 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 488 pages
...attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatever, other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom. The above resolutions were found among the papers of Patrick Henry, after his death, sealed up, and... | |
 | John Anderson Richardson - Confederate States of America - 1914 - 616 pages
...to visit 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," a direct charge that the King and lords, and commons of Great Britain were guilty of tyranny and despotism.... | |
 | Leon Albert Smith - Bible - 1914 - 528 pages
...when he said, in his famous resolutions of 1765, that such government of the colonies by Great Britain 'has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.' "An imperial policy will surely some day lead to an emperor. He may assume some softer name if our... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Biography - 1916 - 554 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. " Resolved, That His Majesty's liege people, the inhabitants of this colony, are not bound to yield... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 376 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." On the back of the paper containing those resolutions, is the following endorsement, which is also... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1917 - 718 pages
...Resolutions, which declared "That every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatever than the General Assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional,...manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American liberty." (2) Two more quiet but effective means were the organization of " Sons of Liberty," a kind... | |
 | John Holladay Latané - United States - 1918 - 702 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." On the fifth resolution which embodied the words just quoted, an angry debate ensued and Patrick Henry... | |
 | Willis Mason West - United States - 1918 - 846 pages
...attempt to vest power to tax the colonists in " any persons whatsoever " except the colonial Assemblies " has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom." It was in the debate upon this resolution that Henry startled the House by his famous warning from... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1919 - 728 pages
...of this colony ; and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatever than the General Assembly aforesaid, is illegal, unconstitutional,...a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as 1765] The Stamp Act Congress 121 American liberty." In other words, the Virginia Assembly denied the... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Virginia - 1919 - 288 pages
...attempt 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." This was a part of the famous "Resolves" offered and voted in the then capital of Virginia, Williamsburg,... | |
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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... 
