The State of the Nation: In a Series of Letters to His Grace, the Duke of Bedford |
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... America , and the present war , ( considering it to have commenced in 1793 ) and which have in an emi- nent degree contributed to the present state of the na- tion , are cases in point as strong as history can afford . It is not merely ...
... America , and the present war , ( considering it to have commenced in 1793 ) and which have in an emi- nent degree contributed to the present state of the na- tion , are cases in point as strong as history can afford . It is not merely ...
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... America , the passions and prejudices which gave it birth , and so long continued it " to the grievance and dishonour of the kingdom , " having now subsided , the verdict of the nation , at this time decidedly condemns that war as ...
... America , the passions and prejudices which gave it birth , and so long continued it " to the grievance and dishonour of the kingdom , " having now subsided , the verdict of the nation , at this time decidedly condemns that war as ...
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... America in the parliament of the mother country ; in which the colonists had not any representation ; 1 and the system in the year following was still improved upon by the passing of their famous Stamp Act ; 2 when , in consequence of ...
... America in the parliament of the mother country ; in which the colonists had not any representation ; 1 and the system in the year following was still improved upon by the passing of their famous Stamp Act ; 2 when , in consequence of ...
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... America or of England , the co- lonies , or the mother country , as opportunities should present themselves ; whereby the faction behind the throne , and their allies the faction of the Boroughs , might be gratified with the plunder of ...
... America or of England , the co- lonies , or the mother country , as opportunities should present themselves ; whereby the faction behind the throne , and their allies the faction of the Boroughs , might be gratified with the plunder of ...
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... America , were now , however , for some time suffered to go on without any new irritation , while the people there could not but view with a jealous eye , the unqualified assertion of the Declaratory Act , and while the court faction ...
... America , were now , however , for some time suffered to go on without any new irritation , while the people there could not but view with a jealous eye , the unqualified assertion of the Declaratory Act , and while the court faction ...
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Page 106 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 61 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength?
Page 114 - ... his charitable toils for the relief of India, did not forget the poor rotten constitution of his native country. For her, he did not disdain to stoop to the trade of a wholesale upholsterer for this house, to furnish it not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach some other houses, but with real, solid, living patterns of true modern virtue.
Page 60 - our children;" but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone. Is it because the natural resistance of things, and the various mutations of time...
Page 95 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Page 14 - States and a corresponding amendment of the Constitution, be applied in time of peace to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education and other great objects within each State. In time of war, if injustice by ourselves or others must sometimes produce war, increased as the same revenue will be...
Page 116 - Eastern harlot ; which so many of the people, so many of the nobles of tlns land, had drained to the very dregs. Do you think that no reckoning was to follow this lewd debauch? that no payment was to be demanded for this riot of public drunkenness, and national prostitution ? Here ! you have it, here, before you.
Page 66 - ... convicted, shall be subject and liable to such pains and penalties, as by any law now in force persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury are subject and liable to.
Page 14 - ... the revenue thereby liberated may, by a just repartition among the states, and a corresponding amendment of the constitution, be applied, in time of peace, to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each state.
Page 158 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.