Works, Том 2Little, Brown, and Company, 1865 |
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... gives us ? He has reprobated in one part of his speech the rule he had laid down for debate in the other , and , after ... give me leave to say , either useless or dangerous . He asserts , that retro- spect is not wise ; and the proper ...
... gives us ? He has reprobated in one part of his speech the rule he had laid down for debate in the other , and , after ... give me leave to say , either useless or dangerous . He asserts , that retro- spect is not wise ; and the proper ...
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... give the House satisfaction , I wish to tread the narrow ground to which alone the honorable gen- tleman , in one part of his speech , has so strictly con- fined us . He desires to know , whether , if we were to repeal this tax ...
... give the House satisfaction , I wish to tread the narrow ground to which alone the honorable gen- tleman , in one part of his speech , has so strictly con- fined us . He desires to know , whether , if we were to repeal this tax ...
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... give up the former Parliamentary revenue which subsisted in that country , or even any one of the articles which compose it . I affirm also , that , when , departing from the maxims of that repeal , you revived the scheme of taxation ...
... give up the former Parliamentary revenue which subsisted in that country , or even any one of the articles which compose it . I affirm also , that , when , departing from the maxims of that repeal , you revived the scheme of taxation ...
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... give so much alarm to his honorable friend . His work was not bad in its principle , but imperfect in its execution ; and the motion on your paper presses him only to com- plete a proper plan , which , by some unfortunate and ...
... give so much alarm to his honorable friend . His work was not bad in its principle , but imperfect in its execution ; and the motion on your paper presses him only to com- plete a proper plan , which , by some unfortunate and ...
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... give up your most certain reve- nues and your clearest interest , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of three - pence . But no commodity will bear ...
... give up your most certain reve- nues and your clearest interest , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of three - pence . But no commodity will bear ...
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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...