An Inquiry Into the Views, Services, Principles, and Influences of the Leading Men in the Origination of Our Union: And in the Formation and Early Administration of Our Present Government, Volume 1Saxton and Kelt, 1847 |
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... duty at this time , is under three thousand . These , nine hundred and eighty - one excepted , are militia , and stand engaged only till the last of this month . ' Gen. Greene to April 20 . * * * ' Our strength now is trifling . It is ...
... duty at this time , is under three thousand . These , nine hundred and eighty - one excepted , are militia , and stand engaged only till the last of this month . ' Gen. Greene to April 20 . * * * ' Our strength now is trifling . It is ...
Halaman 18
... duty , which we owe to God , our country , ourselves , and posterity , by all lawful ways and means in our power , to maintain , defend and preserve those civil and re- ligious rights and liberties , for which many of our fathers fought ...
... duty , which we owe to God , our country , ourselves , and posterity , by all lawful ways and means in our power , to maintain , defend and preserve those civil and re- ligious rights and liberties , for which many of our fathers fought ...
Halaman 19
... duty they owe to their country , and have thereby given great and just offence to this people ; therefore re- solved , That this county do recommend it to all persons who have so highly offended by accepting said departments , and have ...
... duty they owe to their country , and have thereby given great and just offence to this people ; therefore re- solved , That this county do recommend it to all persons who have so highly offended by accepting said departments , and have ...
Halaman 30
... duty hath been or shall be paid ; and from and after the first day of March next , we will not purchase or use any East India tea whatever : nor will we , nor shall any person for or under us , purchase or use any of those goods , wares ...
... duty hath been or shall be paid ; and from and after the first day of March next , we will not purchase or use any East India tea whatever : nor will we , nor shall any person for or under us , purchase or use any of those goods , wares ...
Halaman 34
... duty we owe to ourselves and posterity , to your interest , and the general welfare of the British empire , leads us to address you on this very important subject . Know then , that we consider ourselves , and do insist , that we are ...
... duty we owe to ourselves and posterity , to your interest , and the general welfare of the British empire , leads us to address you on this very important subject . Know then , that we consider ourselves , and do insist , that we are ...
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Halaman 26 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Halaman 69 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.
Halaman 27 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Halaman 32 - ... any person within the limits of their appointment, has violated this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to...
Halaman 129 - Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed.
Halaman 28 - All and each of which the aforesaid deputies, in behalf of themselves and their constituents, do claim, demand, and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties; which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their own consent, by their representatives in their several provincial legislatures.
Halaman 479 - Our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions, and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times.
Halaman 27 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Halaman 285 - The check our detachment sustained on the 27th ultimo, has dispirited too great a proportion of our troops, and filled their minds with apprehension and despair. The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return. Great numbers of them have gone off — in some instances, almost by whole regiments, by half ones, 'and by companies at a time.
Halaman 28 - It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional, dangerous and destructive to the freedom of American legislation.