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 21
... trade , and the ease of taxes , find the ad- vantage of it . Should we be obliged , at any time , to make a war for the protection of our commerce , and to secure the ex- portation of our manufactures , would it be fair to repre- sent ...
... trade , and the ease of taxes , find the ad- vantage of it . Should we be obliged , at any time , to make a war for the protection of our commerce , and to secure the ex- portation of our manufactures , would it be fair to repre- sent ...
Pàgina 26
... trade must , till that country becomes as fully peopled as England , ( that is , for centuries to come , ) be continually increasing , and with it our naval power ; because the ocean is between us and them , and our ships and seamen ...
... trade must , till that country becomes as fully peopled as England , ( that is , for centuries to come , ) be continually increasing , and with it our naval power ; because the ocean is between us and them , and our ships and seamen ...
Pàgina 27
... trade with any manufactures for our colonies , ( not to mention Leeds , Halifax , Sheffield , and Birming- ham , ) and consider what a difference there is in the numbers of people , buildings , rents , and the value of land and of the ...
... trade with any manufactures for our colonies , ( not to mention Leeds , Halifax , Sheffield , and Birming- ham , ) and consider what a difference there is in the numbers of people , buildings , rents , and the value of land and of the ...
Pàgina 28
... trade , manufactures , or commer- cial connexions are not subject to the control of our laws , as those of our colonies certainly are in some de- gree ; I say , if these nations purchase and consume such quantities of our goods ...
... trade , manufactures , or commer- cial connexions are not subject to the control of our laws , as those of our colonies certainly are in some de- gree ; I say , if these nations purchase and consume such quantities of our goods ...
Pàgina 29
... Trade , p . xxiv . — B. V. From From New York into Lake Ontario , the land - carriage of the several portages altogether amounts to but about twenty - seven miles . Lake Ontario into Lake Erie , the land - carriage at Niagara is but ...
... Trade , p . xxiv . — B. V. From From New York into Lake Ontario , the land - carriage of the several portages altogether amounts to but about twenty - seven miles . Lake Ontario into Lake Erie , the land - carriage at Niagara is but ...
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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.