HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT1856 |
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... Lords , 368 - in the Commons , 372 - Progress of Ameri- can resistance , 374 - The Custom Houses , 374 - The Courts , 374 - Committees of Correspondence , 377 - Union projected , 377 - Bernard asks for an army , 379 . CHAPTER XXI . HAS ...
... Lords , 368 - in the Commons , 372 - Progress of Ameri- can resistance , 374 - The Custom Houses , 374 - The Courts , 374 - Committees of Correspondence , 377 - Union projected , 377 - Bernard asks for an army , 379 . CHAPTER XXI . HAS ...
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... Lords , 421 - It is reversed in the House of Commoms , 422 - The House of Lords vote for enforcing the Stamp Act , 422 - The House of Commons refuse to do so , 423 - Opinion of the King , 424 - Continued resistance of America , 425 ...
... Lords , 421 - It is reversed in the House of Commoms , 422 - The House of Lords vote for enforcing the Stamp Act , 422 - The House of Commons refuse to do so , 423 - Opinion of the King , 424 - Continued resistance of America , 425 ...
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... Yorkshire , so numerous in peo- ple and powerful in riches.1 The lord of the borough 1 The illustration is in substance , and almost in words , from Locke . CHAP . of Newport , in the Isle of Wight ENGLAND AS IT WAS IN 1763 . 39.
... Yorkshire , so numerous in peo- ple and powerful in riches.1 The lord of the borough 1 The illustration is in substance , and almost in words , from Locke . CHAP . of Newport , in the Isle of Wight ENGLAND AS IT WAS IN 1763 . 39.
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... lord , having no fear of oppression , obeying no laws but such as he seemed to have assisted in making , and reasoning on politics with that free inquiry which , in a despotism , leads to revolution . The idea of the perfection of ...
... lord , having no fear of oppression , obeying no laws but such as he seemed to have assisted in making , and reasoning on politics with that free inquiry which , in a despotism , leads to revolution . The idea of the perfection of ...
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... Lord Deputy who obtained its enactment , reserved the initiative in legis- lation to the crown of England . No ... lords within the pale , as well as Ca- tholic Ireland , adhered to their ancient religion . The Irish resisted the act of ...
... Lord Deputy who obtained its enactment , reserved the initiative in legis- lation to the crown of England . No ... lords within the pale , as well as Ca- tholic Ireland , adhered to their ancient religion . The Irish resisted the act of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 395 - 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.
Página 75 - 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.
Página 394 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Página 391 - The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 4 - 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...
Página 345 - You have rights antecedent to all earthly government ; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws ; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.
Página 395 - Be to her faults a little blind Be to her virtues very kind." Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the house what is my opinion. It is, that the stamp act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately.
Página 384 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Página 385 - Great Britain, give and grant to Your Majesty, what? Our own property? No. We give and grant to Your Majesty, the property of Your Majesty's Commons of America.
Página 385 - House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here ? Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom ? Would to God that respectable representation...