The American Nation, a History: Andrews, C. M. Colonial self-government, 1652-1689Albert Bushnell Hart Harper & Brothers, 1904 - United States |
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... charged in England , in comparison with other countries . In a revision of 1663 another new and far - reaching clause was added : all European commodities des- tined for the colonies must first be carried to Eng- land and there be ...
... charged in England , in comparison with other countries . In a revision of 1663 another new and far - reaching clause was added : all European commodities des- tined for the colonies must first be carried to Eng- land and there be ...
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... charges . In doubtful points of law they would order the charters to be scrutinized , or would submit the question to the legal advisers of the crown . Sometimes they would transfer the question to the king in council to decide ...
... charges . In doubtful points of law they would order the charters to be scrutinized , or would submit the question to the legal advisers of the crown . Sometimes they would transfer the question to the king in council to decide ...
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... charges and settle boundary disputes , as when Maryland instructed her agents to oppose the de- mands of Penn . Some of the colonies - Connecti- cut , for example - employed English residents to do business that did not require a ...
... charges and settle boundary disputes , as when Maryland instructed her agents to oppose the de- mands of Penn . Some of the colonies - Connecti- cut , for example - employed English residents to do business that did not require a ...
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... charges of Rhode Island , the Quakers , and the heirs of royal- ists like Mason and Gorges , whose complaints were purely individual , and in no way touched the revenue or policy of the Protector . After the Restoration , Massachusetts ...
... charges of Rhode Island , the Quakers , and the heirs of royal- ists like Mason and Gorges , whose complaints were purely individual , and in no way touched the revenue or policy of the Protector . After the Restoration , Massachusetts ...
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... charges , and appointed a special committee , composed of Berkeley , Carteret , and William Coven- try , secretary to the duke of York , to report re- 1 Thurloe , State Papers , V. , 81 . N. Y. Docs . Rel . to Col. Hist . , II . , 385 ...
... charges , and appointed a special committee , composed of Berkeley , Carteret , and William Coven- try , secretary to the duke of York , to report re- 1 Thurloe , State Papers , V. , 81 . N. Y. Docs . Rel . to Col. Hist . , II . , 385 ...
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Page 183 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Page 183 - ... to support power in reverence with the people and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honorable for their just administration. For liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Page 311 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 183 - It is the great end of government to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Page 294 - So after hearty Entertainment, Of Drink and Victuals without Payment ; For Planters Tables, you must know, Are free for all that come and go. While Pon and Milk, with Mush well stoar'd, In wooden Dishes grac'd the Board ; With Homine and Syder-pap, (Which scarce a hungry Dog wou'd lap) Well stuff'd with Fat, from Bacon fry'd, Or with Molossus dulcify'd.
Page 183 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad. If it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Page 222 - «welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond you shall be hanged in half an hour.
Page 180 - ... the rivers and creeks be sounded on my side of Delaware River, especially Upland, in order to settle a great town, and be sure to make your choice where it is most navigable, high, dry, and healthy ; that is where most ships may best ride, of deepest draught of water, if possible to load or unload at the bank or keys side without boating and lightening of it. It would do well if the river coming into that creek be navigable, at least for boats up into the country...
Page 94 - I cannot but suspect assemblies would be of dangerous consequence, nothing being more known than the aptness of such bodies to assume to themselves many privileges, which prove destructive to, or very often disturb, the peace of government, when they are allowed.
Page 311 - Every Schollar, that on proofe is found able to read the Originalls of the Old and New Testament into the Latine tongue, and to resolve them Logically; withall being of godly life and conversation; And at any publick Act hath the Approbation of the Overseers and Master of the Colledge, is fit to be dignified with his first Degree.