Life of William, Earl of Shelburne, Afterwards First Marguess of Lansdowne: 1737-1766Macmillan and Company, 1875 |
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Stran 320 - They nourished up 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 them,!
Stran 252 - ... issued and disposed of by warrant under the hand of the governor of this commonwealth, for the time being with the advice and consent of the council...
Stran 384 - The Stamp Act says, we shall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchase, nor grant, nor recover debts; we shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless we pay such and such sums; and thus it is intended to extort our money from us, or ruin us by the consequences of refusing to pay it.
Stran 321 - ... their constant and laborious industry for the defence of a country whose frontier was drenched in blood, while its interior parts yielded all its little savings to your emolument.
Stran 248 - In what mode, least burdensome and most palatable to the colonies, can they contribute towards the support of the additional expense which must attend this civil and military establishment, upon the arrangement which your lordships shall propose?
Stran 321 - ... on many occasions has caused the blood of those SONS OF LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest...
Stran 320 - They planted by your care! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny, to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable, and, among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Stran 320 - ... to recoil within them — men promoted to the highest seats of justice — some who to my knowledge were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a court of justice, in their own.
Stran 49 - II. there were three parties : first, the old Whigs, who entirely composed the administration ; secondly, the discontented Whigs, who one after another quarrelled with Sir Robert Walpole and the main body ; thirdly, the Tories, to whose character and principles sufficient justice has not been done, owing to the never-ceasing outcry of ministers in confounding them with the Jacobites. But in fact they were the landed interest of England, who desired to see...
Stran ix - Junius has never yet been publicly named. None of the parties ever guessed at as Junius was the true Junius. Nobody has ever suspected him. I knew him ; and knew all about it, and I pledge myself, if these legs will permit me, to give you a pamphlet on the subject, as soon as I feel myself equal to the labour.