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... British empire- only then did the British government enter upon a policy intended to make the empire a unity . ' Independence had long existed in spirit in most of the essential matters of colonial life , and the British government had ...
... British empire- only then did the British government enter upon a policy intended to make the empire a unity . ' Independence had long existed in spirit in most of the essential matters of colonial life , and the British government had ...
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... British empire ruled by Parlia- ment in all its parts , either in England or oversea ? or should Parliament govern at home , and the colo- nial assemblies in America , with only a federal bond to unite them ? Should the English ...
... British empire ruled by Parlia- ment in all its parts , either in England or oversea ? or should Parliament govern at home , and the colo- nial assemblies in America , with only a federal bond to unite them ? Should the English ...
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... British empire , or , more accurately , the dominant party in each section of the empire , faced each other upon a question of principle . Neither could believe in the honesty of the other , for each argued out of a different past . The ...
... British empire , or , more accurately , the dominant party in each section of the empire , faced each other upon a question of principle . Neither could believe in the honesty of the other , for each argued out of a different past . The ...
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... British merchants , agreed not to remit their English debts , and dressed in homespun to avoid wearing imported clothes . On the morning that the act went into effect ( No- vember 1 , 1765 ) bells tolled the death of the nation . Shops ...
... British merchants , agreed not to remit their English debts , and dressed in homespun to avoid wearing imported clothes . On the morning that the act went into effect ( No- vember 1 , 1765 ) bells tolled the death of the nation . Shops ...
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... British government tried to give temporary aid to the East India Company by re- mitting the heavy revenue on tea entering English ports , through which it must pass before being shipped to America , and by licensing the company itself ...
... British government tried to give temporary aid to the East India Company by re- mitting the heavy revenue on tea entering English ports , through which it must pass before being shipped to America , and by licensing the company itself ...
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Page 77 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 142 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of Magistrate, Legislator, or Judge, to be hereditary.
Page 123 - ... deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Page 144 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage...
Page 136 - The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life...
Page 323 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 140 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Page 231 - For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.
Page 42 - Such a dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another, in this great change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again.
Page 188 - I confess I dread their overruling influence in council ; I dread their low cunning, and those levelling principles which men without character and without fortune in general possess, which are so captivating to the lower class of mankind, and which will occasion such a fluctuation of property as to introduce the greatest disorder.