Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Sons, 1961 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina 78
... situation ; —a situation which I will not miscall , which I dare not name , which I scarcely know how to comprehend in the terms of any description . In this posture , Sir , things stood at the beginning of the session . About that time ...
... situation ; —a situation which I will not miscall , which I dare not name , which I scarcely know how to comprehend in the terms of any description . In this posture , Sir , things stood at the beginning of the session . About that time ...
Pagina 106
... situation , let us seriously and coolly ponder . What is it we have got by all our menaces , which have been many and ferocious ? What advantage have we derived from the penal laws we have passed , and which for the time have been ...
... situation , let us seriously and coolly ponder . What is it we have got by all our menaces , which have been many and ferocious ? What advantage have we derived from the penal laws we have passed , and which for the time have been ...
Pagina 161
... situation into which the British empire has been brought , and the conduct to which we are reluctantly driven in that situation , we hold ourselves bound by the relation in which we stand both to the Crown and the people clearly to ...
... situation into which the British empire has been brought , and the conduct to which we are reluctantly driven in that situation , we hold ourselves bound by the relation in which we stand both to the Crown and the people clearly to ...
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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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