Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775D.C. Heath & Company, 1895 - 112 sider |
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Side 6
... provinces come to general ransom by bidding against each other , until you knock down the hammer , and deter- mine a proportion of payments beyond all the powers of 30 algebra to equalize and settle . The plan which I shall presume to ...
... provinces come to general ransom by bidding against each other , until you knock down the hammer , and deter- mine a proportion of payments beyond all the powers of 30 algebra to equalize and settle . The plan which I shall presume to ...
Side 14
... province called for £ 11,459 in value of your commodities , native and foreign . This was the whole . What did it demand in 25 1772 ? Why nearly fifty times as much ; for in that year the export to Pennsylvania was £ 507,909 , nearly ...
... province called for £ 11,459 in value of your commodities , native and foreign . This was the whole . What did it demand in 25 1772 ? Why nearly fifty times as much ; for in that year the export to Pennsylvania was £ 507,909 , nearly ...
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... provincial legislative assemblies . Their gov- ernments are popular in a high degree ; some are merely popular ; in all , the popular representative is the most weighty ; and this share of the people in their ordinary gov- 5 ernment ...
... provincial legislative assemblies . Their gov- ernments are popular in a high degree ; some are merely popular ; in all , the popular representative is the most weighty ; and this share of the people in their ordinary gov- 5 ernment ...
Side 23
... provinces it takes the lead . The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers . But all who 20 read , and most do read , endeavour to obtain some smat- tering in that science . I have been told by an eminent ...
... provinces it takes the lead . The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers . But all who 20 read , and most do read , endeavour to obtain some smat- tering in that science . I have been told by an eminent ...
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... provinces , is , perhaps , not so well obeyed as you are in yours . She complies too ; she submits ; she watches times . This is the immutable condition , the eternal law , of extensive and detached empire.1 Then , Sir , from these six ...
... provinces , is , perhaps , not so well obeyed as you are in yours . She complies too ; she submits ; she watches times . This is the immutable condition , the eternal law , of extensive and detached empire.1 Then , Sir , from these six ...
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Side ix - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Side 39 - 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 16 - 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.
Side 61 - 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.
Side 76 - 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.
Side 15 - 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.
Side xvii - She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
Side 19 - ... 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...
Side 79 - By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Side 16 - 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.