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... against his own acts , is another queftion . The law will decide it . I fhall only speak of it as it concerns the propriety of publick conduct in this city . I do not pretend to lay down rules of decorum for other gentlemen . They are ...
... against his own acts , is another queftion . The law will decide it . I fhall only speak of it as it concerns the propriety of publick conduct in this city . I do not pretend to lay down rules of decorum for other gentlemen . They are ...
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... against his own present inclinations . I owe myself , in all things , to all the freemen of this city . My particular friends have a demand on me , that I fhould not deceive their expecta- tions . Never was caufe or man fupported with ...
... against his own present inclinations . I owe myself , in all things , to all the freemen of this city . My particular friends have a demand on me , that I fhould not deceive their expecta- tions . Never was caufe or man fupported with ...
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... against my own pretenfions . The gentleman , who is not fortunate as I have been in this conteft , en- joys , in this refpect , a confolation full of honour both to himself and to his friends . They have certainly left nothing undone ...
... against my own pretenfions . The gentleman , who is not fortunate as I have been in this conteft , en- joys , in this refpect , a confolation full of honour both to himself and to his friends . They have certainly left nothing undone ...
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... against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative affembly of one nation , with one inte- reft , that of the whole ; where , not local pur- poses , not local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good ...
... against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative affembly of one nation , with one inte- reft , that of the whole ; where , not local pur- poses , not local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good ...
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... against each other , until you knock down the hammer , and determine a proportion of payments , beyond all the powers of algebra to equalise and settle . The plan , which I fhall presume to fuggeft , de- rives , however , one great ...
... against each other , until you knock down the hammer , and determine a proportion of payments , beyond all the powers of algebra to equalise and settle . The plan , which I fhall presume to fuggeft , de- rives , however , one great ...
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Page 126 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 119 - Compare the two. This I offer to give you is plain and simple. The other full of perplexed and intricate mazes. This is mild; that harsh. This is found by experience effectual for its purposes; the other is a new project. This is universal; the other calculated for certain colonies only. This is immediate in its conciliatory operation; the other remote, contingent, full of hazard. Mine is what becomes the dignity of a ruling people; gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain...
Page 75 - 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. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page 49 - England, Sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 53 - The colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest of all ; and even that stream of foreigners which has been constantly flowing into these colonies has, for the greatest part, been composed of dissenters from the establishments of their several countries, and have brought with them a temper and character far from alien to that of the people with whom they mixed.
Page 381 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 86 - With a preamble stating the entire and perfect rights of the crown of England, it gave to the Welsh all the rights and privileges of English subjects. A political order was established; the military power gave way to the civil; the marches were turned into counties. But that a nation should have a right to English liberties, and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties, the grant of their own property...
Page 47 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 52 - ... energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion.
Page 57 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources; of descent; of form of government; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern; of education; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.