Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Sons, 1961 - 295 pagina's |
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... Grenville in 1764. Al- though it is difficult to determine how much smuggling there actually was in America , we are told by Sabine that nine - tenths probably of all the tea , wine , and fruit , sugar and molasses con- sumed in the ...
... Grenville in 1764. Al- though it is difficult to determine how much smuggling there actually was in America , we are told by Sabine that nine - tenths probably of all the tea , wine , and fruit , sugar and molasses con- sumed in the ...
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... Grenville gave the colony agents an option for their assemblies to tax themselves , which they had refused . I find that much stress is laid on this as a fact . However , it happens neither to be true nor possible . I will observe ...
... Grenville gave the colony agents an option for their assemblies to tax themselves , which they had refused . I find that much stress is laid on this as a fact . However , it happens neither to be true nor possible . I will observe ...
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... Grenville could not have made this pro- position to the agents for another reason . He was of opinion , which he has declared in this House an hundred times , that the colonies could not legally grant any revenue to the crown , and that ...
... Grenville could not have made this pro- position to the agents for another reason . He was of opinion , which he has declared in this House an hundred times , that the colonies could not legally grant any revenue to the crown , and that ...
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INTRODUCTION by Canon Peter McKevitt | 1 |
SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL BEFORE | 64 |
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES | 76 |
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