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 Writers |
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... report goes , she is a drunkard , often a pugilist ; sometimes even a thief . Nor is it easy to say whether the tenor of their manners is more to be admired for simplicity or elegance : a negro wench , as we are told , waits on her ...
... report goes , she is a drunkard , often a pugilist ; sometimes even a thief . Nor is it easy to say whether the tenor of their manners is more to be admired for simplicity or elegance : a negro wench , as we are told , waits on her ...
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... report of the British army . Would their lordships say that upon information received from an enemy the commander of a fortress was bound to surren- der , or even to discontinue hostilities , and that he was liable to the punishment of ...
... report of the British army . Would their lordships say that upon information received from an enemy the commander of a fortress was bound to surren- der , or even to discontinue hostilities , and that he was liable to the punishment of ...
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... report they were to depend , for the spirit of the country , and the inducements it might hold out to them . The gentleman's name is Fearon . He has published the report which he made to these persons , and his book is full of the most ...
... report they were to depend , for the spirit of the country , and the inducements it might hold out to them . The gentleman's name is Fearon . He has published the report which he made to these persons , and his book is full of the most ...
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... Reports . Whoever talks of a degree of bribery and corruption , and undue influence in America , like that of the neighbour- hood of the treasury of London , and the theatres of English suffrage , whether the shires or boroughs , deals ...
... Reports . Whoever talks of a degree of bribery and corruption , and undue influence in America , like that of the neighbour- hood of the treasury of London , and the theatres of English suffrage , whether the shires or boroughs , deals ...
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... report from Philadelphia , dated October 12 , 1817 , he writes thus : - " Seeing the following advertisement in the newspapers , put in by the captain and owners of the vessel referred to , I visited the ship , in company with a ...
... report from Philadelphia , dated October 12 , 1817 , he writes thus : - " Seeing the following advertisement in the newspapers , put in by the captain and owners of the vessel referred to , I visited the ship , in company with a ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 249 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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...