes ; and , in that capacity was required to employ the local influence derived ...
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... engaged in cultivating jealousies among themselves , and in detaching partizans not from the Court but from each other.a Ch . 15 . 1771 91 Wedderburn . Men of ambition and ability can hardly be Defection of blamed for deserting the ...
... engaged in cultivating jealousies among themselves , and in detaching partizans not from the Court but from each other.a Ch . 15 . 1771 91 Wedderburn . Men of ambition and ability can hardly be Defection of blamed for deserting the ...
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... engaged in a controversy with the people of England . The opinion of this House must be taken to be the opinion of the people until the contrary is proved . ' At this time Fox had shown but little promise of the great repu- tation which ...
... engaged in a controversy with the people of England . The opinion of this House must be taken to be the opinion of the people until the contrary is proved . ' At this time Fox had shown but little promise of the great repu- tation which ...
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... engaged in it from sinister designs were severally disappointed . Wilkes failed to turn it to his pecuniary profit : Onslow , instead of crushing the printers , became a humble instru- ment , in the hands of Providence , for extending ...
... engaged in it from sinister designs were severally disappointed . Wilkes failed to turn it to his pecuniary profit : Onslow , instead of crushing the printers , became a humble instru- ment , in the hands of Providence , for extending ...
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Página 346 - to use all the means which God and Nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house or in this country...
Página 346 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never!
Página 345 - You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent: doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely.
Página 206 - No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of threepence. But no commodity will bear threepence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of people are 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 ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment...
Página 365 - My lords, his majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions...
Página 430 - I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men...
Página 255 - Council, and Assembly, or General Court, of any of his Majesty's Provinces or Colonies in America, shall propose to make provision, according to the condition, circumstances, and situation of such Province or Colony, for contributing their proportion to the common defence, (such proportion to be raised under the authority...
Página 450 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished «: and Mr.
Página 201 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation...
Página 443 - But what, I confess, was uppermost with me, what I bent the whole force of my mind to, was the reduction of that corrupt influence which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality and of all disorder, — which loads us more than millions of debt, — which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our Constitution.