Life of Alexander Hamilton: A History of the Republic of the United States of America, as Traced in His Writings and in Those of His Contemporaries, 第 1 巻Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879 |
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... followed . The western limits of the colony were curtailed by settlements upon the Delaware . New Eng- land was pressing on the east , two - thirds of the island of Nassau , or Long Island , being occupied by emigrants from Connecticut ...
... followed . The western limits of the colony were curtailed by settlements upon the Delaware . New Eng- land was pressing on the east , two - thirds of the island of Nassau , or Long Island , being occupied by emigrants from Connecticut ...
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... followed . The assembly was again convened in seventeen hundred and eight . Its purpose was not changed . Their " Charter of Liberties " had provided that " no tax shall be assessed , on any pretence whatever , but by the consent of the ...
... followed . The assembly was again convened in seventeen hundred and eight . Its purpose was not changed . Their " Charter of Liberties " had provided that " no tax shall be assessed , on any pretence whatever , but by the consent of the ...
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... followed . † The population of the colony had doubled within thirty years . It now contained sixty thousand people , seven thousand of whom were slaves . A new governor sought to conciliate this thriving province , which kept up its ...
... followed . † The population of the colony had doubled within thirty years . It now contained sixty thousand people , seven thousand of whom were slaves . A new governor sought to conciliate this thriving province , which kept up its ...
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... followed , remonstrating against the " Sugar Act , " setting forth their restricted commerce , and stating the want of a paper currency , " though they had never neglected to sink their emissions ; " admitting fully the power of ...
... followed , remonstrating against the " Sugar Act , " setting forth their restricted commerce , and stating the want of a paper currency , " though they had never neglected to sink their emissions ; " admitting fully the power of ...
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... followed , establishing at Boston a Board of Com- missioners of Customs , with powers , similar to those in England , of search and seizure , to be paid , out of the revenue thus collected , stipends at the pleasure of the king . A ...
... followed , establishing at Boston a Board of Com- missioners of Customs , with powers , similar to those in England , of search and seizure , to be paid , out of the revenue thus collected , stipends at the pleasure of the king . A ...
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436 ページ - For some days past, there has been little less than a famine in camp. A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings to a general mutiny and dispersion.
116 ページ - Britain; and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies for the preservation of internal peace, virtue and good order, as well as for the defence of their lives, liberties and properties, against the hostile invasions and cruel depredations of their enemies...
117 ページ - Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York.
61 ページ - ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
60 ページ - You have been told that we are seditious, impatient of government, and desirous of independency. Be assured that these are not facts, but calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall ever esteem a union with you to be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness...
60 ページ - ... tell you, that we will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world. Place us in the same situation that we were at the close of the last war, and our former harmony will be restored.
61 ページ - But from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent, to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue, on the sublects in America,...
371 ページ - Upon so interesting a subject," observes he, " I must speak plainly. The duty I owe my country, the ardent desire I have to promote its true interests, and justice to individuals, require this of me. General Conway's merit as an officer, and his importance in this army, exist more in his own imagination than in reality. For it is a maxim with him to leave no service of his own untold, nor to want any thing which is to be obtained by importunity.
127 ページ - ... for the enemy ? They would derive great conveniences from it, on the one hand, and much property would be destroyed on the other. It is an important question, but will admit of but little time for deliberation. At present, I dare say the enemy mean to preserve it if they can. If Congress, therefore, should resolve upon the destruction of it, the resolution should be a profound secret, as the knowledge will make a capital change in their plans.
282 ページ - ... to remove and secure, for the benefit of the owners, all goods and effects, which...