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... ' Officers and the Sloop Liberty at Boston -- Troops ordered from Halifax - Refusal of the Assembly to rescind its former Acts - Dissolution of the Assembly . 16 26 26 34 42 CHAPTER VII . Excitement in Boston at the Report that.
... ' Officers and the Sloop Liberty at Boston -- Troops ordered from Halifax - Refusal of the Assembly to rescind its former Acts - Dissolution of the Assembly . 16 26 26 34 42 CHAPTER VII . Excitement in Boston at the Report that.
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... liberty , and the security of ordinary civil rights ; that their social life and industry might be free from the prying , meddling , grasping intrusion of a host of irresponsible officials sent out from England , and countenanced by ...
... liberty , and the security of ordinary civil rights ; that their social life and industry might be free from the prying , meddling , grasping intrusion of a host of irresponsible officials sent out from England , and countenanced by ...
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... liberty was long antecedent to those questions of taxation , of tariff , duties and stamps , which finally brought about the American Revolu- tion . There were certain men among the colonists , some of them misguided , some venal ...
... liberty was long antecedent to those questions of taxation , of tariff , duties and stamps , which finally brought about the American Revolu- tion . There were certain men among the colonists , some of them misguided , some venal ...
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... liberty and patriotism . He vehemently denied the right of Parliament to make laws for their commonwealth , and delivered a speech of fiery indignation , which aroused a strong feeling in the public mind . The judges of the Court , not ...
... liberty and patriotism . He vehemently denied the right of Parliament to make laws for their commonwealth , and delivered a speech of fiery indignation , which aroused a strong feeling in the public mind . The judges of the Court , not ...
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... liberty , the possession of their own property , and the power of local legis- lation for their own government , subject only to a negative of particular acts by the Crown , but with the sole power of imposing taxes in the colony . It ...
... liberty , the possession of their own property , and the power of local legis- lation for their own government , subject only to a negative of particular acts by the Crown , but with the sole power of imposing taxes in the colony . It ...
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Seite 255 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Seite 254 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 249 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost...
Seite 540 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Seite 237 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Seite 134 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Seite 134 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, — they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 143 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Seite 134 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another— ^-that these two things may exist without any mutual relation — the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Seite 302 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.