An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof, with Its Various Successes and Disappointments, on Both Sides. By the Rev. James Murray, ...T. Robson, Head of the Groat-Market, R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-noster-Row, London, N. Frobisher, York, C. Elliot, Edinburgh, and Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow, 1780 - United States - 575 pages |
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... representatives against all unconftitutional drafts on the public treasury , for fear that the governors fhould endeavour to ftrengthen their hands by tha means , without their confent . Thefe were proceed , ings which , though at first ...
... representatives against all unconftitutional drafts on the public treasury , for fear that the governors fhould endeavour to ftrengthen their hands by tha means , without their confent . Thefe were proceed , ings which , though at first ...
Page 47
... representative . In matters of general concern to the people , and especially where burdens are to be laid upon them , it is of use to confider , as well what they will be apt to think and fay ; I fhall therefore , as your excellency ...
... representative . In matters of general concern to the people , and especially where burdens are to be laid upon them , it is of use to confider , as well what they will be apt to think and fay ; I fhall therefore , as your excellency ...
Page 165
... representatives of this pro- vince the last year among the rest : if it fhould not , for want of an a- gent from this province , at the court They then repeat the prefent grievances , complain that they THE WAR IN AMERCIA . 165.
... representatives of this pro- vince the last year among the rest : if it fhould not , for want of an a- gent from this province , at the court They then repeat the prefent grievances , complain that they THE WAR IN AMERCIA . 165.
Page 393
... representatives paffed many violent refolutions . The letters were presented to the council , under the ftricteft injunctions from the reprefentatives , that the perfons who were to thew them , fhould not by any means füffer them , even ...
... representatives paffed many violent refolutions . The letters were presented to the council , under the ftricteft injunctions from the reprefentatives , that the perfons who were to thew them , fhould not by any means füffer them , even ...
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... representative body out of which all the natives should be excluded ; and perhaps it would be dangerous to truft fuch an inftrument in the hands of a people but newly taken into the British empire . " They were not yet ripe , it was ...
... representative body out of which all the natives should be excluded ; and perhaps it would be dangerous to truft fuch an inftrument in the hands of a people but newly taken into the British empire . " They were not yet ripe , it was ...
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