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" Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. "
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham - Page 166
by Albert von Ruville - 1907
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 pages
...Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned, but the concurrence of the peers and...
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The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution: Or, Illustrations, by ..., Volume 1

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...Commons alone When, therefore, in this House we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax what do we do ? We, your majesty's Commons for Great Britain, give and grant to your majesty, what ? our own property ? No ; we give and grant...
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The pictorial field-book of the Revolution; or ..., Volume 1; Volume 122

Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...Commons alone When, therefore, in this House we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax what do we do ? We, your majesty's Commons for Great Britain, give and grant to your majesty, what ? our own property ? No ; we give and grant...
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The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Or, Illustrations, by ..., Volume 1

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...Commons alone When, therefore, in this House we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax what do we do ? We, your majesty's Commons for Great Britain, give and grant to your majesty, what ? our own property ? No ; we give and grant...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England ! Taxation is no part of the governing or legisla-^tive power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of.the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...Americans are the sous, not the bastards of England ! Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and...
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A Tramp to the Diggings: Being Notes of a Ramble in Australia and New ...

John Shaw (M.D.) - Australia - 1852 - 334 pages
...Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm, are all concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and...
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History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America

Carlo Botta - United States - 1852 - 974 pages
...Americans are the sons, not the bastards, of England. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers...
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...inhabitants. When, therefore, in this House we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do ? " We, Your Majesty's Commons for Great Britain, give and grant to Your Majesty," — What ? Our own property ? — No ! " We give...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...Ibcrefore. in this House," said his Lordship, "we give and grant, we give and grant what is our mrn. But in an American tax what do we do? We, your Majesty's Commons for Great Britain, give and grant to your Majesty — What ? Our own property? NJ. Wo give and grant...
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