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Page 37
... reasons for ftopping fhort at the preceding year . It would have appeared , had he proceeded farther , that our tonnage was in a courfe of uniform augmentation , owing to the freight derived from our foreign conquefts , and to the ...
... reasons for ftopping fhort at the preceding year . It would have appeared , had he proceeded farther , that our tonnage was in a courfe of uniform augmentation , owing to the freight derived from our foreign conquefts , and to the ...
Page 42
... reason , the giving up the moft valuable of all poffeffions , in hopes to conquer them back , under any advantage of fituation , is the moft ridiculous fecurity that ever was imagined for the peace of a nation . It is true his friends ...
... reason , the giving up the moft valuable of all poffeffions , in hopes to conquer them back , under any advantage of fituation , is the moft ridiculous fecurity that ever was imagined for the peace of a nation . It is true his friends ...
Page 74
... reason for the over - entry of British goods ; and they reftore to us that balance of four millions , which the au- thor has thought proper on fuch a very poor and limited comprehenfion of the object to reduce to £ .2,500,000 . In ...
... reason for the over - entry of British goods ; and they reftore to us that balance of four millions , which the au- thor has thought proper on fuch a very poor and limited comprehenfion of the object to reduce to £ .2,500,000 . In ...
Page 98
... reason , stated no fort of neceffity , for this ad- ditional allowance , either in the one article or the other . What is still stronger , he admits that his allowance for the army and ordnance extras is too great , and exprefsly refers ...
... reason , stated no fort of neceffity , for this ad- ditional allowance , either in the one article or the other . What is still stronger , he admits that his allowance for the army and ordnance extras is too great , and exprefsly refers ...
Page 113
... reason , than likely to be opposed by the most powerful and moft violent of all local prejudices and popular paffions . First , a fire is already kindled by his schemes of taxation in America ; he then proposes one which will fet all ...
... reason , than likely to be opposed by the most powerful and moft violent of all local prejudices and popular paffions . First , a fire is already kindled by his schemes of taxation in America ; he then proposes one which will fet all ...
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Page 333 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Page 286 - ... of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature with their constituents, than that they should in all cases be wholly untouched by the opinions and feelings of the people out of doors.
Page 418 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 388 - But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted.
Page 433 - I look, I say, on the imperial rights of Great Britain, and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights, to be just the most reconcilable things in the world.
Page 422 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Page 433 - Reflect how you are to govern a people, who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue ; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience...
Page 397 - ... and at the head of the treasury department. It was indeed in a situation of little rank and no consequence, suitable to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions. But a situation near enough to enable me to see, as well as others, what was going on ; and I did see in...
Page 334 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow It is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Page 363 - Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear.