The Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts: Containing Also, Notices of Some Contemporary Characters and Events, from the Year 1760 to 1775Wells and Lilly, 1823 - 508 halaman |
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... obtained , unless all example of its advantages be effaced from the earth . The spirit which predominates in particular eras among civilized nations , will often be promoted , at the same moment , by incidents that have no striking ...
... obtained , unless all example of its advantages be effaced from the earth . The spirit which predominates in particular eras among civilized nations , will often be promoted , at the same moment , by incidents that have no striking ...
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... obtained , than could be received of most men from their printed works , because few persons were more frank and fearless in giving their opinions to the public ; and they were , besides , thrown off so rapid- ly , and published with so ...
... obtained , than could be received of most men from their printed works , because few persons were more frank and fearless in giving their opinions to the public ; and they were , besides , thrown off so rapid- ly , and published with so ...
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... obtained for their country . The charac- ters of the great leaders in the American revolution , are gradually emerging from the jealous level of their own times . As this sinks away , they will be- come daily more conspicuous , and when ...
... obtained for their country . The charac- ters of the great leaders in the American revolution , are gradually emerging from the jealous level of their own times . As this sinks away , they will be- come daily more conspicuous , and when ...
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... obtain a character in any profession soon after his first appearance , he hardly will ever obtain one . The bulk of mankind , I need not inform you , who have conversed with , studied and found many of them 3 LIFE OF JAMES OTIS . 11.
... obtain a character in any profession soon after his first appearance , he hardly will ever obtain one . The bulk of mankind , I need not inform you , who have conversed with , studied and found many of them 3 LIFE OF JAMES OTIS . 11.
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... common , annual frolic , undertaken without malice , and conducted without substantial injury ; obtained their acquittal and refused all fees . This anniversary , which was got up originally with political LIFE OF JAMES OTIS . 25.
... common , annual frolic , undertaken without malice , and conducted without substantial injury ; obtained their acquittal and refused all fees . This anniversary , which was got up originally with political LIFE OF JAMES OTIS . 25.
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acts of parliament affairs afterwards American American revolution answer appointed arbitrary army assembly Boston Boston Gazette Britain British called cause character charter citizens civil Colonel colonies colonists command committee common conduct considered constitution council Court crown defend duty enemies engaged England English excited favour feelings Franklin friends gave gentleman give Governor Bernard Hancock Harvard College honour Hutchinson inhabitants interest James Otis John Robinson king legislature letter liberty Lieutenant Governor Lord lord Hillsborough Lord Shelburne majesty's manner Massachusetts measures ment military mind ministry Molineux mother country nation nature never occasion officers opinion parliament party patriots period persons political President Adams principles province racter received remarkable representation represented respect revenue revolution Samuel Adams sent session shew soon sovereign speech spirit stamp act sugar act talents taxes tion took town troops vote whole Writs of Assistance
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Halaman 61 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against Writs of Assistance. Then and there, was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there, the child Independence was born.
Halaman 336 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Halaman 336 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Halaman 137 - The people are Protestants; and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion. This is a persuasion not only favorable to liberty, but built upon it. I do not think, Sir, that the reason of this averseness in the dissenting churches from all that looks like absolute government is so much to be sought in their religious tenets, as in their history.
Halaman 77 - They went much farther; they attempted to prove, and they succeeded, that in theory it ought to be so, from the particular nature of a House of Commons as an immediate representative of the people, whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not. They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty can subsist. The Colonies...
Halaman 137 - All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Halaman 137 - It is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the protestant religion. This religion, under a variety of denominations, agreeing in nothing but in the communion of the spirit of liberty, is predominant in most of the northern provinces, where the Church of England, notwithstanding its legal rights, is in reality no more than a sort of private sect, not composing most probably the tenth of the people. The colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest...
Halaman 61 - Otis was a flame of fire : with a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. American independence was then and there born. Every man, of an immense crowded audience, appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance.
Halaman 137 - Religion, always a principle of 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.
Halaman 77 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist. The colonies draw from you, as with their lifeblood, these ideas and principles. Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing.