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... regard to our American measures , Thus much , however , I think it not amifs to lay before you ; That I am not , I hope , apt to take up or lay down my opinions lightly . I have held , and and ever fhall maintain , to the beft of my 6 ...
... regard to our American measures , Thus much , however , I think it not amifs to lay before you ; That I am not , I hope , apt to take up or lay down my opinions lightly . I have held , and and ever fhall maintain , to the beft of my 6 ...
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... regard to the nature of the object is the number of people in the colonics . I have taken for fome years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabitants ...
... regard to the nature of the object is the number of people in the colonics . I have taken for fome years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabitants ...
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... regard to the , high ariftocratick spirit of Virginia and the fouthern colonies , it has been proposed , I know , to reduce it , by declaring a ge- neral enfranchisement of their flaves . This pro- ject has had its advocates and ...
... regard to the , high ariftocratick spirit of Virginia and the fouthern colonies , it has been proposed , I know , to reduce it , by declaring a ge- neral enfranchisement of their flaves . This pro- ject has had its advocates and ...
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... regard to this complaint . If you mean to please any people , you must give them the boon which they afk ; not what you may think better for them , but of a kind totally different . Such an act act may be a wife regulation , but it is ...
... regard to this complaint . If you mean to please any people , you must give them the boon which they afk ; not what you may think better for them , but of a kind totally different . Such an act act may be a wife regulation , but it is ...
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... regard to America . By another act , where one of the parties was an Englishman , they ordained , that his trial fhould be always by English . They made acts to restrain trade , as you do ; and they prevented the Welsh from the ufe of ...
... regard to America . By another act , where one of the parties was an Englishman , they ordained , that his trial fhould be always by English . They made acts to restrain trade , as you do ; and they prevented the Welsh from the ufe of ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.