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... seemed to be infinitely elated , and cried out , that the ministry , from envy to the glory of their predecessors , were prepared to repeal the stamp act . Near nine years after , the honourable gentleman takes quite 25 opposite ground ...
... seemed to be infinitely elated , and cried out , that the ministry , from envy to the glory of their predecessors , were prepared to repeal the stamp act . Near nine years after , the honourable gentleman takes quite 25 opposite ground ...
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... seemed to him and his friends to justify as strong a promise of support , as hath been usual to give in the beginning of a war with the most power- ful and declared enemies . When the accounts of the Amer- 25 ican governors came before ...
... seemed to him and his friends to justify as strong a promise of support , as hath been usual to give in the beginning of a war with the most power- ful and declared enemies . When the accounts of the Amer- 25 ican governors came before ...
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... seemed to 10 me at that time to be governed too much by general maxims . I speak with the freedom of history , and I hope without offence . One or two of these maxims , flowing from an opinion not the most indulgent to our unhappy ...
... seemed to 10 me at that time to be governed too much by general maxims . I speak with the freedom of history , and I hope without offence . One or two of these maxims , flowing from an opinion not the most indulgent to our unhappy ...
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... seemed to guide , because he was also sure to follow it . I beg pardon , Sir , if , when I speak of this and of other 5 great men , I appear to digress in saying something of their characters . In this eventful history of the ...
... seemed to guide , because he was also sure to follow it . I beg pardon , Sir , if , when I speak of this and of other 5 great men , I appear to digress in saying something of their characters . In this eventful history of the ...
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... seemed to have taken its flight for ever , we are at this very instant nearly as free to choose a plan for our American gov- ernment as we were on the first day of the session . If , Sir , 85 we incline to the side of conciliation , we ...
... seemed to have taken its flight for ever , we are at this very instant nearly as free to choose a plan for our American gov- ernment as we were on the first day of the session . If , Sir , 85 we incline to the side of conciliation , we ...
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Page 123 - 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 100 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 145 - And that it may be proper to repeal an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled, "An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Page 100 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Page 160 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 83 - 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; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 160 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 103 - ... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Page 99 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 114 - ... that adhered to them. Such would, and, in no long time, must be, the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime, and to suppress as an evil, the command and blessing of Providence,