The Eve of the RevolutionYale University Press, 1918 - 267 páginas |
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The Eve of the Revolution: A Chronicle of the Breach with England Carl Lotus Becker Vista completa - 1918 |
Términos y frases comunes
able accordingly adopted America appointed authority Britain British Constitution Briton colonial assemblies colonists committee Congress Continental Congress Court customs debate declared defense deputies disposed doubt doubtless duties effect enemies England Englishmen Exchequer fact friends George George Grenville Governor Bernard Grenville Grenville's Hancock honorable members Horace Walpole House House of Burgesses importance independence James Otis Jenyns John Adams John Dickinson King King's known letters London Lord Chatham Lord North loyal Majesty's Massachusetts matter measures ment mind ministers ministry mother country nature never non-importation agreement occasion opinion pamphlet Parlia Parliament patriots perhaps petition Philadelphia Pitt ports present privileges protection province question reason reconciliation repeal reply resolutions revenue Samuel Adams seemed Sons of Liberty Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress Sugar Act taxation thing Thomas Hutchinson thought tion town of Boston Townshend trade troops Virginia vote York
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Página 155 - Club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the Adjutant of the Boston Regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret which he takes down, and the whole club meets in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other.
Página 103 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 47 - They nourished by your indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule...
Página 75 - That his Majesty's liege people, the inhabitants of this colony, are not bound to yield obedience to any law or ordinance whatever, designed to impose any taxation whatsoever upon them, other than the laws or ordinances of the General Assembly aforesaid.
Página 243 - We have boasted the protection of Great Britain, without considering, that her motive was interest not attachment; and that she did not protect us from our enemies on our account,' but from her enemies on her own account, from those who had no quarrel with us on any other account, and who will always be our enemies on the same account.
Página 116 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Página 112 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Página 47 - ... on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty...
Página 111 - If we can avail ourselves of these taxes on no other condition, I shall never look upon it as a measure of frugality, being perfectly satisfied that in the end, it will be much cheaper for us to pay their army than their orators.
Página 244 - ... any submission to, or dependence on, Great Britain, tends directly to involve this Continent in European wars and quarrels, and set us at variance with nations who would otherwise seek our friendship, and against whom we have neither anger nor complaint.
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The Great Separation: The Story of the Boston Tea Party and the Beginning of ... Donald Barr Chidsey Vista de fragmentos - 1965 |