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A Critical Enquiry Regarding the Real Author of the Letters of Junius ... - Page 303
by George Coventry (of Wandsworth.) - 1825 - 382 pages
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History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the ..., Volume 3

George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 524 pages
...and riotous rabble, who ought, if they had the least prudence, to follow their mercantile employment, and not trouble themselves with politics and government, which they do not understand. Some gentlemen say : ' Oh, don't break their charter ; don't take away rights granted them by the predecessors...
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The Story of Boston: A Study of Independency

Arthur Gilman - Boston (Mass.) - 1889 - 538 pages
...follow their occupations as merchants, and not consider themselves as ministers of that country. . . . The whole are the proceedings of a tumultuous and...politics and government, which they do not understand." Lord North considered these sentiments " worthy of a great mind," and the fact shows how little the...
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The American Revolution: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

John Fiske - United States - 1891 - 400 pages
...is what comes of their wretched old town meetings. The Americans have really no government. These " are the proceedings of a tumultuous and riotous rabble,...politics and government, which they do not understand. Some gentlemen say, ' Oh, don't break their charter ; don't take away rights granted them by the predecessors...
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The American Revolution, Volume 1

John Fiske - United States - 1891 - 406 pages
...is what comes of their wretched old town meetings. The Americans have really no government. These " are the proceedings of a tumultuous and riotous rabble,...politics and government, which they do not understand. Some gentlemen say, ' Oh, don,t break their charter ; don,t take away rights granted them by the predecessors...
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The American Revolution, Volume 1

John Fiske - United States - 1891 - 398 pages
...is what comes of their wretched old town meetings. The Americans have really no government. These " are the proceedings of a tumultuous and riotous rabble,...politics and government, which they do not understand. Some gentlemen say, ' Oh, don't break their charter ; don't take away rights granted them by the predecessors...
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History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the ..., Volume 3

George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 522 pages
...and riotous rabble, who ought, if they had the least prudence, to follow their mercantile employment, and not trouble themselves with politics and government, which they do not understand. Some gentlemen say: 'Oh, don't break their charter ; don't take away rights granted them by the predecessors...
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The Historical Writings of John Fiske: Illustrated with Many Photogravures ...

John Fiske - United States - 1902 - 456 pages
...Germain, is what comes of their wretched old town meetings. The Americans have really no government. These "are the proceedings of a tumultuous and riotous rabble,...politics and government, which they do not understand. Some gentlemen say, ' Oh, don't break their charter ; don't take away rights granted them by the predecessors...
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History of the United States

Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1921 - 716 pages
...resolute part, they will undoubtedly be very meek." Lord George Germain characterized the tea party as " the proceedings of a tumultuous and riotous rabble...politics and government, which they do not understand." This expressed, in concise form, exactly the sentiments of Lord North, who had then for three years...
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The War for American Independence: From 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in ...

Samuel B. Griffith - History - 2002 - 780 pages
...and riotous rabble, who ought, if they had the least prudence, to follow their mercantile employment and not trouble themselves with politics and government, which they do not understand." The popularly elected assembly was "a downright clog" upon all the proceedings of government; the existing...
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Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works

Frank M. Bryan - Political Science - 2010 - 333 pages
...and riotous rabble, who ought, if they had the least produce, to follow their mercantile employment and not trouble themselves with politics and government, which they do not understand. Lord Germain (appointed by the king to be secretary of state to the colonies) when hearing of the Boston...
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