 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 346 páginas
...endured to be carried in my bed — so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences — I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me...floor, to have borne my testimony against it ! It is now an act that has passed. I would speak with decency of every act of this House; but I must beg the... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 páginas
...endured to be carried in my bed — so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences — I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me...floor, to have borne my testimony against it ! It is now an act that has passed. I would speak with decency of every act of this House ; but I must beg... | |
 | David Hastings Mason - 1884 - 178 páginas
...regulation, as set forth in the first extract; for Lord Chatham declared, in the course of his argument: " It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax on the colonies"; hence, according to his view, the right of Great Britain to bind, by prohibitions... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - 1884 - 686 páginas
...the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it. It is now an act that has passed. I would speak with decency of every act of this House ; but I must beg... | |
 | Thomas Hutchinson - 1884 - 628 páginas
...82. On what 'grounds then did Pitt in 1766 exclaim — " I will now say thus much, that in my opinion this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the Colonies" ? We may open our eyes in astonishment. See also Lord Mahon's Hist., ch. (xlv.) p. 131. t ' Journal... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1890 - 718 páginas
...villc, his wife's brother), he said, " every capital measure they have taken has been entirely wrong This kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the Colonies." 2 Grenville delivered an elaborate defence of the Stamp Act, and flamed with indignation against the... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1890 - 720 páginas
...ville, his wife's brother), he said, " e\*ery capital measure they have taken has been entirely wrong This kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the Colonies." a Grenville delivered an elaborate defence of the Stamp Act, and flamed with indignation against the... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1893 - 706 páginas
...could have endured to have been carried, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me...this floor to have borne my testimony against it." In January, 1765, Sir William Pynsent, the owner of Burton Pynsent, died, having devised it to Mr.... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1895 - 538 páginas
...are therefore — I speak it with grief — I speak it with indignation — We are SLAVES." — Ed. \ "It is my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a TAX upon the colonies." — "The Americans are the SONS, not the BASTARDS of England." — "The distinction between LEGISLATION... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 522 páginas
...endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me...floor, to have borne my testimony against it. It is now an act that has passed. I would speak with decency of every act of this house, but I must beg indulgence... | |
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House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony... 
