A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3D. Appleton, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... commercial laws Opinion in America Governor Bernard 333 • 334 • 336 · 339 341 • 343 · 344 346 New York refuses to obey the Mutiny Act . The Farmer's Letters ' . 348 The Chatham Ministry . PAGE Irritation in England against America.
... commercial laws Opinion in America Governor Bernard 333 • 334 • 336 · 339 341 • 343 · 344 346 New York refuses to obey the Mutiny Act . The Farmer's Letters ' . 348 The Chatham Ministry . PAGE Irritation in England against America.
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... Governor of Massachusetts . Quartering Act . 399 The Quebec Act 399 The other colonies support Boston 403 Numerous riots 405 Proclamation of Gage 407 The Congress at Philadelphia ( September 1774 ) 408 General arming . How far Americans ...
... Governor of Massachusetts . Quartering Act . 399 The Quebec Act 399 The other colonies support Boston 403 Numerous riots 405 Proclamation of Gage 407 The Congress at Philadelphia ( September 1774 ) 408 General arming . How far Americans ...
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... governors , described him as a boy of respectable abilities , but great constitutional indolence ; scrupulous , dutiful , ignorant of evil , and sincerely pious , but neither generous nor frank ; harsh in his judgments of others , with ...
... governors , described him as a boy of respectable abilities , but great constitutional indolence ; scrupulous , dutiful , ignorant of evil , and sincerely pious , but neither generous nor frank ; harsh in his judgments of others , with ...
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... Governor - Generalship of Canada , without the obliga- tion of residence and with a salary of 5,000l . a year ; but he accepted the title of Baroness of Chatham for his wife , and a pen- sion of 3,000l . a year for three lives , for ...
... Governor - Generalship of Canada , without the obliga- tion of residence and with a salary of 5,000l . a year ; but he accepted the title of Baroness of Chatham for his wife , and a pen- sion of 3,000l . a year for three lives , for ...
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... Governor of Stirling Castle ; and from this time Shelburne severed himself from Bute and attached himself to what seemed to be the rising fortunes of Pitt . ' The junction of Bedford had , however , given some strength to the ministry ...
... Governor of Stirling Castle ; and from this time Shelburne severed himself from Bute and attached himself to what seemed to be the rising fortunes of Pitt . ' The junction of Bedford had , however , given some strength to the ministry ...
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Page 338 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 337 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Page 203 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 393 - I can take upon me to assure you, notwithstanding insinuations to the contrary from men with factious and seditious views, that his Majesty's present administration have at no time entertained a design to propose to Parliament to lay any further taxes upon America for the purpose of raising a revenue...