An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America: Part First, Containing an Historical Outline of Their Merits and Wrongs as Colonies, and Strictures Upon the Calumnies of the British Writers |
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... nature and scope of their designs . If we have , as I verily believe , a band of implacable and indefatigable foes , in those who direct the public affairs , and mould the pub- lic mind , of Great Britain , we should be fully alive to ...
... nature and scope of their designs . If we have , as I verily believe , a band of implacable and indefatigable foes , in those who direct the public affairs , and mould the pub- lic mind , of Great Britain , we should be fully alive to ...
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... nature is not perfect with us , must exist in a certain measure , in the rest , I mean paltry intrigue for petty offices , and in- terested effort to influence votes . Cases of some enor- mity may occur in the first line of abuse , and ...
... nature is not perfect with us , must exist in a certain measure , in the rest , I mean paltry intrigue for petty offices , and in- terested effort to influence votes . Cases of some enor- mity may occur in the first line of abuse , and ...
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... nature of niggars . " " He dialogues much as he goes along , and all his American interlocutors , of what- ever degree , talk in the same cant phrases of the most vulgar cacophony . Their language , on all occasions , is provincial and ...
... nature of niggars . " " He dialogues much as he goes along , and all his American interlocutors , of what- ever degree , talk in the same cant phrases of the most vulgar cacophony . Their language , on all occasions , is provincial and ...
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... nature of those abuses in the system of British suffrage and representa- tion , greater than which Lord Grey is pleased to believe , may or do exist under that of the United States . In the year 1793 , the honourable Mr. Grey , then a ...
... nature of those abuses in the system of British suffrage and representa- tion , greater than which Lord Grey is pleased to believe , may or do exist under that of the United States . In the year 1793 , the honourable Mr. Grey , then a ...
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... nature of the rights of voting , has a different and still more intolerable operation . In that great and populous division of the kingdom , not only the great mass of the householders , but of the landholders also , are excluded from ...
... nature of the rights of voting , has a different and still more intolerable operation . In that great and populous division of the kingdom , not only the great mass of the householders , but of the landholders also , are excluded from ...
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Page 403 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Page 403 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is t6 them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 151 - For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
Page 214 - Miss Seward, looking to him with mild but steady astonishment, said, " Sir, this is an instance that we are always most violent against those whom we have injured.
Page 76 - Nothing in the history of mankind is like their progress. For my part, I never cast an eye on their flourishing commerce and their cultivated and commodious life, but they seem to me rather ancient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate events and a train of successful industry, accumulating wealth in many centuries, than the colonies of yesterday...
Page 249 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 5 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 436 - Catholic was, under the same act, to forfeit his estate to his nearest Protestant relation, until, through a profession of what he did not believe, he redeemed by his hypocrisy, what the law had transferred to the kinsman as the recompense of his profligacy.
Page 430 - That our royal will and pleasure is, that no person within the said colony, at any time hereafter, shall be any wise molested, punished, disquieted, or called in question, for any differences in opinion in matters of religion...