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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... produced a totally different effect from that which they expected or defired : their averfion procured to its object the warmest po- pularity . Ten days after the laft vote of the house of commons , he was chofen alderman of the city of ...
... produced a totally different effect from that which they expected or defired : their averfion procured to its object the warmest po- pularity . Ten days after the laft vote of the house of commons , he was chofen alderman of the city of ...
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... began to question an authority defigned to be exercised in fuch oppreffion . In Maffachufets for a fhort time . D 4 the America . from the Difcontents new mode VIII . 1769 . CHAP . the projected feheme produced REIGN OF GEORGE III . 39.
... began to question an authority defigned to be exercised in fuch oppreffion . In Maffachufets for a fhort time . D 4 the America . from the Difcontents new mode VIII . 1769 . CHAP . the projected feheme produced REIGN OF GEORGE III . 39.
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... produced fome effect in re- preffing the diforders ; this , however , arofe merely from awe of the foldiers ; but , as they were not em- ployed in executing any vigorous measures for re- ftraining disorders , the fears of the colonists ...
... produced fome effect in re- preffing the diforders ; this , however , arofe merely from awe of the foldiers ; but , as they were not em- ployed in executing any vigorous measures for re- ftraining disorders , the fears of the colonists ...
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... produce and trade of continental Europe , and enriched our commercial and political rivals : fo narrow were the views of the ministers of that time , and fo extensive were the confequences of their weakness , rashness , and impolicy ...
... produce and trade of continental Europe , and enriched our commercial and political rivals : fo narrow were the views of the ministers of that time , and fo extensive were the confequences of their weakness , rashness , and impolicy ...
Side 42
... celebrated Junius . He defied his adver- faries to produce any ftatute applicable to the fub- ject . The precedent on which ministers rested , was Letters of Junius . the VIII . 1769 . the case of Walpole ; but 42 HISTORY OF THE.
... celebrated Junius . He defied his adver- faries to produce any ftatute applicable to the fub- ject . The precedent on which ministers rested , was Letters of Junius . the VIII . 1769 . the case of Walpole ; but 42 HISTORY OF THE.
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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...