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... able to force them ? Oh , but it seems we are in the right . The tax is trifling , in effect it is rather an exoneration than an imposition ; three fourths of the duty formerly payable on teas exported to America is taken off , - the ...
... able to force them ? Oh , but it seems we are in the right . The tax is trifling , in effect it is rather an exoneration than an imposition ; three fourths of the duty formerly payable on teas exported to America is taken off , - the ...
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... able declaration . After stating the vigorous meas- ures which had been pursued , the speech from the throne proceeds : - " You have assured me of your firm support in the prosecution of them . Nothing , in my opinion , could be more ...
... able declaration . After stating the vigorous meas- ures which had been pursued , the speech from the throne proceeds : - " You have assured me of your firm support in the prosecution of them . Nothing , in my opinion , could be more ...
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... able them to dispose of such articles as we forced upon them , and for which , without some degree of liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and de- tailed enumerations ; hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks ...
... able them to dispose of such articles as we forced upon them , and for which , without some degree of liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and de- tailed enumerations ; hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks ...
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... able ; the multitude struck them with terror . But the grand manœuvre in that business of new regulating the colonies was the fifteenth act of the fourth of George the Third , which , besides containing several of the matters to which I ...
... able ; the multitude struck them with terror . But the grand manœuvre in that business of new regulating the colonies was the fifteenth act of the fourth of George the Third , which , besides containing several of the matters to which I ...
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... able ; nor , I believe , would the Americans themselves have disputed it at a proper time and season . But it should be considered , that the American governments themselves have , in the prosecution of the late war , contracted very ...
... able ; nor , I believe , would the Americans themselves have disputed it at a proper time and season . But it should be considered , that the American governments themselves have , in the prosecution of the late war , contracted very ...
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Страница 181 - I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. .Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Страница 180 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Страница 96 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates...
Страница 126 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Страница 95 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Страница 109 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our...
Страница 133 - The power inadequate to all other things is often more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them obedient.
Страница 140 - 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.
Страница 107 - ... of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice in such province or colony, it will be proper, if such proposal shall be approved by his Majesty...
Страница 184 - That it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America...