A letter to Edmund Burke ... in answer to his printed speech, said to be spoken in the House of commons on the twenty-second of March, 1775R. Raikes, and sold by T. Cadell, London, 1775 - 58 pages |
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... to be interwoven into the very Constitution of the present Ameri- Here therefore , as we are agreed in the Fact , let every one draw his own Inference . III . YOUR : III . YOUR third grand Caufe is Religion : cans . merce , 16 LETTER.
... to be interwoven into the very Constitution of the present Ameri- Here therefore , as we are agreed in the Fact , let every one draw his own Inference . III . YOUR : III . YOUR third grand Caufe is Religion : cans . merce , 16 LETTER.
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... Ameri- " cans , if being ordered thereby to raise the Sum " total of the Taxes , the mighty Privilege had " been left to them of saying , how much should " be paid for an Instrument in Writing on Pa- " per , and how much for another on ...
... Ameri- " cans , if being ordered thereby to raise the Sum " total of the Taxes , the mighty Privilege had " been left to them of saying , how much should " be paid for an Instrument in Writing on Pa- " per , and how much for another on ...
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... prudential Course ought Spain to take in its present Situa- tion , --- Whether to call off as many Ameri- can Subjects as it can , and then entirely to abandon abandon all those immenfe and distant Regions , which it 40 LETTER.
... prudential Course ought Spain to take in its present Situa- tion , --- Whether to call off as many Ameri- can Subjects as it can , and then entirely to abandon abandon all those immenfe and distant Regions , which it 40 LETTER.
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... Ameri- can Taxation , --- you forgot , that by the very same Means , you were undermining your own Edifice for a gratuitous Revenue . 4 FOR 1ft .--- It plainly appears , that even your own Plan for obtaining a gratuitous Revenue , from ...
... Ameri- can Taxation , --- you forgot , that by the very same Means , you were undermining your own Edifice for a gratuitous Revenue . 4 FOR 1ft .--- It plainly appears , that even your own Plan for obtaining a gratuitous Revenue , from ...
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Acts of Parliament alſo Ameri American Aſſembly Aſſiſtance aſſured becauſe beſides beſt BURKE Cafe Calviniſtical Catalonia Caufes Cauſe Chicane Church Church of England Congreſs conſider Conſtitution Country Courſe Cuſtomers deſcribed Deſcription Diffent Diſpoſition diſtant EDMUND BURKE Emigrants Empire England English Creditor eſtabliſh Expence expreſs Expreſſions extenſive fame fierce Spirit firſt fome foon Form of Government fuch GLOCESTER Grants Great-Britain Holland and Germany Houſe increaſe Inſtances Intereſts JOSIAH TUCKER juſt laſt leaſt leſs Letter manifeſted Matter mean moſt muſt neceſſary North-America Northern Colonies Number Obſervation Occafion Oppoſition ourſelves paſs Peace Perſons pleaſe preſent Provinces Proviſion Purpoſe raiſe ready in Defence referve refuſing Religion Repreſentative republican Reſources reſpect reſt ſame ſay ſee Senſe ſet ſhall ſhort ſhould ſimple Slaves ſome Spain ſpeak Stamp-Act ſtill ſtrong ſtrongly ſuch ſupplied ſuppoſed Syſtem Taxes Tea Act themſelves ther theſe Thing thoſe Trade Uſe vaſt vernment whoſe yourſelf
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Page 44 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of...
Page 38 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 9 - England, Sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 7 - ... whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Page 42 - Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow — a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint. They would change their manners with...
Page 57 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 25 - Permit me, sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study.
Page 9 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources, of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Page 7 - In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole...
Page 20 - It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.