A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending All the Principal Events Both in the Field and in the Cabinet, Volume 1F. Betts, 1822 |
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... regard to great political commotions , exists perhaps in the same de- gree as in more arbitrary governments . We are ever prone to abuse the freedom which we enjoy . We are too ready to ascribe motives for actions , which perhaps never ...
... regard to great political commotions , exists perhaps in the same de- gree as in more arbitrary governments . We are ever prone to abuse the freedom which we enjoy . We are too ready to ascribe motives for actions , which perhaps never ...
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... regard the subject in too contracted a point of view . Satisfied with the ostensible causes , or those which are usually put forward by the more immediate actors in this im- portant business , they are too liable to overlook those ...
... regard the subject in too contracted a point of view . Satisfied with the ostensible causes , or those which are usually put forward by the more immediate actors in this im- portant business , they are too liable to overlook those ...
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... regard to the political interests and geo- graphical situation of this country , may be abundant- ly seen in many of the royal charters - the alteration or abrogation of which , at their own pleasure , pro- duced disquietudes , traces ...
... regard to the political interests and geo- graphical situation of this country , may be abundant- ly seen in many of the royal charters - the alteration or abrogation of which , at their own pleasure , pro- duced disquietudes , traces ...
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... regard every legislative act of their distant rulers , with respect to themselves , as an usurpation of authority , which of right belonged only to their own representatives . Every thing , indeed , tended to engender and to nur- ture a ...
... regard every legislative act of their distant rulers , with respect to themselves , as an usurpation of authority , which of right belonged only to their own representatives . Every thing , indeed , tended to engender and to nur- ture a ...
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... regard himself as not superiour to the low- est of his fellow - citizens . Thus was a feeling of e- quality engendered among themselves ; and knowing none superiour to themselves , they were easily brought to feel the same equality ...
... regard himself as not superiour to the low- est of his fellow - citizens . Thus was a feeling of e- quality engendered among themselves ; and knowing none superiour to themselves , they were easily brought to feel the same equality ...
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Halaman 344 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Halaman 252 - But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Halaman 251 - MR. PRESIDENT: Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Halaman 346 - We must therefore acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as .we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
Halaman 210 - 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. "Resolved, 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Halaman 211 - 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 275 - ... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored. Necessity has not yet driven us into that desperate measure, or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them. We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent states.
Halaman 70 - Resolved, That the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them, who can only know what taxes the people are able to bear, and the easiest mode of raising them, and are equally affected by such taxes themselves, is the distinguishing characteristic of British freedom, and without which the ancient constitution cannot subsist.
Halaman 83 - It is my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.
Halaman 274 - Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.