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 vii
... question the insufficiency of any amount of evidence , and of all the admitted laws of probability and reasoning , to work the reformation to which I have alluded . It was , too , believed by many , that the British writers` would ...
... question the insufficiency of any amount of evidence , and of all the admitted laws of probability and reasoning , to work the reformation to which I have alluded . It was , too , believed by many , that the British writers` would ...
الصفحة x
... question with a general character of great weight and value . 2. I will pass from the instance of these Reviews to another , worthy of particular observation , on many ac- counts ; in which , also , the merest , most hacknied ribaldry ...
... question with a general character of great weight and value . 2. I will pass from the instance of these Reviews to another , worthy of particular observation , on many ac- counts ; in which , also , the merest , most hacknied ribaldry ...
الصفحة xix
... questions from his first associations , and , in his American politics , ranked with the most strenuous antagonists of the ministerial system . As the imagination of a large proportion of the British politicians has been particularly ...
... questions from his first associations , and , in his American politics , ranked with the most strenuous antagonists of the ministerial system . As the imagination of a large proportion of the British politicians has been particularly ...
الصفحة xxiii
... question the conformity of the representation in congress , with the theory of those laws and that constitution . The " case in America " admitted of application to the project of par- liamentary reform in England , only so far as it ...
... question the conformity of the representation in congress , with the theory of those laws and that constitution . The " case in America " admitted of application to the project of par- liamentary reform in England , only so far as it ...
الصفحة xxviii
... question was a British vessel , from Sunderland , in Eng- land ; she was British property , and navigated on British account ; her crew was British , and her captain an Eng- lishman , by the name of William Garterell . On arriving in ...
... question was a British vessel , from Sunderland , in Eng- land ; she was British property , and navigated on British account ; her crew was British , and her captain an Eng- lishman , by the name of William Garterell . On arriving in ...
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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...