Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Volume 18

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Rockwell and Churchill, 1887

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Halaman 96 - THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
Halaman 29 - And her successor, King James the first, who had imbibed high notions of the divinity of regal sway, more than once laid it down in his speeches, that, " as it is atheism and blasphemy " in a creature to dispute what the Deity may do, so it " is presumption and sedition in a subject to dispute what " a king may do in the height of his power...
Halaman 175 - And that it may be proper to repeal an Act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act to discontinue, in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of goods, wares, and merchandise at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America.
Halaman 28 - ... with decency and respect, the limits of the king's prerogative. A topic, that in some former ages was thought too delicate and sacred to be profaned by the pen of a subject.
Halaman 96 - ... end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are life, liberty, and property. If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce...
Halaman 95 - Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
Halaman 100 - ... and even our bed chambers, are exposed to be ransacked, our boxes chests & trunks broke open ravaged and plundered by. wretches, whom no prudent man would venture to employ even as menial servants ; whenever they are pleased to say they suspect there are in the house wares &c for which the dutys have not been paid.
Halaman 96 - ... the will or legislative authority of man; but only to have the law of nature for his rule." In the state of nature men may as the Patriarchs did, employ hired servants for the defence of their lives, liberty and property; and they should pay them reasonable wages.
Halaman 143 - That whoever shall directly or indirectly countenance this attempt, or in any wise aid or abet in unloading, receiving, or vending the tea sent, or to be sent out by the East India Company, while it remains subject to the payment of a duty here, is an enemy to his country.
Halaman 26 - A series of occurrences, many recent events, and especially the late journals of the house of lords, afford good reason to believe, that a deep-laid and desperate plan of imperial despotism has been laid, and partly executed, for the extinction of all civil liberty...

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