Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe: Illustrative of Their Characters, and of the Events of the American Revolution, Volumen1H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1825 |
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... stamp act , the principle of which the colonies denied , and the practical operation of which they finally resisted . In March , 1764 , as every reader remembers , the prin- ciple , asserted by Parliament , was carried out into an act ...
... stamp act , the principle of which the colonies denied , and the practical operation of which they finally resisted . In March , 1764 , as every reader remembers , the prin- ciple , asserted by Parliament , was carried out into an act ...
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... stamp act , passed by the British Parliament in the winter session of 1765 , was to take effect at the beginning of the following November . Mr. Lee considered this act " a fatal blow " to the liberty of 30 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
... stamp act , passed by the British Parliament in the winter session of 1765 , was to take effect at the beginning of the following November . Mr. Lee considered this act " a fatal blow " to the liberty of 30 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
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... stamp act . I am greatly obliged to you , my best friend , for your design of helping me to that collection ; * but it is very well that the appointment has passed me , since , by the unanimous suffrage of his countrymen ...... is ...
... stamp act . I am greatly obliged to you , my best friend , for your design of helping me to that collection ; * but it is very well that the appointment has passed me , since , by the unanimous suffrage of his countrymen ...... is ...
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... stamp act ) against us , should instruct every American , that as li- berty can never be supported without arts and learning , a diligent attention to those should be the ruling object , with every thinking man . But then , my brother ...
... stamp act ) against us , should instruct every American , that as li- berty can never be supported without arts and learning , a diligent attention to those should be the ruling object , with every thinking man . But then , my brother ...
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... stamp act to letters to distant correspondents ; but , very soon after it became a law , he determined to exert all ... stamp act , the most promi- ment was to form an association for the purpose of de- terring all persons from accepting ...
... stamp act to letters to distant correspondents ; but , very soon after it became a law , he determined to exert all ... stamp act , the most promi- ment was to form an association for the purpose of de- terring all persons from accepting ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adopted America appointed army Arthur Lee Assembly body Boston Britain British brother cause CHANTILLY Charles Lee colonies committee of five committee of three conduct Congress consider consideration constitution convention correspondence council countrymen court danger declaration declaratory act delegates draught duty effect eloquence enemy England esteem favour France gentlemen gress happy honour hope House of Burgesses independence instant interest justice king laws Lee was chairman Lee was chosen Lee's legislature letter liberty Lord Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Shelburne majesty measures ment military ministry mittee mother country Nova Scotia opinion oppression papers Parliament Patrick Henry patriot person petition Philadelphia political prepare present principles proceedings province R. H. Lee reader reported resolution Resolved respect RICHARD HENRY LEE Samuel Adams sent sentiments session SIR-I spirit stamp act tion troops United Virginia Washington Westmoreland Williamsburg wish
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Página 278 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us. and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off' former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Página 278 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 277 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 277 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Página 280 - Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Página 277 - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us . For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states ; For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world...
Página 171 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Página 240 - An Ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States North west of the river Ohio.
Página 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Página 279 - We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend [a] jurisdiction over [these our States], We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, [no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension: that these were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain...