John Adams, the Statesman of the American Revolution: An Address Before the Webster Historical Society, at Its Annual Meeting in Boston, Jan. 18, 1884Society, 1884 - 85 ページ |
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... brought it on , and , with great exactness , the questions which divided them in their inception , progress and urgency , at the time when he en- gaged in public affairs ; and especially so in his case , since , to a profound knowledge ...
... brought it on , and , with great exactness , the questions which divided them in their inception , progress and urgency , at the time when he en- gaged in public affairs ; and especially so in his case , since , to a profound knowledge ...
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... brought the matter to the attention of the home government ; and Yorke , afterwards Lord Hardwicke , then Attorney General , and the Solicitor General , gave as their official opinion : 1 . That synods cannot lawfully be held without ...
... brought the matter to the attention of the home government ; and Yorke , afterwards Lord Hardwicke , then Attorney General , and the Solicitor General , gave as their official opinion : 1 . That synods cannot lawfully be held without ...
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... brought together on the common ground of hostility to Episcopacy , which was so considerable a cause of the Revo- lution . There were Puritans in Virginia , though but a handful , who , in the early days of the colony , had established ...
... brought together on the common ground of hostility to Episcopacy , which was so considerable a cause of the Revo- lution . There were Puritans in Virginia , though but a handful , who , in the early days of the colony , had established ...
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... brought about the independence of the United States would have been taken away . But such proved not to be the will of the Privy Council of King William . ” Hist . New Eng . iv . 139. This statement is misleading . It is quite true that ...
... brought about the independence of the United States would have been taken away . But such proved not to be the will of the Privy Council of King William . ” Hist . New Eng . iv . 139. This statement is misleading . It is quite true that ...
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... brought them shoulder to shoulder - the Revolution , though difficult , was not impossible . — It was this difficulty which John Adams encountered and overcame at the head of the national party which he , more than any other man ...
... brought them shoulder to shoulder - the Revolution , though difficult , was not impossible . — It was this difficulty which John Adams encountered and overcame at the head of the national party which he , more than any other man ...
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80 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 subjects, in America,...
80 ページ - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is, a right in the People to participate in their legislative council...
79 ページ - To these grievous acts and measures Americans cannot submit; but in hopes their fellow subjects in Great Britain will, on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have, for the present, only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures.
82 ページ - We are between hawk and buzzard. We ought to have had in our hands a month ago the whole legislative, executive and judicial of the whole continent...
36 ページ - If the Church of England had been the established and general religion in all the northern colonies as it has been among us here, and uninterrupted tranquility had prevailed throughout the continent, it is clear to me that slavery and subjection might and would have been gradually insinuated among us.
5 ページ - He recalled a couplet that had been inscribed or rather drilled, into a rock on the shore of Monument Bay in our old colony of Plymouth: " 'The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends.
60 ページ - Adams, I believe, has the most thorough understanding of liberty and her resources in the temper and character of the people, though not in the law and Constitution; as well as the most habitual, radical love of it of any of them, as well as the most correct, genteel, and artful pen.
41 ページ - no aid, tax, tallage, assessment, custom, loan, benevolence, or imposition whatsoever, shall be laid, assessed, imposed, or levied on any of their majesties' subjects, or their estates, on any color or pretence whatsoever, but by the act and consent of the governor, council, and representatives of the people assembled in general court.
21 ページ - Rome, with indifference, who will believe that the apprehension of Episcopacy contributed fifty years ago, as much as any other cause, to arouse the attention, not only of the inquiring mind, but of the common people, and urge them to close thinking on the constitutional authority of parliament over the colonies?
25 ページ - We hope in God such an establishment will never take place in America ; and we desire you would strenuously oppose it. The revenue raised in America, for aught we can tell, may be as constitutionally applied towards the support of prelacy as of soldiers and pensioners...