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Popular passages
Page 300 - We have offered you our measure. You will reject it. We deprecate yours ; you will persevere. Having no hopes left to persuade or dissuade, and having discharged our duty, we shall trouble you no more, and after this day shall not attend the House of Commons.
Page 284 - That the ports of this country are by right open to all foreign countries not at war with the King; and that any burden thereupon, or obstruction thereto, save only by the Parliament of Ireland, are unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 62 - Chinese potters had better command of their materials than in the latter part of the seventeenth and the early part of the eighteenth century.
Page 288 - Such has been your conduct, and at such conduct every order of your fellowsubjects have a right to exclaim ! The merchant may say to you — the constitutionalist may say to you — the American may say to you — and I, I now say, and say to your beard : Sir, you are not an honest man.
Page 249 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 16 - Lies, a fair type of Babylon : " Prophets rejoice, and all ye saints, " God shall avenge your long complaints !" 2 He said, and dreadful as he stood He sunk the millstone in the flood ; " Thus terribly shall Babel fall ; " Thus, and no more be found at all.
Page 245 - that the prosecuting and informing against papists was an honourable service to the government.
Page 314 - This is not only to confirm the contents of that, but also to approve of certain commands to you; likewise, to command you to prosecute certain instructions, until I shall, under my own hand, give you other commands. And though you will hear...
Page 303 - I am confident that this honest, trusty bearer will give you good satisfaction why I have not in every thing done as you desired; the want of confidence in you being so far from being the cause thereof that I am every day more and more confirmed in the trust that I have of you. For, believe me, it is not in the power of any to make you suffer in my opinion by ill offices. But of this and divers other things I have given to Sir J. Winter so full instructions that I will say no more, but that I am,...
Page 54 - I will bring my people again, as I did from Basan ; mine own will I bring again, as I did sometime from the deep of the sea. 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the same.