Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Том 9R. W. Pomeroy, 1822 |
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... Charles Townshend conceived the de- sign of taxing the colonies ; and in a brilliant speech on the subject , he dazzled the eyes of the British par- liament , by playing before them the image of a RICHARD HENRY LEE . 19.
... Charles Townshend conceived the de- sign of taxing the colonies ; and in a brilliant speech on the subject , he dazzled the eyes of the British par- liament , by playing before them the image of a RICHARD HENRY LEE . 19.
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... colonies made it impossible to execute the stamp act ; the failure of the revenue expected from it exposed , even to the English , its ille- gality , so that when the personal feelings of the king removed its supporters from his ...
... colonies made it impossible to execute the stamp act ; the failure of the revenue expected from it exposed , even to the English , its ille- gality , so that when the personal feelings of the king removed its supporters from his ...
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... colonies in their late opposition , for they were friends to Ameri- can liberty or opposers of the power of the ministry , and gratitude prompted or policy made it necessary to secure , for future emergencies , the support of advo ...
... colonies in their late opposition , for they were friends to Ameri- can liberty or opposers of the power of the ministry , and gratitude prompted or policy made it necessary to secure , for future emergencies , the support of advo ...
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... colonies offered the only chance of safety . To this outrage on the rights of freemen , temperate remonstrance was first opposed , and the address to the king was moved in the house of burgesses and written by Mr. Lee , stating the grie ...
... colonies offered the only chance of safety . To this outrage on the rights of freemen , temperate remonstrance was first opposed , and the address to the king was moved in the house of burgesses and written by Mr. Lee , stating the grie ...
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... colonies is undoubtedly neces- sary . The politician of Italy delivered the result of reason and experience , when he proposed the way to contest by division . How to effect this union in the wisest and firmest manner , perhaps time and ...
... colonies is undoubtedly neces- sary . The politician of Italy delivered the result of reason and experience , when he proposed the way to contest by division . How to effect this union in the wisest and firmest manner , perhaps time and ...
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Страница 29 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Страница 34 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them ; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Страница 22 - Correspondence, that they communicate, with their several Corresponding Committees, on the expediency of appointing Deputies from the several Colonies of British America, to meet in general Congress, at such place annually as shall be thought most convenient: there to deliberate on those general measures which the united interests of America may from time to time require.
Страница 184 - And that this regulation shall be an article of compact, and remain a fundamental principle of the constitutions, between the thirteen original States, and each of the States described in the resolve.
Страница 161 - ... firmly to unite in the abhorrence of all such writings, and measures, as evidence a desire and design to break off the happy connection we have hitherto enjoyed with the kingdom of Great Britain, and our just and necessary subordination to the king, and those who are lawfully placed in authority under him.
Страница 161 - But, if you exert the means of defence which God and nature have given you, the time will soon arrive when every man shall sit under his own vine and under his own fig-tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
Страница 134 - States, in framing such further confederation between them, in making foreign alliances, and in adopting such other measures as shall be judged necessary for the preservation of their...
Страница 184 - That there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the States described in the resolve of Congress of the 23d of April, 1784, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been personally guilty...