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, Volum 4T. MacCoun, 1882 |
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Pàgina 46 - And Pharaoh said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; 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 BO
Pàgina 259 - the command and disposition of the militia, and of all forces by sea and land, and of all forts and places of strength, is, and by the laws of England ever was, the undoubted right of his Majesty, and his royal predecessors, kings and queens of England, within all his Majesty's realms and dominions
Pàgina 254 - or limiting the general powers and authority of the crown, and the exercise of jurisdiction thereof; all statutes declaratory of the rights and liberty of the subject ; do extend to all British subjects in the colonies and plantations as of common right, and as if they and every of them were born within the realm.
Pàgina 455 - Our subordinate legislatures are in effect rendered useless by the late acts of Parliament, imposing duties and taxes on these colonies, and extending the jurisdiction of the Courts of Admiralty beyond its ancient limits; statutes by which your Majesty's Commons in Great Britain undertake absolutely to dispose of the property of their
Pàgina 359 - their hunting grounds ; 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
Pàgina 455 - themselves, to endeavour, by a loyal and dutiful address to his Majesty, and humble applications to both Houses of Parliament, to procure the repeal of the act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, of all clauses of any other act of Parliament whereby the jurisdiction of the Admiralty is extended,
Pàgina 460 - That it is an essential unalterable right in nature, ingrafted into the British constitution as a fundamental law, and ever held sacred and irrevocable by the subjects within the realm, that what a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but which cannot be taken from him without his consent. That the American subjects
Pàgina 108 - Cruel parsimony ! to refuse the charity of a little understanding, when God had given you so much, and the assembly begged it as an alms. O, that you had but for once remembered and observed the counsel of that wise poet, Pope, where he says, " Be niggards of advice on no pretence; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Pàgina 162 - Suppose a military force sent into America, they will find nobody in arms ; what are they then to do ? They cannot force a man to take stamps who chooses to do without them. They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one. Q. If the act is not repealed, what do you think will be the consequences?
Pàgina 452 - His Majesty, being sensible of the zeal and vigor with which his faithful subjects in North America have exerted themselves in defence of his Majesty's just rights and possessions, recommends it to this House, to take the same into consideration, and to enable his Majesty to give them a proper compensation for the