Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Sons, 1961 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina 70
... appear awkward under such circumstances . It would be still more awkward in me , if I were gravely to look the sheriffs in the face , and to tell them , they were not to determine my cause on my own principles ; not to make the return ...
... appear awkward under such circumstances . It would be still more awkward in me , if I were gravely to look the sheriffs in the face , and to tell them , they were not to determine my cause on my own principles ; not to make the return ...
Pagina 134
... appear at the outcry , what is the condition of those assemblies who offer by themselves or their agents to tax themselves up to your ideas of their proportion ? The refractory colonies , who refuse all composition , will remain taxed ...
... appear at the outcry , what is the condition of those assemblies who offer by themselves or their agents to tax themselves up to your ideas of their proportion ? The refractory colonies , who refuse all composition , will remain taxed ...
Pagina 233
... appear much more shocking to us than the base vices which are generated from the rankness of servitude . Accordingly the least resistance to power appears more inexcusable in our eyes than the greatest abuses of authority . All dread of ...
... appear much more shocking to us than the base vices which are generated from the rankness of servitude . Accordingly the least resistance to power appears more inexcusable in our eyes than the greatest abuses of authority . All dread of ...
Inhoudsopgave
INTRODUCTION by Canon Peter McKevitt | 1 |
SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL BEFORE | 64 |
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES | 76 |
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