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... consent of the wiser part of mankind , for twe thousand years , that the world has ever seen ; and of which there has never been an American edition by any other author . Boston , January 9 , 1834 . ENGRAVINGS IN VOLUME I. Landing of ...
... consent of the wiser part of mankind , for twe thousand years , that the world has ever seen ; and of which there has never been an American edition by any other author . Boston , January 9 , 1834 . ENGRAVINGS IN VOLUME I. Landing of ...
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... consent and under the guarantee of the sovereign authority ; the right not to contribute with our money without our own consent , has been solemnly recog- nized by the government in the charters it has granted to many of the colonies ...
... consent and under the guarantee of the sovereign authority ; the right not to contribute with our money without our own consent , has been solemnly recog- nized by the government in the charters it has granted to many of the colonies ...
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... consent to this new tax ; and as evils inspire more alarm at a distance than at approach , the colonists , not having experienced from this sudden imposition the prejudice apprehended in the uncertain future , would probably have become ...
... consent to this new tax ; and as evils inspire more alarm at a distance than at approach , the colonists , not having experienced from this sudden imposition the prejudice apprehended in the uncertain future , would probably have become ...
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... consent , or that of his representatives ; that such was the original and general right which the inhabitants of the colonies , as English subjects , carried with them , when they left their native land , to establish themselves in ...
... consent , or that of his representatives ; that such was the original and general right which the inhabitants of the colonies , as English subjects , carried with them , when they left their native land , to establish themselves in ...
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... consent of parliament . ' The reasoning about the colonies of Great Britain , drawn from the colonies of antiquity , is a mere useless display of learning ; for it is well known the colonies of the Tyrians in Africa , and of the Greeks ...
... consent of parliament . ' The reasoning about the colonies of Great Britain , drawn from the colonies of antiquity , is a mere useless display of learning ; for it is well known the colonies of the Tyrians in Africa , and of the Greeks ...
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Página 92 - 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 144 - ... on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have for the present only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures: 1.
Página 228 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. With an humble confidence in the mercies of...
Página 227 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Página 359 - Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross DELAWARE Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas M'Kean MARYLAND Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll, of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Página 55 - Britain can the consumption of foreign superfluities) our whole wealth centers finally amongst the merchants and inhabitants of Britain ; and if we make them richer, and enable them better to pay their taxes, it is nearly the same as being taxed ourselves, and equally beneficial to the crown.
Página 49 - A member of parliament, chosen for any borough, represents not only the constituents and inhabitants of that particular place, but he represents the inhabitants of every other borough in Great Britain. He represents the city of London, and all...
Página 91 - When, therefore, in this house we give and grant, we give and grant what is our own. But in an American tax, what do we do ? We your majesty's commons for Great Britain give and grant to your majesty, what ? Our own property ? No.
Página 51 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Página 93 - A great deal has been said without doors, of the power, of the strength of America. It is a topic that ought to be cautiously meddled with. In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.