The Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts: Containing Also, Notices of Some Contemporary Characters and Events, from the Year 1760 to 1775Wells and Lilly, 1823 - 508 pages |
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... Grants - Agency of the Crown Officers CHAPTER XIV . 200 The Stamp Act Congress proposed - Riots in Boston -- Liberty Tree 213 CHAPTER XV . The Stamp Act Congress - Opposite Principles of the Massachusetts Dele- gates - Brigadier Ruggles ...
... Grants - Agency of the Crown Officers CHAPTER XIV . 200 The Stamp Act Congress proposed - Riots in Boston -- Liberty Tree 213 CHAPTER XV . The Stamp Act Congress - Opposite Principles of the Massachusetts Dele- gates - Brigadier Ruggles ...
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... grant an amnesty to all who were honest though misled ; while their fortunate rivals are borne in triumph through the nation they have saved . By this mighty event , one party became the citizens of the freest nation upon earth : while ...
... grant an amnesty to all who were honest though misled ; while their fortunate rivals are borne in triumph through the nation they have saved . By this mighty event , one party became the citizens of the freest nation upon earth : while ...
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... grant of lands in some bleak region of colonial subserviency . The talents of the individuals may have been equal ; yet in this case , the names on one side are already forgotten , while those on the other are daily acquir- ing renown ...
... grant of lands in some bleak region of colonial subserviency . The talents of the individuals may have been equal ; yet in this case , the names on one side are already forgotten , while those on the other are daily acquir- ing renown ...
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... grant it . None of the other judges said a word in favour of it ; but as the application was on the part of the Crown , it could not be dismissed without a hearing , which after con- sultation was fixed for the next term of the Court ...
... grant it . None of the other judges said a word in favour of it ; but as the application was on the part of the Crown , it could not be dismissed without a hearing , which after con- sultation was fixed for the next term of the Court ...
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... grant it , was to be derived from the statute of the 7th and 8th of William III . , which gave officers of the revenue in this country the same powers as officers in England — And that in the execution of their duty they should re ...
... grant it , was to be derived from the statute of the 7th and 8th of William III . , which gave officers of the revenue in this country the same powers as officers in England — And that in the execution of their duty they should re ...
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Page 61 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against Writs of Assistance. Then and there, was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there, the child Independence was born.
Page 336 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 336 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 137 - The people are Protestants; and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion. This is a persuasion not only favorable to liberty, but built upon it. I do not think, Sir, that the reason of this averseness in the dissenting churches from all that looks like absolute government is so much to be sought in their religious tenets, as in their history.
Page 77 - They went much farther; they attempted to prove, and they succeeded, that in theory it ought to be so, from the particular nature of a House of Commons as an immediate representative of the people, whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not. They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty can subsist. The Colonies...
Page 137 - All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Page 137 - It is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the protestant religion. This religion, under a variety of denominations, agreeing in nothing but in the communion of the spirit of liberty, is predominant in most of the northern provinces, where the Church of England, notwithstanding its legal rights, is in reality no more than a sort of private sect, not composing most probably the tenth of the people. The colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest...
Page 61 - Otis was a flame of fire : with a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. American independence was then and there born. Every man, of an immense crowded audience, appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance.
Page 137 - Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion.
Page 77 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist. The colonies draw from you, as with their lifeblood, these ideas and principles. Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing.