Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe: Illustrative of Their Characters, and of the Events of the American Revolution, Tom 1H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1825 |
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... necessary . Two parties divided the House of Burgesses . These were strongly marked ; and the spirit of their politics was widely different . Although they could not be correctly called " whig and tory , " they might be termed aristo ...
... necessary . Two parties divided the House of Burgesses . These were strongly marked ; and the spirit of their politics was widely different . Although they could not be correctly called " whig and tory , " they might be termed aristo ...
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... necessary , that a revenue should be raised there . " Then come the technical words of giving and granting , ' and thus a complete American revenue act was made , in all the forms , and with a full avowal of the equity , policy , and ...
... necessary , that a revenue should be raised there . " Then come the technical words of giving and granting , ' and thus a complete American revenue act was made , in all the forms , and with a full avowal of the equity , policy , and ...
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... necessary supplies of government from such sources only * Mr. Lee , by the persuasion of some of his friends , had been induced , on the first mention of the stamp act , to apply for a col- lector's office . He , however , quickly ...
... necessary supplies of government from such sources only * Mr. Lee , by the persuasion of some of his friends , had been induced , on the first mention of the stamp act , to apply for a col- lector's office . He , however , quickly ...
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... necessary , to publish a candid account of the motives which induced him , to make such applica- tion , and afterwards to decline the appointment , even before the final passage of the act . The statement of the whole transaction ...
... necessary , to publish a candid account of the motives which induced him , to make such applica- tion , and afterwards to decline the appointment , even before the final passage of the act . The statement of the whole transaction ...
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... necessary , as I conceived that my actions would be the strongest proofs of the rectitude of my intentions . That such was the conduct held by me in public , I desire not to be credited on my bare assertion , but with confidence I ...
... necessary , as I conceived that my actions would be the strongest proofs of the rectitude of my intentions . That such was the conduct held by me in public , I desire not to be credited on my bare assertion , but with confidence I ...
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Strona 277 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strona 277 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
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Strona 277 - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us . For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states ; For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world...
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