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... continue on this ill - chosen ground , your difficul- ties thicken on you ; and therefore my conclusion is , remove from a bad position as quickly as you can . The disgrace , and the necessity of yielding , both of them , grow upon you ...
... continue on this ill - chosen ground , your difficul- ties thicken on you ; and therefore my conclusion is , remove from a bad position as quickly as you can . The disgrace , and the necessity of yielding , both of them , grow upon you ...
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... continue to pay for it . But hopes of another kind were held out to them ; and in particular , I well remember that Mr. Townshend , in a brilliant ha- rangue on this subject , did dazzle them by playing before their eyes the image of a ...
... continue to pay for it . But hopes of another kind were held out to them ; and in particular , I well remember that Mr. Townshend , in a brilliant ha- rangue on this subject , did dazzle them by playing before their eyes the image of a ...
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... continue it for four years longer at least before it will be clear . " These are the words of Governor Bernard's letter to a member of the old ministry , and which he has since printed . Mr. Grenville could not have made this ...
... continue it for four years longer at least before it will be clear . " These are the words of Governor Bernard's letter to a member of the old ministry , and which he has since printed . Mr. Grenville could not have made this ...
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... continue to levy or to impose for the regulation of commerce : the net produce of the duties last mentioned to be carried to the account of such province or colony respectively . " - Resolution moved by Lord North in the Committee , and ...
... continue to levy or to impose for the regulation of commerce : the net produce of the duties last mentioned to be carried to the account of such province or colony respectively . " - Resolution moved by Lord North in the Committee , and ...
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... continues , the exaggeration ends . Whilst we are discussing any given magnitude , they are grown to it . Whilst we spend our time in delib- erating on the mode of governing two millions , we shall find we have millions more to manage ...
... continues , the exaggeration ends . Whilst we are discussing any given magnitude , they are grown to it . Whilst we spend our time in delib- erating on the mode of governing two millions , we shall find we have millions more to manage ...
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Page 181 - I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. .Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 180 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 96 - 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...
Page 126 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Page 95 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Page 109 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our...
Page 133 - The power inadequate to all other things is often more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them obedient.
Page 140 - 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.
Page 107 - ... of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice in such province or colony, it will be proper, if such proposal shall be approved by his Majesty...
Page 184 - That it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America...