The American Metropolis: From Knickerbocker Days to the Present Time; New York City Life in All Its Various Phases, Volume 2P.F. Collier, 1897 |
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Pagina 44 - ... every man who prefers freedom to a life of slavery will bless and honor you as men who have baffled the attempt of tyranny, and, by an impartial and uncorrupt verdict, have laid a noble foundation for securing to ourselves, our posterity, and our neighbors that to which nature and the laws of our country have given us a right — the liberty both of exposing and opposing arbitrary power (in these parts of the world, at least) by speaking and writing truth.
Pagina 43 - British government on the main of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty ; and I make no doubt...
Pagina 72 - An Act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, etc., by imposing taxes on the inhabitants of these colonies ; and the said Act, and several other Acts, by extending the jurisdiction of the courts of Admiralty beyond its ancient limits, have a manifest tendency to subvert the rights and liberties of the colonists.
Pagina 72 - That the only representatives of the people of these colonies are persons chosen therein by themselves, and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them, but by their respective legislatures.
Pagina 322 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Pagina 33 - Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest : for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
Pagina 73 - That it is the Right of the British Subjects in these Colonies, to Petition the King, or either House of Parliament. Lastly, That it is the indispensable Duty of these Colonies...
Pagina 43 - And you see I labor under the weight of many years and am borne down with great infirmities of body; yet old and weak as I am, 1 should think it my duty, if required, to go to the utmost part of the land, where my service could be of any use in assisting to quench the flame of prosecutions upon informations...
Pagina 71 - That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the crown of Great Britain, that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body the parliament of Great-Britain.
Pagina 72 - That all supplies to the crown being free gifts of the people, it is unreasonable and inconsistent with the principles and spirit of the British constitution, for the people of Great Britain to grant to his Majesty the property of the colonists. VII. That trial by jury, is the inherent and invaluable right of every British subject in these colonies.