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... provinces , four islands , a hundred thousand men , and more than seventy millions of money ! Oh , says a silly man , full of his prerogative of dominion over a few beasts of the field , there is excellent wool on the back of a wolf and ...
... provinces , four islands , a hundred thousand men , and more than seventy millions of money ! Oh , says a silly man , full of his prerogative of dominion over a few beasts of the field , there is excellent wool on the back of a wolf and ...
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... provinces come to gen- eral ransom by bidding against each other , until you knock down the hammer , and determine a proportion of payments beyond all the powers of algebra to equalize and settle.38 11. The plan which I shall presume to ...
... provinces come to gen- eral ransom by bidding against each other , until you knock down the hammer , and determine a proportion of payments beyond all the powers of algebra to equalize and settle.38 11. The plan which I shall presume to ...
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... province of Pennsylvania . In the year 1704 that province called for £ 11,459 in value of your commodities , native and foreign . This was the whole . What did it demand in 1772 ? Why , nearly fifty times as much ; for in that year the ...
... province of Pennsylvania . In the year 1704 that province called for £ 11,459 in value of your commodities , native and foreign . This was the whole . What did it demand in 1772 ? Why , nearly fifty times as much ; for in that year the ...
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... Provinces , where the Church of England , notwithstanding its legal rights , is in reality no more than a sort of private sect , not composing most probably the tenth of the people . The Colonists left England when this spirit was high ...
... Provinces , where the Church of England , notwithstanding its legal rights , is in reality no more than a sort of private sect , not composing most probably the tenth of the people . The Colonists left England when this spirit was high ...
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... provinces it takes the lead . The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers . But all who read , and most do read , endeavor to obtain some smatter- ing in that science . I have been told by an eminent book ...
... provinces it takes the lead . The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers . But all who read , and most do read , endeavor to obtain some smatter- ing in that science . I have been told by an eminent book ...
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Page 62 - 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. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth; a spirit that, unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not...
Page 54 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Page 69 - ... which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 45 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is (let me say) of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 106 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly. This is the true Act of Navigation,* which binds to you the commerce of the colonies, and through them secures to you the wealth of the world. Deny them this participation of freedom,...
Page 73 - These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other; where reason is perplexed, and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.
Page 22 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, — the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 54 - We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 97 - It is besides a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.232 We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole of it together.
Page 107 - 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 honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.