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... spirits , a great deal higher . You did not think it uncom- mercial to tax the whole mass of your manufactures , and , let 5 me add , your agriculture too ; for , I now recollect , British corn is there also taxed up to ten per cent ...
... spirits , a great deal higher . You did not think it uncom- mercial to tax the whole mass of your manufactures , and , let 5 me add , your agriculture too ; for , I now recollect , British corn is there also taxed up to ten per cent ...
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... spirit 5 altogether unlike . But of what service is this observation to the cause of those that make it ? It is a full refutation of the pretence for their present cruelty to America ; for it shows , out of their own mouths , that our ...
... spirit 5 altogether unlike . But of what service is this observation to the cause of those that make it ? It is a full refutation of the pretence for their present cruelty to America ; for it shows , out of their own mouths , that our ...
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... spirit and benefit of the British constitution to every part of the British dominions . The option , both of the measure , and of the principle of repeal , 25 was made before the session ; and I wonder how any one can read the king's ...
... spirit and benefit of the British constitution to every part of the British dominions . The option , both of the measure , and of the principle of repeal , 25 was made before the session ; and I wonder how any one can read the king's ...
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... spirit and fortitude has lately been , in the circulation of the season , and in some hazarded declamations in this House , attributed 10 to timidity . If , Sir , the conduct of ministry , in proposing the repeal , had arisen from ...
... spirit and fortitude has lately been , in the circulation of the season , and in some hazarded declamations in this House , attributed 10 to timidity . If , Sir , the conduct of ministry , in proposing the repeal , had arisen from ...
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... spirits into this House . It was a time for a man to act in . We had power- 20 ful enemies ; but we had faithful and determined friends ; and a glorious cause . We had a great battle to fight ; but we had the means of fighting ; not as ...
... spirits into this House . It was a time for a man to act in . We had power- 20 ful enemies ; but we had faithful and determined friends ; and a glorious cause . We had a great battle to fight ; but we had the means of fighting ; not as ...
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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,