The History of the Reign of George III.: To the Termination of the Late War, Volum 2T.N.Longman and O. Rees, 1803 |
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... should refufe , he was directed to diffolve the meeting . Not fatis- fied with oppofing innovations , the Bostonians riotoufly refifted an authority acknowledged by themselves . The floop Liberty , belonging to John Hancock , had ...
... should refufe , he was directed to diffolve the meeting . Not fatis- fied with oppofing innovations , the Bostonians riotoufly refifted an authority acknowledged by themselves . The floop Liberty , belonging to John Hancock , had ...
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... Should he be twice chaftifed for the fame offence ? " By the prefent propofition ( they faid ) we are to blend the executive and judicial powers of the state with the legislative , and to ex- tend our jurifdiction , that we may take ...
... Should he be twice chaftifed for the fame offence ? " By the prefent propofition ( they faid ) we are to blend the executive and judicial powers of the state with the legislative , and to ex- tend our jurifdiction , that we may take ...
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... Should the com- pany in that period be obliged to reduce their divi- dends , a proportionate fum was to be deducted from their payment to government ; and fhould they fall per cent . the payment was to be difcontinued . The company was ...
... Should the com- pany in that period be obliged to reduce their divi- dends , a proportionate fum was to be deducted from their payment to government ; and fhould they fall per cent . the payment was to be difcontinued . The company was ...
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... should be preserved . The concluding paragraph of this effay I fhall quote , as a fpecimen of the terms in which this corporation dictated to their monarch , and of the licentioufness of that period of history . " Since , therefore ...
... should be preserved . The concluding paragraph of this effay I fhall quote , as a fpecimen of the terms in which this corporation dictated to their monarch , and of the licentioufness of that period of history . " Since , therefore ...
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... should excite and fupport infurrections of the Greek christians , intercept the intercourse between Conftantinople and its granaries in Egypt and other parts of the empire , command the Archipelago and Levant , and spread alarm through ...
... should excite and fupport infurrections of the Greek christians , intercept the intercourse between Conftantinople and its granaries in Egypt and other parts of the empire , command the Archipelago and Levant , and spread alarm through ...
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Side 55 - I shall always be ready to receive the requests, and to listen to the complaints of my subjects ; but it gives me great concern to find that any of them should have been so far misled as to offer me an address and remonstrance, the contents of which I cannot but consider as disrespectful to me, injurious to my parliament, and irreconcilable to the principles of the constitution.
Side 232 - 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.
Side 162 - ... that composition to the ear or the eye of another, by recital, by writing, or by printing, in any number of copies, or at any period of time, it is always the identical work of the author which is so exhibited: and no other man (it hath been thought) can have a right to exhibit it, especially for profit, without the author's consent.
Side 186 - Permit us then, most gracious sovereign, in the name of all your faithful people in America, with the utmost humility to implore you, for the honour of Almighty God, whose pure religion our enemies are undermining; for your glory, which can be advanced only by rendering your subjects happy and keeping them united: for the...
Side 215 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Side 222 - The Act to restrain the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, and colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence Plantation, in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies; and to prohibit such provinces and colonies from carrying on any fishery on the banks of Newfoundland, and other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and limitations.
Side 233 - That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America, consisting of fourteen separate governments, and containing two millions and upwards of free inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending any knights and burgesses, or others, to represent them in the high court of Parliament.
Side 406 - As I was within that distance at which, in the quickest firing, I could have lodged half a dozen balls in or about him, before he was out of my reach, I had only to determine; but it was not pleasant to fire at the back of an unoffending individual, who was acquitting himself very coolly of his duty; so I let him alone.
Side 55 - Parliaments, are notorious, as well as fubvcrfive of the fundamental Laws and Liberties of this Realm ; and fince your Majefty, both in Honour and Juftice, is obliged inviolably to preferve them, according to the Oath made to GOD and your...
Side 215 - Commons, in parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the people of the British colonies in America, in all matters touching the general weal of the whole dominion of the imperial crown of Great Britain, and beyond the competency of the local representative of a distant colony...