 | William Massey - 1865 - 460 Seiten
...generous policy advocated by the chief minister; but in deference to the King,* who maintained that ' there must always be one tax to keep up the right,' and, against his better nature, he gave his voice for the miserable and fatal compromise upon which the... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 Seiten
...George III. and his ministers decided to repeal all the taxes except that on tea; for, said his Majesty, "I am clear there must always be one tax to keep up the right, and as such I approve of the tea-duty ; " 129 and ships full of tea were sent over to Charleston, Philadelphia, Boston, and New... | |
 | 1896 - 1006 Seiten
...King and his Ministers decided to repeal all the taxes except that on tea ; for, said his Majesty, ' I am clear there must always be one tax to keep up the right, and as such I approve of the tea-duty ; ' and ships full of tea were sent over to Charleston, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York."... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1897 - 694 Seiten
...Parliament to permit them to make exports free of duty to America. The King, however, refused ; he said : " there must always be one tax to keep up the right, and as such I approve of the tea duty."'140 The actual duty on the tea was trifling — only threepence a pound. But the Americans regarded... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1898 - 458 Seiten
...ago settled his policy. " I am clear," he announced to Lord North in the previous September, " that there must always be one tax to keep up the right, and as such I approve of the Tea Duty." To secure this object he was prepared to fight, and was in a hurry to begin. Ten days before Parliament... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1901 - 744 Seiten
...Parliament to permit them to make exports free of duty to America. The King, however, refused ; he said : " there must always be one tax to keep up the right, and as such I approve of the tea duty." *** and Charleston took measures to prevent the landing or sale of the "pernicious herb." The first... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - 1905 - 270 Seiten
...North, 24 August, 1774. The policy of the King had been determined. The colonies must submit or triumph. "I do not wish to come to severer measures, but we...the right, and as such I approve of the Tea Duty." To Lord North, 11 September, 1774. The new Parliament assembled November 30, 1774, and the King's speech... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - 1905 - 268 Seiten
..."I do not wish to come to peverer measures, but we must not retreat; by coolness and an unrernitted pursuit of the measures that have been adopted I trust...the right, and as such I approve of the Tea Duty." To Ijord North, 11 September, 1774. The new Parliament assembled November 30, 1774, and the King's... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1907 - 756 Seiten
...to the opinions of North America ; the die is now cast, the Colonies must either submit or triumph. I do not wish to come to severer measures, but we...the right, and as such I approve of the Tea Duty. . . . 3rd February 1/75. I am much pleased at your information of the very respectable majority in... | |
 | Charles Assheton Whately Pownall - 1908 - 622 Seiten
...must either submit or triumph. I do not wish to come to severer measures, but we must not retreat. ... I am clear there must always be one tax to keep up the right, and as such I approve the tea duty." When despatches arrived containing the endorsement of the proceedings in Boston by the... | |
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I do not wish to come to severer measures, but we must not retreat; by coolness and an unremitted pursuit of the measures that have been adopted I trust they will come to submit; I have no objection afterwards to their seeing that there is no inclination... 
