Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, Svazek 1F. Carr, and Company, 1829 |
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Strana 23
... Suppose , by an ex- traordinary operation of nature or of law , one half the laborers of a state could in the course of one night be transformed into slaves : would the state be made the poorer or the less able to pay taxes ? That the ...
... Suppose , by an ex- traordinary operation of nature or of law , one half the laborers of a state could in the course of one night be transformed into slaves : would the state be made the poorer or the less able to pay taxes ? That the ...
Strana 43
... suppose of eighty millions , would require twelve figures , to wit , 115,200 , - 000,000 Units . Such a system of money - arithmetic would be entirely unmanageable for the common purposes of society . I pro - s posed , therefore ...
... suppose of eighty millions , would require twelve figures , to wit , 115,200 , - 000,000 Units . Such a system of money - arithmetic would be entirely unmanageable for the common purposes of society . I pro - s posed , therefore ...
Strana 94
... suppose me to have claimed it for Virginia ; but certainly I have never made such a claim . The idea , I suppose , has been taken up from what is said in Wirt's history of Mr. Henry , page 87 , and from an inexact attention to its ...
... suppose me to have claimed it for Virginia ; but certainly I have never made such a claim . The idea , I suppose , has been taken up from what is said in Wirt's history of Mr. Henry , page 87 , and from an inexact attention to its ...
Strana 95
... suppose , therefore , that these resolutions were not received , as you think , while the House of Burgesses was in session in March , 1773 , but a few days after we rose , and were probably what was sent by the messenger , who crossed ...
... suppose , therefore , that these resolutions were not received , as you think , while the House of Burgesses was in session in March , 1773 , but a few days after we rose , and were probably what was sent by the messenger , who crossed ...
Strana 111
... suppose the question of right suspended , in order to examine this act on principles of justice . An act of Parliament had been passed , imposing duties on teas , to be paid in America , against which act the Americans had protested ...
... suppose the question of right suspended , in order to examine this act on principles of justice . An act of Parliament had been passed , imposing duties on teas , to be paid in America , against which act the Americans had protested ...
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Strana 15 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 13 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Strana 34 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Strana 15 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Strana 86 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.
Strana 15 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 403 - If War should arise between the two Contracting Parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Strana 15 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms : our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injuries. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [ ] people [who mean to *
Strana viii - It was my great good fortune, and what probably fixed the destinies of my life, that Dr. William Small of Scotland was then Professor of Mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind.
Strana 404 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.