Memoirs of the Reign of George III to the Session of Parliament Ending A.D. 1793, Volume 2G.G. and J. Robinson, 1795 |
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... Constitution , and with which the King himself is not entrusted . By the appointment and removal of the Sheriff at pleasure , they have the means of returning fuch Juries as may best fuit with the gratification of their paf- fions and ...
... Constitution , and with which the King himself is not entrusted . By the appointment and removal of the Sheriff at pleasure , they have the means of returning fuch Juries as may best fuit with the gratification of their paf- fions and ...
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... Constitution as a fundamental law , that what a man has honeftly acquired is abfolutely his own , which he may freely give , but which can- not be taken from him without his confent . Pafs then , my Lords , inftead of thefe harsh and ...
... Constitution as a fundamental law , that what a man has honeftly acquired is abfolutely his own , which he may freely give , but which can- not be taken from him without his confent . Pafs then , my Lords , inftead of thefe harsh and ...
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... Constitution , and their feveral charters or compacts . After a fpecification of these rights , and an enumeration of the recent violations of them , they mention , that , in hopes of being reftored to that ftate in which both countries ...
... Constitution , and their feveral charters or compacts . After a fpecification of these rights , and an enumeration of the recent violations of them , they mention , that , in hopes of being reftored to that ftate in which both countries ...
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... Constitution , that no subject of Eng- lanp fhall be taxed but by his own confent . What fhall oppofe this fpirit , aided by the congenial flame glowing in the breaft of every generous Bri- ton ? To maintain this principle is the common ...
... Constitution , that no subject of Eng- lanp fhall be taxed but by his own confent . What fhall oppofe this fpirit , aided by the congenial flame glowing in the breaft of every generous Bri- ton ? To maintain this principle is the common ...
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... CONSTITUTION ; he grounded his motion on the acknowledged fact , that there had been fomewhere grofs ignorance , incapacity , or negligence . This must be imputed either to our Minifters at home , or our Commanders abroad : and it was ...
... CONSTITUTION ; he grounded his motion on the acknowledged fact , that there had been fomewhere grofs ignorance , incapacity , or negligence . This must be imputed either to our Minifters at home , or our Commanders abroad : and it was ...
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Página 263 - 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 263 - But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage; to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods...
Página 78 - You may call them an army of safety and of guard; but they are in truth an army of impotence and contempt; and, to make the folly equal to the disgrace, they are an army of irritation and vexation.
Página 58 - By shutting up the port of Boston, some imagine that the course of trade might be turned hither, and to our benefit ; but nature, in the formation of our harbour, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce with that convenient mart.
Página 83 - To conclude, my lords, if the ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the king, I will not say, that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm, that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. I will not say that the king is betrayed ; but I will pronounce, that the kingdom is undone.
Página 119 - Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.
Página 121 - ... on this continent ready and willing at all times, as they have ever been, with their lives and fortunes, to assert and maintain the rights and interests of your majesty, and of our ^mother country.
Página 261 - Parliament for advice, and a reliance on its constitutional advice and assistance : as it is the right of Parliament to give, so it is the duty of the Crown to ask it. But on this day, and in this extreme momentous exigency, no reliance is reposed on our constitutional...
Página 263 - Your efforts are for ever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely, for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling...
Página 80 - Tis liberty to liberty engaged," that they will defend themselves, their families, and their country. In this great cause they are immovably allied: it is the alliance of God and nature — immutable, eternal — fixed as the firmament of heaven.