The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volum 4Whittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1856 |
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Pàgina 8
... tion , it is certain , that they have been using their utmost endeavours to excite the Indians to new acts of hostility against his Majesty's colony of the Massachusetts Bay ; and some have been committed . The French not only excite ...
... tion , it is certain , that they have been using their utmost endeavours to excite the Indians to new acts of hostility against his Majesty's colony of the Massachusetts Bay ; and some have been committed . The French not only excite ...
Pàgina 21
... tion , " & c . It will not be a conquest for them , nor gratify any vain ambition of theirs . It will be a con- quest for the whole ; and all our people will , in the increase of trade , and the ease of taxes , find the ad- vantage of ...
... tion , " & c . It will not be a conquest for them , nor gratify any vain ambition of theirs . It will be a con- quest for the whole ; and all our people will , in the increase of trade , and the ease of taxes , find the ad- vantage of ...
Pàgina 43
... tion of government . It might , and probably would , have ruined the country ; but would never have pro- duced an independent sovereignty . In fact , neither the very worst of governments , the worst of politics in the last century ...
... tion of government . It might , and probably would , have ruined the country ; but would never have pro- duced an independent sovereignty . In fact , neither the very worst of governments , the worst of politics in the last century ...
Pàgina 50
... tion would be , who should take our manufactures and supply us with sugar , and put us to no great expense in defending the place of growth . But , though our own colonies expend among us al- 50 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
... tion would be , who should take our manufactures and supply us with sugar , and put us to no great expense in defending the place of growth . But , though our own colonies expend among us al- 50 FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS .
Pàgina 51
... tion of their children and support of themselves ; or else be laid up there , where they will always think their home to be . Besides this consumption of British manufactures , much is said of the benefit we shall have from the sit ...
... tion of their children and support of themselves ; or else be laid up there , where they will always think their home to be . Besides this consumption of British manufactures , much is said of the benefit we shall have from the sit ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 48 - Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Pàgina 393 - Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Pàgina 339 - Company; as also all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the west and northwest...
Pàgina 378 - And we do further strictly enjoin and require all persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any lands within the countries above described, or upon any other lands, which not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements.
Pàgina 475 - The house have humbly represented to the ministry their own sentiments ; that his majesty's high court of parliament is the supreme legislative, power over the whole empire : that in all free states the constitution is fixed : and, as the supreme legislative derives its power and authority from the constitution, it cannot overleap the bounds of it, without destroying its...
Pàgina 377 - ... we do therefore, with the advice of our privy council, declare it to be our royal will and pleasure, that no governor, or commander in chief, in any of our colonies of Quebec, east Florida, or west Florida, do presume, upon any pretence whatever, to grant warrants of survey, or pass any patents for lands beyond the bounds of their respective governments, as described in their commissions...
Pàgina 266 - In this assurance my mind most perfectly acquiesces, and I confess I feel not the least alarm from the discontents which are to arise from putting people at their ease ; nor do I apprehend the destruction of this empire from giving, by an act of free grace and indulgence, to two millions of my fellowcitizens, some share of those rights upon which I have always been taught to value myself.
Pàgina 376 - England; for which purpose we have given power under our great seal to the governors of our said colonies respectively, to erect and constitute, with the advice of our said councils respectively, courts of judicature and public justice within our said colonies, for the hearing and determining all causes, as well criminal as civil, according to law and equity, and, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England...
Pàgina 169 - The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and paid, in all their courts, obedience to acts of parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink and paper.
Pàgina 162 - Fuller; their seventh and last resolution setting forth, that it was their opinion that the House be moved, that leave be given to bring in a bill to repeal the Stamp Act.