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... passed in 1651 , seriously affect their imports and exports , but the manu- facture of certain goods was altogether prohibited . More- over , so far back as 1672 , duties had been placed upon certain articles in passing from one colony ...
... passed in 1651 , seriously affect their imports and exports , but the manu- facture of certain goods was altogether prohibited . More- over , so far back as 1672 , duties had been placed upon certain articles in passing from one colony ...
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... passed , the Ministry , I mean the present Ministry , thought it expedient to repeal five of the duties , and to leave ( for reasons best known to themselves ) only the sixth standing . Suppose any person , at the time of that repeal ...
... passed , the Ministry , I mean the present Ministry , thought it expedient to repeal five of the duties , and to leave ( for reasons best known to themselves ) only the sixth standing . Suppose any person , at the time of that repeal ...
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... passed limiting the dividend which the company might pay to 10 per cent .; and the directors , terrified by the action of the Government , purchased temporary exemption from further interference by agreeing to contribute £ 400,000 to ...
... passed limiting the dividend which the company might pay to 10 per cent .; and the directors , terrified by the action of the Government , purchased temporary exemption from further interference by agreeing to contribute £ 400,000 to ...
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... Passing therefore from the constitutional consideration to the mere policy , does not this letter imply that the idea of taxing America for the purpose of revenue is an abominable project , when the are Ministry suppose that none but ...
... Passing therefore from the constitutional consideration to the mere policy , does not this letter imply that the idea of taxing America for the purpose of revenue is an abominable project , when the are Ministry suppose that none but ...
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... passed with regard to the plantations , the words which distinguish revenue laws specifically as such were , I think , premeditatedly avoided . I do not say , Sir , that a form of words alters the nature of the law or abridges the power ...
... passed with regard to the plantations , the words which distinguish revenue laws specifically as such were , I think , premeditatedly avoided . I do not say , Sir , that a form of words alters the nature of the law or abridges the power ...
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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.