American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters and Other Papers which Illustrate the Foundation, the Development, the Preservation of the United States of America |
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... GENTLEMEN - Your being chosen by the freeholders and inhabitants of the Town of Boston to represent them in the General Assembly the ensuing year , affords you the strongest testimony of that confi- dence which they place in your ...
... GENTLEMEN - Your being chosen by the freeholders and inhabitants of the Town of Boston to represent them in the General Assembly the ensuing year , affords you the strongest testimony of that confi- dence which they place in your ...
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... gentleman venture to say , that William was not king of England and sovereign of these colonies , before his title was " de- clared " or " recognized " by " an act of Parliament ? " The gentleman slurs over this case . His zeal for the ...
... gentleman venture to say , that William was not king of England and sovereign of these colonies , before his title was " de- clared " or " recognized " by " an act of Parliament ? " The gentleman slurs over this case . His zeal for the ...
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... gentleman before mentioned , was an act passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1650 to ' punish " Virginia , Barbados , Antigua , and Bermudas , for their fidelity to Charles the Second . So ancient is the right of Parliament to " pun ...
... gentleman before mentioned , was an act passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1650 to ' punish " Virginia , Barbados , Antigua , and Bermudas , for their fidelity to Charles the Second . So ancient is the right of Parliament to " pun ...
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... gentleman , in his primæval state , in an advanced station conducted with the sternness of a tyrant . Opposed by a tribune of the people in taking money out of the public treasury against the laws , Caesar with an army at his heels ...
... gentleman , in his primæval state , in an advanced station conducted with the sternness of a tyrant . Opposed by a tribune of the people in taking money out of the public treasury against the laws , Caesar with an army at his heels ...
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... gentleman said the last session , that this war was made rather for the army , than the army for the war .. This government , with a standing army , can never be safe : We can- not be secure in this house ; and some of us may have our ...
... gentleman said the last session , that this war was made rather for the army , than the army for the war .. This government , with a standing army , can never be safe : We can- not be secure in this house ; and some of us may have our ...
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