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... you have since brought upon General Conway . 1 Mr. Dowdeswell . The most important witness was Benjamin Franklin . the king's friends . " 2.e. , 66 yourselves , were not afraid steadily to look in the 38 Burke's Speeches.
... you have since brought upon General Conway . 1 Mr. Dowdeswell . The most important witness was Benjamin Franklin . the king's friends . " 2.e. , 66 yourselves , were not afraid steadily to look in the 38 Burke's Speeches.
Page 39
... look back to that time , I consider him as placed in one of the most trying situations in which , perhaps , any man ever stood . In the House of Peers there were very few of the Ministry , out of the noble lord's own particular ...
... look back to that time , I consider him as placed in one of the most trying situations in which , perhaps , any man ever stood . In the House of Peers there were very few of the Ministry , out of the noble lord's own particular ...
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... look upon the rights stated in that Act exactly in the manner in which I viewed them on its very first proposition , and which I have often taken the liberty , with great humility , to lay before you . I look , I say , on the imperial ...
... look upon the rights stated in that Act exactly in the manner in which I viewed them on its very first proposition , and which I have often taken the liberty , with great humility , to lay before you . I look , I say , on the imperial ...
Page 61
... lost a great deal more , and that those who look for a revenue from the provinces never could have pursued , even in that light , a course more directly repugnant to their purposes . Now , Sir , I trust I have shown , American Taxation 61.
... lost a great deal more , and that those who look for a revenue from the provinces never could have pursued , even in that light , a course more directly repugnant to their purposes . Now , Sir , I trust I have shown , American Taxation 61.
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... look down as from a precipice . It is difficult in itself , and it is rendered more intricate by a great variety of plans of conduct . I do not mean to enter into them . I will not suspect a want of good intention in framing them . But ...
... look down as from a precipice . It is difficult in itself , and it is rendered more intricate by a great variety of plans of conduct . I do not mean to enter into them . I will not suspect a want of good intention in framing them . But ...
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Page iv - WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES...
Page 143 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Page xiii - 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 110 - 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 89 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 13 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Page 109 - Parliament in which they are not represented. If you mean to satisfy them at all, you must satisfy them with regard to this complaint. If you mean to please any people, you must give them the boon which they ask ; not what you may think better for them, but of a kind totally different.
Page 95 - All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Page 93 - Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the state. The question of money was not with them so immediate. But in England it was otherwise. On this point of taxes the ablest pens and most eloquent tongues have been exercised; the greatest spirits have acted and suffered.
Page 94 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.