History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent, Volume 3Little, 1876 - United States |
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... present , and the inhabitants never were so expensive in their habits of life . They , with the southern colonies , can well discharge this expense . " The party of royalists who had devised the congress , as subsidiary to the war ...
... present , and the inhabitants never were so expensive in their habits of life . They , with the southern colonies , can well discharge this expense . " The party of royalists who had devised the congress , as subsidiary to the war ...
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... presents that their vengeful spirits were appeased ; wampum belts of confirmed love had been exchanged , -when the commissioners of Massachu- setts , acting in harmony with Clinton and Shirley , and adopting their opinions and almost ...
... presents that their vengeful spirits were appeased ; wampum belts of confirmed love had been exchanged , -when the commissioners of Massachu- setts , acting in harmony with Clinton and Shirley , and adopting their opinions and almost ...
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... present situation of things , " he had de- clared to Newcastle , " it would be highly improper to have an inefficient man at the head of the board of trade ; " and , at his suggestion , on the first day of November , 1748 , two months ...
... present situation of things , " he had de- clared to Newcastle , " it would be highly improper to have an inefficient man at the head of the board of trade ; " and , at his suggestion , on the first day of November , 1748 , two months ...
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... present , and re- serve , " the despotic clauses ; but it continued to cherish the spirit that dictated them , till it had itself ceased to exist . At the same time Massachusetts was removing every motive to interfere with its currency ...
... present , and re- serve , " the despotic clauses ; but it continued to cherish the spirit that dictated them , till it had itself ceased to exist . At the same time Massachusetts was removing every motive to interfere with its currency ...
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... present sentiments of his majesty's ministers ; and you might have guessed at them by the bill lately brought into parliament for enforcing the king's instructions . Consider , " he adds , " the great liberties you are indulged with ...
... present sentiments of his majesty's ministers ; and you might have guessed at them by the bill lately brought into parliament for enforcing the king's instructions . Consider , " he adds , " the great liberties you are indulged with ...
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Page 359 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 547 - 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 425 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 103 - Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth...
Page 439 - I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Page 222 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 547 - Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the House what is really my opinion. It is that the Stamp Act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately; that the reason for the repeal be assigned, because it was founded upon an erroneous principle.
Page 296 - ... at plough. Secondly, These laws also ought to be designed for no other end ultimately, but the good of the people. Thirdly, They must not raise taxes on the property of the people, without the consent of the people, given by themselves or their deputies.
Page 309 - tis rough and narrow, And winds with short turns down the precipice ; And in its depth there is a mighty rock, Which has, from unimaginable years, Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down...
Page 546 - I was at pains to collect, to digest, to consider them ; and I will be bold to affirm, that the profits to Great Britain from the trade of the colonies, through all its branches, is two millions a year. This is the fund that carried you triumphantly through the last war, The estates that were rented at two thousand pounds a year, threescore years ago, are at three thousand pounds at present. Those estates sold then from fifteen to eighteen years purchase; the same may now be sold for thirty.