History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America, Том 1H. & E. Phinney, 1845 |
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... royal troops enter Boston . Tumult , with effusion of blood , in Boston . Admirable judicial decision in the midst of so great commotion . Condescendence of the English government ; it suppresses the taxes , with the exception of that ...
... royal troops enter Boston . Tumult , with effusion of blood , in Boston . Admirable judicial decision in the midst of so great commotion . Condescendence of the English government ; it suppresses the taxes , with the exception of that ...
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... royal governors oppose the designs of the popular governors . Serious altercations which result from it . Massachusetts begins to labor for independence . The other provinces discover repugnance to initate the exam- ple . Military ...
... royal governors oppose the designs of the popular governors . Serious altercations which result from it . Massachusetts begins to labor for independence . The other provinces discover repugnance to initate the exam- ple . Military ...
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... royal authority , whereby their laws were constituted upon the model of those of England , and more or less conformed to a free government , or to a more absolute system , according to the charac- ter or authority of the prince from ...
... royal authority , whereby their laws were constituted upon the model of those of England , and more or less conformed to a free government , or to a more absolute system , according to the charac- ter or authority of the prince from ...
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... royal authority , and , though still in the infancy of a scarcely yet organized society , enjoyed already , in their new country , a peaceful and happy life ? the laws observed , justice administered , the magistrates respected ...
... royal authority , and , though still in the infancy of a scarcely yet organized society , enjoyed already , in their new country , a peaceful and happy life ? the laws observed , justice administered , the magistrates respected ...
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... royal coffers ; and that by the industry and productions of England , who sells them an immense quantity of her manufactures . The more they extend their foreign commerce , the more will they consume of our mer- chandise . This is a ...
... royal coffers ; and that by the industry and productions of England , who sells them an immense quantity of her manufactures . The more they extend their foreign commerce , the more will they consume of our mer- chandise . This is a ...
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Страница 94 - America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
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Страница 230 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. With an humble confidence in the mercies of...
Страница 93 - They are the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural rights of mankind and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen; equally bound by its laws, and equally participating in the constitution of 'this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards, of England.
Страница 146 - ... on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have for the present only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures: 1.
Страница 350 - ... tyranny which desolates her polluted shores. She invites us to prepare an asylum where the unhappy may find solace, and the persecuted repose. She entreats us to cultivate a propitious soil, where that generous plant which first sprung up and grew in England, but is now withered by the poisonous blasts of Scottish tyranny, may revive and flourish, sheltering under its salubrious and interminable shade all the unfortunate of the human race.
Страница 91 - When I proposed to tax America, I asked the House, if any gentleman would object to the right. I repeatedly asked it, and no man would attempt to deny it. Protection and obedience are reciprocal. Great Britain protects America ; America is bound to yield obedience. If not, tell me when the Americans were emancipated ? When they want the protection of this kingdom, they are always very ready to ask it. That protection has always been afforded them in the most full and ample manner.
Страница 51 - A member of parliament, chosen for any borough, represents not only the constituents and inhabitants of that particular place, but he represents the inhabitants of every other borough in Great Britain. He represents the city of London, and all...
Страница 93 - When, therefore, in this house we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do ? We your majesty's commons for Great Britain give and grant to your majesty, what ? Our own property ? No.
Страница 53 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...