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... taken at the beginning of the last session of the last Parliament , and indeed during the whole course of it , to asperse the characters and decry the measures of those who were supposed to be friends to America , in order to weaken the ...
... taken at the beginning of the last session of the last Parliament , and indeed during the whole course of it , to asperse the characters and decry the measures of those who were supposed to be friends to America , in order to weaken the ...
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... taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time . and one pretence , and some at another , just as they pressed , without any sort of regard to their relations or dependencies . They never had any kind of sys- tem , right or wrong ...
... taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time . and one pretence , and some at another , just as they pressed , without any sort of regard to their relations or dependencies . They never had any kind of sys- tem , right or wrong ...
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... taken off , - the place of collection is only shifted ; instead of the retention of a shilling from the drawback here , it is three - pence custom paid in America . " All this , Sir , is very true . But this is the very folly and ...
... taken off , - the place of collection is only shifted ; instead of the retention of a shilling from the drawback here , it is three - pence custom paid in America . " All this , Sir , is very true . But this is the very folly and ...
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... taken together , is found in the statute - book until the year I have mentioned : that is , the year 1764. All before this period stood on commercial regulation and restraint . The scheme of a colony revenue by British authority ...
... taken together , is found in the statute - book until the year I have mentioned : that is , the year 1764. All before this period stood on commercial regulation and restraint . The scheme of a colony revenue by British authority ...
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... taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circum- stances of human nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . - -- I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have been taken ...
... taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circum- stances of human nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . - -- I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have been taken ...
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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...