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... minds of the colonists with new jealousy and all sorts of apprehensions , then it was that they quarrelled with the old taxes as well as the new ; then it was , and not till then , that they questioned all the parts of your legislative ...
... minds of the colonists with new jealousy and all sorts of apprehensions , then it was that they quarrelled with the old taxes as well as the new ; then it was , and not till then , that they questioned all the parts of your legislative ...
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... minds . Sir , the letter strongly enforces that idea for though the repeal of the taxes is promised on commercial principles , yet the means of counter- acting the " insinuations of men with factious and se- ditious views " is by a ...
... minds . Sir , the letter strongly enforces that idea for though the repeal of the taxes is promised on commercial principles , yet the means of counter- acting the " insinuations of men with factious and se- ditious views " is by a ...
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... minds by an outcry , in this House , and out of it , that in America the Act of Navigation neither is or never was obeyed . But if you take the colonies through , I affirm that its au- thority never was disputed , that it was nowhere ...
... minds by an outcry , in this House , and out of it , that in America the Act of Navigation neither is or never was obeyed . But if you take the colonies through , I affirm that its au- thority never was disputed , that it was nowhere ...
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... mind exactly in the same proportion . Passing from that study , he did not go very largely into the world , but ... minds of remarkable enlargement . Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business ...
... mind exactly in the same proportion . Passing from that study , he did not go very largely into the world , but ... minds of remarkable enlargement . Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business ...
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... mind , such clear and sagacious sense , and such unshaken fortitude , as have bound me , as well as others much better than me , by an inviolable attachment to him from that time forward . Sir , Lord Rockingham very early in that summer ...
... mind , such clear and sagacious sense , and such unshaken fortitude , as have bound me , as well as others much better than me , by an inviolable attachment to him from that time forward . Sir , Lord Rockingham very early in that summer ...
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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...