 | English literature - 1766 - 754 pages
...they leave all meafores of right and wrong, to follow a defafioD ib. t may lead to deflrucVion. Ic Ê my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the fame time, I aflèrt the authority of this kingdom orer the colonies, to be fovereign and foprcme,... | |
 | 1741 - 832 pages
...in my bed, fo great was the agitation of my mind for the confequenccs, I would have folicited fome kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my teltimony againft it — it is now an aft which has pafled. " I would fpeak with a decency of evefy... | |
 | English literature - 1766 - 520 pages
...honourable gentleman then enters fully into the merits of the ttamp-aft, and declares it to be his opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. He is of opinion, that taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power, and that the taxes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 700 pages
...light, they leave all meafures of right and wrong, to follow a dclufion that may lead to deftruction. It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the fame time, I aflert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies, to be fovereign and fuprcme, in... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1786 - 376 pages
...of right and wrong, to follow a delufion that may lead to deftruction. It is my opinion that; tills kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the Colonies. At the fame time, I affcrt the authority of this kingdom over the Colonies, to be fovereign and fupreme, in... | |
 | John Almon, William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Great Britain - 1792
...in my bed, fo great was the agitation of my mind for the confequences l I would have f -licited fome kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have home mf teftimony .igainft it. It is now an a£t that has pafled — I would freak with decency of... | |
 | John Almon - Great Britain - 1793 - 542 pages
...my bed, fb was the agitation of my mind for the o •< confequences, I would have folicited fome ' kind hand to have laid me down on this ' floor, to have borne my teflimony againft it ! o « CHAP. XXIX. ' It is now an a<5t that had pafTed — I would ' fpeak with... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 388 pages
...carried in my bed, fb great was the agitation of my mind for the confequences, I would have folicked fome kind hand to have laid me down on this floor to have borne my teftimony againft it. It is my opinion, that this kingdom has NO RIGHT to lay a tax upon the Cotonies.... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1796 - 508 pages
...have folicited fome kind hand to have laid me down on this floor to have borne my teftimony againft it. It is my opinion, that this kingdom has NO RIGHT to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the fame time, I aflert the authority of this kingdom to be fovereign and fupreme in every circumftance... | |
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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... 
