The History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay: From 1749 to 1774J. Murray, 1828 - 551 pages |
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Page viii
... duty to solicit the use and perusal of those papers . Mr. Boott will do us the favour of presenting to you our application . The Society will consider itself honoured in being the repository , or me- dium of publication , of any of ...
... duty to solicit the use and perusal of those papers . Mr. Boott will do us the favour of presenting to you our application . The Society will consider itself honoured in being the repository , or me- dium of publication , of any of ...
Page xvi
... duty of your situation , joined to a dispassionate and real concern for the welfare of the people over whom you pre- side , which equally appear throughout the correspondence that I have had with you , do , at this moment , if I am not ...
... duty of your situation , joined to a dispassionate and real concern for the welfare of the people over whom you pre- side , which equally appear throughout the correspondence that I have had with you , do , at this moment , if I am not ...
Page xvii
... duty , Parliament would be as ready to shew them the indulgence of a recon- ciled and tender parent , as it is now determined to require the obedience it has a right to expect from an obstinate and refractory child . I am , Sir , Your ...
... duty , Parliament would be as ready to shew them the indulgence of a recon- ciled and tender parent , as it is now determined to require the obedience it has a right to expect from an obstinate and refractory child . I am , Sir , Your ...
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... duties , and taxes as may be just and reasonable . These were the capital parts of the plan . Previously to any debate upon it , a doubt arose , whether an act of parliament was not necessary to establish such an union . The charters ...
... duties , and taxes as may be just and reasonable . These were the capital parts of the plan . Previously to any debate upon it , a doubt arose , whether an act of parliament was not necessary to establish such an union . The charters ...
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... duty in him to order the militia to march beyond those limits , the restriction in the charter notwithstanding . The council considered the marching of the militia beyond the bounds of the province to join the other forces there , as ...
... duty in him to order the militia to march beyond those limits , the restriction in the charter notwithstanding . The council considered the marching of the militia beyond the bounds of the province to join the other forces there , as ...
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Page 401 - His Majesty taking the same into consideration was pleased with the advice of his privy Council to approve of what is therein proposed, and...
Page 81 - If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves...
Page 450 - Resolved, that the first adventurers and settlers of this, his majesty's colony and dominion, brought with them, and transmitted to their posterity and all other his majesty's subjects since inhabiting in this his majesty's said colony, all the privileges, franchises, and immunities, that have, at any time, been held, enjoyed and possessed, by the people of Great Britain.
Page 461 - NCD 2. That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were, at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural- born subjects, within the realm of England.
Page 359 - I know of no line that can be drawn between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total independence of the colonies...
Page 97 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Page 413 - The hour of destruction, or manly opposition to the machinations of Tyranny, stares you in the face. Every friend to his country, to himself and...
Page 450 - Plantations, shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.
Page 463 - That all supplies to the crown being free gifts of the people, it is unreasonable and inconsistent with the principles and spirit of the British constitution, for the people of Great Britain to gran to his majesty the property of the colonists. VII. That trial by jury is the inherent and invaluable right of every British subject in these colonies.
Page 495 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.