The English in America, Том 2Colburn and Company, 1851 |
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... Assembly- Appointment and death of Governor Burnet - Arrival of Governor Belcher - End of contest about fixed salaries 38 · CHAPTER III . SKETCH OF POLITICAL EVENTS FROM 1740 TO 1763 . Review of the state of the colonies from the ...
... Assembly- Appointment and death of Governor Burnet - Arrival of Governor Belcher - End of contest about fixed salaries 38 · CHAPTER III . SKETCH OF POLITICAL EVENTS FROM 1740 TO 1763 . Review of the state of the colonies from the ...
Стр. v
... assemblies of general officers and governors suggest the idea of Congress - Dispute between Lord Loudon and the General Court about supplies for the troops - Attack on the judges , and also the custom - house officers - Question as to ...
... assemblies of general officers and governors suggest the idea of Congress - Dispute between Lord Loudon and the General Court about supplies for the troops - Attack on the judges , and also the custom - house officers - Question as to ...
Стр. vii
... Assembly restrained from legislative functions- Board of Revenue established in America - Penn- sylvania instructs ... assemblies that he will repeal all the duties except that on tea - Mob at Boston attacks a picket guard of soldiers ...
... Assembly restrained from legislative functions- Board of Revenue established in America - Penn- sylvania instructs ... assemblies that he will repeal all the duties except that on tea - Mob at Boston attacks a picket guard of soldiers ...
Стр. ix
... Assembly - Proportion of English and French members - Gradual change in character of delegates - Impeachment of judges- Repeated reference to Parliament - Lord Aylmer entreats the Assembly to bring forward all their grievances at once ...
... Assembly - Proportion of English and French members - Gradual change in character of delegates - Impeachment of judges- Repeated reference to Parliament - Lord Aylmer entreats the Assembly to bring forward all their grievances at once ...
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... Assembly- Downward tendency of democracy in France - Dif- ference between Anglo - Saxon and Gallican races illustrated by California - Americans could not retain their institutions if France were evacuated for them , nor could the ...
... Assembly- Downward tendency of democracy in France - Dif- ference between Anglo - Saxon and Gallican races illustrated by California - Americans could not retain their institutions if France were evacuated for them , nor could the ...
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Стр. 160 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Стр. 135 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the subject of the proposed Stamp Act.
Стр. 266 - The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Стр. 111 - In the next place, it is perpetual; there is no return. A man is accountable to no person for his doings. Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
Стр. 204 - Colonies, do resolve, that a meeting of Committees, from the several Colonies on this Continent is highly expedient and necessary, to consult upon the present state of the Colonies, and the miseries, to which they are, and must be reduced, by the operation of certain Acts of Parliament respecting America...
Стр. 94 - Representatives that happen to be sitting within that time, or that shall be especially for that purpose convened, may and shall choose members for the Grand Council, in the following proportion, that is to say : Massachusetts Bay 7, New Hampshire 2, Connecticut 5, Rhode Island 2, New York 4, New Jersey 3, Pennsylvania 6, Maryland 4, Virginia 7, North Carolina 4, South Carolina 4...
Стр. 212 - ... 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, in such province...
Стр. 94 - It is proposed — That humble application be made for an act of parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America, including all the said colonies, within and under which government each colony may retain its present constitution, except in the particulars wherein a change may be directed by the said act as hereafter follows...
Стр. 204 - America, and to deliberate and determine upon wise and proper measures, to be by them recommended to all the colonies, for the recovery and establishment of their just rights and liberties, civil and religious, and the restoration of union and harmony between Great Britain and the colonies, most ardently desired by all good men: Therefore, resolved, that the Hon.
Стр. 233 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?