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Page 1806
... late been of that tendency ! Those things which used to be the greatest hindrances have been removed . You have not the ill examples of immoral persons to be a temptation to you . There is not now that vain worldly talk and ill company ...
... late been of that tendency ! Those things which used to be the greatest hindrances have been removed . You have not the ill examples of immoral persons to be a temptation to you . There is not now that vain worldly talk and ill company ...
Page 1818
... late war , and is so still , on account of the great debt then contracted , at least in this province , in proportion to our numbers and abilities , than that which , in every way , was laid on the people either of Scotland , Ireland ...
... late war , and is so still , on account of the great debt then contracted , at least in this province , in proportion to our numbers and abilities , than that which , in every way , was laid on the people either of Scotland , Ireland ...
Page 1819
... late times , as it might easily have been done , and to good purpose . Besides all which , it is undoubtedly true that the circulating money in all the colonies would not have been sufficient to have paid the stamp duty only for two ...
... late times , as it might easily have been done , and to good purpose . Besides all which , it is undoubtedly true that the circulating money in all the colonies would not have been sufficient to have paid the stamp duty only for two ...
Page 1822
... late parliamentary act . There arose hereupon a general sus- picion whether they esteemed us brethren and treated us with that kindness we might justly expect from them . This jeal- ousy , working in our breasts , cooled the fervor of ...
... late parliamentary act . There arose hereupon a general sus- picion whether they esteemed us brethren and treated us with that kindness we might justly expect from them . This jeal- ousy , working in our breasts , cooled the fervor of ...
Page 1828
... late ministry , full of projections tending to the hurt of these colo- nies , was so seasonably changed into the present patriotic one , which is happily disposed , in all the methods of wisdom , to promote our welfare . It was under ...
... late ministry , full of projections tending to the hurt of these colo- nies , was so seasonably changed into the present patriotic one , which is happily disposed , in all the methods of wisdom , to promote our welfare . It was under ...
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Page 1809 - Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Page 1980 - They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace ; when there is no peace.
Page 2150 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 2192 - But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly. This is the true Act of Navigation which binds to you the commerce of the colonies, and through them secures to you the wealth of the world. 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 2192 - 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 1919 - Act be repealed, absolutely, totally, and immediately; that the reason for the repeal be assigned, because it was founded on an erroneous principle. At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation, that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 2192 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Page 2182 - We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole of it together.
Page 1968 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 2143 - For, in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate, without attacking some of those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood.