 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 794 strani
...impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatsoever, other than the General...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." Had lightning from the clouds fallen in the midst of that Assembly, they could not have been more startled.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 strani
...confirmed this right in the colony: and, as a result from all this, his famous fifth resolution : " Resolved, therefore, that the general assembly of...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." The resolutions were hastily written by Henry upon the blank leaf of an old copy of Coke upon Littleton,... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 strani
...tone those celebrated resolutions against the Stamp Act which set America in a flame : — ' Kesolved, therefore, that the General Assembly of this colony...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.' * It was with this declaration of principles that Patrick Henry's resolutions concluded. His speech... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1863 - 554 strani
...passed, after vehement debate : the concluding section, which read as follows, by a majority of one only: "Resolved, therefore, that the General Assembly of...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." This resolution was afterwards struck out upon a reconsideration, during the absence of Henry, but... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1874 - 706 strani
...Assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants cf this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such...than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tend ency to destroy British as well as American freedom. These resolutions were moved by Mr. Henry... | |
 | 1872 - 794 strani
...seem to us ! " Every attempt to invest sucli power (of taxation) in any person or persons whatever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British and American freedom." Ravishing words to the Whig members from Albemarle and the other western counties.... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - 1875 - 522 strani
...inhabitants of this colony and that any attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whosoever othe- than the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." i The cringing sycophants of a corrupt and corrupting ministry could not-rfare not deny the correctness... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 strani
...seem to us ! " Every attempt to invest such power [of taxation] in any person or persons whatever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British and American freedom." When the reading was finished, Jefferson heard his friend utter the opening... | |
 | Committee on National Centennial Commemoration - 1876 - 110 strani
...never been forfeited or in any other way given up, but hath been constantly recognized by the kings and people of Great. Britain. " Resolved therefore,...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." The author of these resolutions, which rent an empire, left a copy in his own handwriting, which I... | |
 | William Cathcart - 1876 - 138 strani
...Assembly of this Colony has the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon its inhabitants, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." After the amendment of the fourth resolution, the first four were passed by small majorities. But the... | |
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Resolved, therefore, That the general assembly of this colony have the sole right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the... 
