 | Abiel Holmes - 1813 - 478 strani
...power of levying taxes, "throughout this extensive government," was considered by that Assembly as "a very Extraordinary thing, and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen ;"• and, it was remarked, "any great innovations or breach of the original charters or constitutions"... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 650 strani
...power of levying taxes, " throughout this extensive government," was considered by that assembly as " a very extraordinary thing, and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen ; " and, it was remarked, " any great innovations or breach of the original charters or constitutions... | |
 | 1846 - 302 strani
...President-General and Council to lay and levy taxes, &c. as they please, throughout this extensive government, is a very extraordinary thing, and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen, which is esteemed, and highly prized by the people of these colonies, who have now a due sense of their... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1887 - 800 strani
...President-General and Council to levy taxes, &c., as they please, throughout this extensive government, is a very extraordinary thing, and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen." Their objections to Franklin's Plan read like an answer of the Massachusetts General Court, drawn by... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - 1911 - 104 strani
...send commissioners to meet those from other colonies, they "immediately made Resolve against it."86 It is well known that none of the colonies accepted...privileges" and "greatly discourage and dishearten his Majesty's good subjects." If the President-General were given power to appoint military officers, they... | |
 | Charles McLean Andrews - 1912 - 268 strani
...Massachusetts had been given adequate powers. By them it was unanimously rejected, Connecticut deeming it "a very extraordinary thing and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen." Governor Shirley afterward wrote that the commissioners had no hope that the recommendation would have... | |
 | Connecticut Historical Society - 1918 - 474 strani
...President-General and Council to lay and levy taxes, &c. as they please, throughout this extensive government, is a very extraordinary thing, and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen, which is esteemed, and highly prized by the people of these colonies, who have now a due sense of their... | |
 | Charles Strachan Sanders Higham - 1921 - 292 strani
...Conference, the colonial assemblies would have nothing to do with the plan. Connecticut declared that it was " a very extraordinary thing, and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen," while 'Governor Shirley of Virginia thought "their different constitutions, situations, circumstances,... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - 1923 - 520 strani
...against the levying of taxes by the proposed central colonial government which it considered to be "a very extraordinary thing, and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen." l Franklin, in three private letters to Shirley in regard to a plan of union proposed by the latter,... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - 1923 - 516 strani
...against the levying of taxes by the proposed central colonial government which it considered to be "a very extraordinary thing, and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen." 1 Franklin, in three private letters to Shirley in regard to a plan of union proposed by the latter,... | |
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The proposal, in said plan contained, for the President-General and Council to lay and levy taxes, &c. as they please, throughout this extensive government, is a very extraordinary thing, and against the rights and privileges of Englishmen... 
