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... sentiments of difaffection , which they hoped ultimately to impart to other colonies . Thefe refolute republicans would not have been fatisfied with a total abolition of the claim to taxation ; they anxiously awaited fuch conceffion ...
... sentiments of difaffection , which they hoped ultimately to impart to other colonies . Thefe refolute republicans would not have been fatisfied with a total abolition of the claim to taxation ; they anxiously awaited fuch conceffion ...
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... sentiments respecting the origin , continuance , and means of preventing thofe disturbances which agitated the colony . of the affem bly . By means which have never been ascertained , Dr. Proceedings Franklin became poffeffed of fome of ...
... sentiments respecting the origin , continuance , and means of preventing thofe disturbances which agitated the colony . of the affem bly . By means which have never been ascertained , Dr. Proceedings Franklin became poffeffed of fome of ...
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... sentiments of the Americans , spoke of him in terms not only expreffive of their sense of his merits , but incompatible with an attachment to the cause of their country . IN tracing the progrefs of thofe difcontents which united all ...
... sentiments of the Americans , spoke of him in terms not only expreffive of their sense of his merits , but incompatible with an attachment to the cause of their country . IN tracing the progrefs of thofe difcontents which united all ...
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... sentiments as their attachment to , or hatred of , the British government fuggefted . The people in most countries appeared to participate in fentiments with the Americans ; but the fovereigns in general displayed no difpofition to ...
... sentiments as their attachment to , or hatred of , the British government fuggefted . The people in most countries appeared to participate in fentiments with the Americans ; but the fovereigns in general displayed no difpofition to ...
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Page 102 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade, you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burthen them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools ; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Page 133 - All and each of which the aforesaid deputies in behalf of themselves, and their constituents, do claim, demand, and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties; which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their own consent, by their representatives in their several provincial legislatures.
Page 203 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we...
Page 198 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of...
Page 200 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 200 - Who are you, that should fret and rage and bite the chains of nature? Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire; and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities. Nature has said it. The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and...
Page 173 - I say we must necessarily undo these violent, oppressive acts. They must be repealed. You will repeal them. I pledge myself for it that you will in the end repeal them. I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.
Page 349 - Our situation is truly distressing. The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off; in some instances, almost by whole regiments, by half ones, and...
Page 227 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms.
Page 103 - It is necessary to coerce the negligent, to restrain the violent, and to aid the weak and deficient, by the overruling plenitude of her power. She is never to intrude into the place of the others, whilst they are equal to the common ends of their institution.