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... supply of provender . Remember , you are to make three trips this season , and unless you are very diligent you will be too late , as our crops will be early in . Take care to avoid the Guarda Costas . I place an entire reliance upon ...
... supply of provender . Remember , you are to make three trips this season , and unless you are very diligent you will be too late , as our crops will be early in . Take care to avoid the Guarda Costas . I place an entire reliance upon ...
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... supplies the means of subsistence to a vast number of her most useful inhabitants . The experiment we have made here- tofore , shows us of how much importance our com- mercial connexion is to her ; and gives us the high- est assurance ...
... supplies the means of subsistence to a vast number of her most useful inhabitants . The experiment we have made here- tofore , shows us of how much importance our com- mercial connexion is to her ; and gives us the high- est assurance ...
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... supply of those articles they used to take from us ? They would deserve to be despised for their meanness , did they not . " To these objections I reply , first , with respect to the inhabitants of Great Britain ; that if they are our ...
... supply of those articles they used to take from us ? They would deserve to be despised for their meanness , did they not . " To these objections I reply , first , with respect to the inhabitants of Great Britain ; that if they are our ...
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... supplies of flax - seed , which Ireland might draw elsewhere , could be trifling , in comparison with those received from us , and not at all equivalent to her wants . But if this were not the case ; if she might procure a sufficiency ...
... supplies of flax - seed , which Ireland might draw elsewhere , could be trifling , in comparison with those received from us , and not at all equivalent to her wants . But if this were not the case ; if she might procure a sufficiency ...
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... supply them tolerably ? The Canadians have been indolent , and have not improved their country as they ought to have done . The wheat they raise at present , over and above what they have occasion for themselves , would be found to go ...
... supply them tolerably ? The Canadians have been indolent , and have not improved their country as they ought to have done . The wheat they raise at present , over and above what they have occasion for themselves , would be found to go ...
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Page 113 - Plantations, shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises, and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.
Page 75 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 121 - America, and to their successors and assigns, all that part of America, lying and being in breadth from fortv degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line to the forty-eighth degree of the said northerly latitude inclusively and in length of and within all the breadth aforesaid, throughout all the main lands from sea to sea...
Page 127 - ... shall have and enjoy all liberties and immunities of free and natural subjects within any the dominions of us, our heirs or successors, to all intents, constructions and purposes, whatsoever, as if they, and every of them, were born within the realm of England.
Page 121 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission...
Page 120 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 114 - And also to make, ordain, and establish all manner of orders, laws, directions, instructions, forms, and ceremonies of government and magistracy fit and necessary for and concerning the government of the said colony and plantation...
Page 220 - Provided nevertheless, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs or successors, to make such provision out of the rest of the said accustomed dues and rights, for the encouragement of the Protestant religion, and for the maintenance and support of a Protestant clergy within the said province, as he or they shall, from time to time, think necessary and expedient.
Page 120 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.