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... proper truft of a member of the House of Commons . But the liberty , the only liberty I mean , is a liberty connected with order ; that not only exists along with order and virtue , but which cannot exift at all without them . It ...
... proper truft of a member of the House of Commons . But the liberty , the only liberty I mean , is a liberty connected with order ; that not only exists along with order and virtue , but which cannot exift at all without them . It ...
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... proper to deny , that a very great part of you have any votes to give . He fixes a standard period of time in his own ima- gination , not what the law defines , but merely what the convenience of his client fuggefts , by which he would ...
... proper to deny , that a very great part of you have any votes to give . He fixes a standard period of time in his own ima- gination , not what the law defines , but merely what the convenience of his client fuggefts , by which he would ...
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... proper to throw it out , I owe you a clear explanation of my poor fentiments on that fubject . He tells you , that " the topick of inftructions . " has occafioned much altercation and uneafiness " in this city ; " and he expreffes ...
... proper to throw it out , I owe you a clear explanation of my poor fentiments on that fubject . He tells you , that " the topick of inftructions . " has occafioned much altercation and uneafiness " in this city ; " and he expreffes ...
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... proper execution of that truft , I was obliged to take more than common pains , to inftruct my- felf in every thing which relates to our colonies . I was not lefs under the neceffity of forming fome fixed ideas , concerning the general ...
... proper execution of that truft , I was obliged to take more than common pains , to inftruct my- felf in every thing which relates to our colonies . I was not lefs under the neceffity of forming fome fixed ideas , concerning the general ...
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... proper , if fuch " propofal fhall be approved by his majefty , and the two houfes of par- " liament , and for fo long as fuch provision shall be made accord- ingly , to forbear , in respect of such province or colony , to levy any duty ...
... proper , if fuch " propofal fhall be approved by his majefty , and the two houfes of par- " liament , and for fo long as fuch provision shall be made accord- ingly , to forbear , in respect of such province or colony , to levy any duty ...
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Page 126 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 119 - Compare the two. This I offer to give you is plain and simple. The other full of perplexed and intricate mazes. This is mild; that harsh. This is found by experience effectual for its purposes; the other is a new project. This is universal; the other calculated for certain colonies only. This is immediate in its conciliatory operation; the other remote, contingent, full of hazard. Mine is what becomes the dignity of a ruling people; gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain...
Page 75 - 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. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page 49 - England, Sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 53 - The colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest of all ; and even that stream of foreigners which has been constantly flowing into these colonies has, for the greatest part, been composed of dissenters from the establishments of their several countries, and have brought with them a temper and character far from alien to that of the people with whom they mixed.
Page 381 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 86 - With a preamble stating the entire and perfect rights of the crown of England, it gave to the Welsh all the rights and privileges of English subjects. A political order was established; the military power gave way to the civil; the marches were turned into counties. But that a nation should have a right to English liberties, and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties, the grant of their own property...
Page 47 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 52 - ... energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion.
Page 57 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources; of descent; of form of government; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern; of education; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.