History of the American Revolution: With a Summary Review of the State and Character of the British Colonies of North America, Volumen1J. and B. Williams, 1836 - 377 páginas |
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... king was constitu- tionally vested with , over the people and legislature in England . The colonization of North America began at a pe- riod when the dread of arbitrary government was the predominant passion of the English nation ...
... king was constitu- tionally vested with , over the people and legislature in England . The colonization of North America began at a pe- riod when the dread of arbitrary government was the predominant passion of the English nation ...
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... kings , but friendly to republicanism . It would have been very astonishing if such colonists , after having tasted the sweets of liberty in a new land , had not in- stilled into the minds of their children a love of free- dom and an ...
... kings , but friendly to republicanism . It would have been very astonishing if such colonists , after having tasted the sweets of liberty in a new land , had not in- stilled into the minds of their children a love of free- dom and an ...
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... king and the parliament , divinity and law were the fashionable stu- dies of private gentlemen . The numberless disputes in a new country made the profession of the law lucrative , and increased its followers . Lawyers , in every age ...
... king and the parliament , divinity and law were the fashionable stu- dies of private gentlemen . The numberless disputes in a new country made the profession of the law lucrative , and increased its followers . Lawyers , in every age ...
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... kings of Spain afterwards made laws in favor of the liberties of the natives ; but the yoke was only shifted from the Americans to the Africans . " It may be noted as an instance of the in- consistency natural to men , " says Robertson ...
... kings of Spain afterwards made laws in favor of the liberties of the natives ; but the yoke was only shifted from the Americans to the Africans . " It may be noted as an instance of the in- consistency natural to men , " says Robertson ...
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... king his master ; declaring that he should continue to seize and send as prisoners to Canada , every Englishman who should attempt to trade on the Ohio , or any of its branches . Before ma- jor Washington had got back , or the ...
... king his master ; declaring that he should continue to seize and send as prisoners to Canada , every Englishman who should attempt to trade on the Ohio , or any of its branches . Before ma- jor Washington had got back , or the ...
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Página 148 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 66 - Countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such Acts of the British Parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole Empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of Taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Página 149 - 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.
Página 84 - ... for contributing their proportion to the common defence (such proportion to be raised under the authority of the general court or general assembly of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament), and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice...
Página 57 - ... abilities, had never, in any instance, presumed upon any opinion of their own. Deprived of his guiding influence, they were whirled about the sport of every gust, and easily driven into any port...
Página 157 - Resolved, therefore. That these States will receive all such foreigners who shall leave the armies of his Britannic majesty in America, and shall choose to become members of any of these States; and they shall be protected in the free exercise of their respective religions, and be invested with the rights, privileges, and immunities of natives, as established by the laws of these States...
Página 146 - Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry.
Página 68 - Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina...
Página 84 - Britain will not impose any duty, tax or assessment whatever, payable in any of his Majesty's colonies, provinces and plantations in North America or the West Indies, except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce, the net produce of such duties to be always paid and applied to and for the use of the colony, province or plantation in which the same shall be respectively levied...
Página 106 - In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it ; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.