Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences, Volum 84

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Columbia University Press, 1919
 

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Side 157 - Members thereof without good and sufficient Cause, nor without the Consent of the Majority of the said Council signified in Council, after due Examination of the Charge against such Councillor and his answer thereunto.
Side 286 - The people were made to believe that the Parliament could not lay any tax (for so they call the rates of postage) here without the consent of the General Assembly.
Side 82 - They live in the same neat manner, dress after the same modes, and behave themselves exactly as the gentry in London; most families of any note having a coach, chariot, berlin, or chaise.
Side 43 - Commission under the Great Seal of the High Court of Admiralty of England, bearing Date the Twenty third Day of the same Month, to appoint Me ViceAdmiral in the said Province.
Side 34 - I in war, but the labour of the field I never loved, nor home-keeping thrift, that breeds brave children, but galleys with their oars were dear to me, and wars and polished shafts and darts — baneful things whereat others use to shudder. But that, methinks...
Side 134 - I am sorry to find them very much in a republican way of thinking, and indeed they do not act in a proper constitutional way, but making encroachments on the prerogative of the crown, which some former governor submitted too much to them.
Side 115 - Olynthian union had been destroyed by a short war, Spartan power had reached its climax. Agesilaus had attained the goal of his desires. The man who led his city to these achievements was Agesilaus, the embodiment of the Lacedaemonian spirit, patriotic, ambitious and efficient, but with stunted ideals, unprogressive alike in military art, in statesmanship and in humanism — a man who tested the right or wrong of every action by the sole advantage of Sparta, whose vision, limited to brute power,...
Side 140 - Virginia burgesses who declared that the sole right of imposing taxes on the inhabitants of this colony is now, and ever hath been, legally and constitutionally vested in the House of Burgesses...
Side 53 - Great Britain may reap emoluments from this sort of traffic ; but when we consider, that it greatly retards the settlement of the Colonies with more useful inhabitants, and may in time have the most destructive influence, we presume to hope that the interest of a few will be disregarded, when placed in competition with the security and happiness of such numbers of your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects.
Side 217 - ... the secretary, who affixed the seal of the colony to the grant. There was no law sanctioning this, but as the colony grew there was need of more land, and also a demand for an easier and less expensive method of acquiring it. Convenience and custom, therefore, sustained the method which was...

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