 | Egerton Ryerson - American Confederate voluntary exiles - 1880 - 556 pages
...and imposition! upon the inhabitants of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever other than the General...tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." (Prior Documents, etc., pp. 6, 7.) These resolutions were introduced by Patrick Henry, in an eloquent... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - United States - 1880 - 434 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." Delegates from nine colonies met at New York in October, 1765, and prepared a Declaration of Rights... | |
 | Robert Templeman Craighill - Virginia - 1880 - 378 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." After Mr. Henry's death, the above resolutions were found among his papers, in his own hand-writing,... | |
 | Education - 1885 - 724 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." The full text of the five resolutions is given in Wirt's "Life of Patrick Henry," pp. 74, 75. Bryant's... | |
 | Education - 1885 - 686 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." The full text of the five resolutions is given in Wirt's "Life of Patrick Henry," pp. 74, 75. Bryant's... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1886 - 536 pages
...vest such power in any other person or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British, as well as American, freedom." Notwithstanding the strong opposition made to these resolutions they were actually passed, and became... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - Governors - 1887 - 434 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom. " 6. Resolved, That his majesty's liege people, the inhabitants of this colony, are not bound to yield... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1888 - 774 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the general assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British, as well as American, freedom." The following day, Henry being absent, the last resolution was stricken out ; but complete copies had... | |
 | American Historical Association - Historiography - 1894 - 626 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British, as well as American freedom." The publication of these resolves, as is well known, fired the colonies, they all having continuously... | |
 | America - 1892 - 734 pages
...to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom ; that the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen to represent them, is the distinguishing... | |
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Resolved therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever... 
