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... English enterprise , ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are ftill , as it were , but in the griftle , and not yet hardened into the bone ...
... English enterprise , ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are ftill , as it were , but in the griftle , and not yet hardened into the bone ...
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... English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ; and this from a great variety of powerful caufes ... English ideas , and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like other mere ab- ftractions , is not to be found ...
... English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ; and this from a great variety of powerful caufes ... English ideas , and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like other mere ab- ftractions , is not to be found ...
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... English constitution , to insist on this privilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove , that the right had been ac- knowledged in ancient parchments , and blind ufages , to refide in a certain body called an house ...
... English constitution , to insist on this privilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove , that the right had been ac- knowledged in ancient parchments , and blind ufages , to refide in a certain body called an house ...
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... English Tartars ; and , pouring down upon your unfortified frontiers a fierce and irresistible cavalry , become mafters of your governours and your coun fellors , your collectors and comptrollers , and of all the flaves that adhered to ...
... English Tartars ; and , pouring down upon your unfortified frontiers a fierce and irresistible cavalry , become mafters of your governours and your coun fellors , your collectors and comptrollers , and of all the flaves that adhered to ...
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... English conftitution . Confulting at that oracle ( it was with all due humility and piety ) I found four capital examples in a fimilar cafe before me : thofe of Ireland , Wales , Chefter , and Durham . Ireland , before the English ...
... English conftitution . Confulting at that oracle ( it was with all due humility and piety ) I found four capital examples in a fimilar cafe before me : thofe of Ireland , Wales , Chefter , and Durham . Ireland , before the English ...
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Page 126 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 119 - Compare the two. This I offer to give you is plain and simple. The other full of perplexed and intricate mazes. This is mild; that harsh. This is found by experience effectual for its purposes; the other is a new project. This is universal; the other calculated for certain colonies only. This is immediate in its conciliatory operation; the other remote, contingent, full of hazard. Mine is what becomes the dignity of a ruling people; gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain...
Page 75 - 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 49 - England, Sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 53 - The colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest of all ; and even that stream of foreigners which has been constantly flowing into these colonies has, for the greatest part, been composed of dissenters from the establishments of their several countries, and have brought with them a temper and character far from alien to that of the people with whom they mixed.
Page 381 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 86 - With a preamble stating the entire and perfect rights of the crown of England, it gave to the Welsh all the rights and privileges of English subjects. A political order was established; the military power gave way to the civil; the marches were turned into counties. But that a nation should have a right to English liberties, and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties, the grant of their own property...
Page 47 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 52 - ... energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion.
Page 57 - 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.