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... force . This common law recognizes the three classes into which every people is divided I , the nobility , II , the professional class and , III , the burgesses . The charter of every Stuart colony made a provision for the just ...
... force . This common law recognizes the three classes into which every people is divided I , the nobility , II , the professional class and , III , the burgesses . The charter of every Stuart colony made a provision for the just ...
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... force only can keep fraud at bay ! To write the life of Berkeley could be done better in verse than in prose . He was a hero - a " Rokeby " - the only hero in all the history of the thirteen English colonies of North America whose ...
... force only can keep fraud at bay ! To write the life of Berkeley could be done better in verse than in prose . He was a hero - a " Rokeby " - the only hero in all the history of the thirteen English colonies of North America whose ...
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... force at St. Mary's , where the Spanish had built a fort . This he captured and hung every mother's son of them on crosses about the place with the words above each " Not as Spaniards but as murderers . " This was the land , now vacant ...
... force at St. Mary's , where the Spanish had built a fort . This he captured and hung every mother's son of them on crosses about the place with the words above each " Not as Spaniards but as murderers . " This was the land , now vacant ...
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... forces are in opposition in the state , the one the deadly enemy of the other , and as Plato says , the one can not rise in power but the other must fall . Woe to the state , woe to the king , if it be the fall of genius and honor ...
... forces are in opposition in the state , the one the deadly enemy of the other , and as Plato says , the one can not rise in power but the other must fall . Woe to the state , woe to the king , if it be the fall of genius and honor ...
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... force against all comers who were different from them , the history of the early king's Chapel of Boston is an en- lightenment to those who are capable of profiting by a lesson . Besides , King's Chapel , although having passed into the ...
... force against all comers who were different from them , the history of the early king's Chapel of Boston is an en- lightenment to those who are capable of profiting by a lesson . Besides , King's Chapel , although having passed into the ...
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Page 77 - 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 82 - Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob will find himself much mistaken. Th^ey have men amongst them who know very well what they are about...
Page 18 - Mr. Drummond! You are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour...
Page 16 - The burgesses, who were immediately convened, resolving to become the arbiters of the fate of the colony, enacted, " that the supreme power of the government of this country shall be resident in the assembly; and all writs shall issue in its name, until there shall arrive from England a commission, which the assembly itself shall adjudge to be lawful.
Page 108 - If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them ; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men...
Page 9 - He was at this time about forty, and a man of charming manners. His politeness was proverbial, and delighted the Virginians, who had a weakness for courtliness. He belonged to an ancient English family ; believed in monarchy, as a devotee believes in his saint; and brought to the little capital at Jamestown all the graces, amenities, and well-bred ways which at that time were articles of faith with the Cavaliers. He was certainly a Cavalier of cavaliers, taking that word to signify an adherent of...
Page 50 - Divers gentlemen and others being joined in a military company, desired to be made a corporation, but the council considering from the example of the Praetorian band among the Romans and the templars in Europe, how dangerous it might be to erect a standing authority of military men, which might easily in time overthrow the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes, yet they were allowed to be a company, but subordinate to all authority.
Page 82 - During the whole affair, the rebels attacked us in a very scattered, irregular manner, but with perseverance and resolution, nor did they ever dare to form into any regular body. Indeed they knew too well what was proper, to do so. Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself very much mistaken.
Page 37 - All such shall be acknowledged Patroons of New Netherland who shall, within the space of four years next after they have given notice to any of the Chambers of the Company here, or to the Commander or Council there, undertake to plant a Colonie there of fifty souls, upwards of fifteen years old...
Page 62 - Pitt, who is said to have told Mr. Franklin, " that when the war closed, if he should be in the ministry, he would take measures to prevent the colonies from having a power to refuse or delay the supplies that might be wanted for national purposes.