An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America: Part First, Containing an Historical Outline of Their Merits and Wrongs as Colonies, and Strictures Upon the Calumnies of the British WritersMitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - 512 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة iii
... in commercial dealings , have put you in possession of an ample estate , to which you daily vindicate your title by a noble use of it in the offices of beneficence and friendship . 117244 I have another object in addressing you thus in my.
... in commercial dealings , have put you in possession of an ample estate , to which you daily vindicate your title by a noble use of it in the offices of beneficence and friendship . 117244 I have another object in addressing you thus in my.
الصفحة iv
... object in addressing you thus in my ca- pacity of author . It is , to witness , -in opposition to the false relations of the British travellers , that the native American is not backward in recognizing and honouring the estimable ...
... object in addressing you thus in my ca- pacity of author . It is , to witness , -in opposition to the false relations of the British travellers , that the native American is not backward in recognizing and honouring the estimable ...
الصفحة vi
... object required , indeed , nothing more . I have to apologize rather for the bulk of the volume , which exceeds my own expectation ; and is owing to the impression under which I proceeded , that the quota- tions , instructive in ...
... object required , indeed , nothing more . I have to apologize rather for the bulk of the volume , which exceeds my own expectation ; and is owing to the impression under which I proceeded , that the quota- tions , instructive in ...
الصفحة xix
... object , and was therefore to be invalidated , not merely by being shown to have no application to the circumstances of Great Britain , but by being exhibited as of a most malig- nant and revolting character in itself . To this design I ...
... object , and was therefore to be invalidated , not merely by being shown to have no application to the circumstances of Great Britain , but by being exhibited as of a most malig- nant and revolting character in itself . To this design I ...
الصفحة xxxiii
... object of the petition , the honourable Mr. Grey said , that " the evils of the American war were , in his mind , entirely owing to the unequal and corrupt representation in Parliament . " And Mr. Sheridan made the following ...
... object of the petition , the honourable Mr. Grey said , that " the evils of the American war were , in his mind , entirely owing to the unequal and corrupt representation in Parliament . " And Mr. Sheridan made the following ...
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الصفحة 403 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
الصفحة 403 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is t6 them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
الصفحة 151 - For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
الصفحة 214 - Miss Seward, looking to him with mild but steady astonishment, said, " Sir, this is an instance that we are always most violent against those whom we have injured.
الصفحة 76 - Nothing in the history of mankind is like their progress. For my part, I never cast an eye on their flourishing commerce and their cultivated and commodious life, but they seem to me rather ancient nations grown to perfection through a long series of fortunate events and a train of successful industry, accumulating wealth in many centuries, than the colonies of yesterday...
الصفحة 249 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
الصفحة ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
الصفحة 5 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
الصفحة 436 - Catholic was, under the same act, to forfeit his estate to his nearest Protestant relation, until, through a profession of what he did not believe, he redeemed by his hypocrisy, what the law had transferred to the kinsman as the recompense of his profligacy.
الصفحة 430 - That our royal will and pleasure is, that no person within the said colony, at any time hereafter, shall be any wise molested, punished, disquieted, or called in question, for any differences in opinion in matters of religion...