 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's ° ofthat preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 564 páginas
...the two pence lost that makes the capital outrage. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave." See Mr. Burke's Speeches in 1774 and 1775. — BV f Nova Scotia, Georgia, the Floridas, and Canada.... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 páginas
...when called upon by the collector, "would not have impaired his fortune; but the payment of half of twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave." Hence the civil war, the elevation of Cromwell, and ihe death of Charles, fordoing precisely what the... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No, but the payment of half twenty shillings,...that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. — Speech on American Taxation. But what (says the financier) is peace to us without money ? Your... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1845 - 88 páginas
...assessment demanded of him, on account of one of his estates in Buckinghamshire, was but twenty shillings. But " the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded" as was so* strikingly said by one of the greatest orators and statesmen of England,* near a century... | |
 | 1851 - 560 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...unable and unwilling to bear. It is then, Sir, upon the princijde of this measure, and nothing else, that we are at issue. It is a principle of political expediency.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...H. called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. You are, therefore, at this moment, in the awkward situation of fighting for a phantom ; a quiddity;... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...'that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. You are, therefore, at this moment, in the awkward situation of fighting for v. phantom ; a quiddity;... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 páginas
...called upon for the payment of twenty shillings.7 Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to hear. It is then, sir, upon the principle of this measure, and nothing else, that we are at issue.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 páginas
...Id. called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the American? are unable and unwilling to bear. You are, therefore, at this moment, in the awkward situation... | |
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The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment... 
