Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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Page 63
... present mafters confefs that they were always ours by ancient right . We fhall throw brafs and iron out of our houses , and nothing but filver will be seen among us . All this is very defirable , but it is not certain that it can be ...
... present mafters confefs that they were always ours by ancient right . We fhall throw brafs and iron out of our houses , and nothing but filver will be seen among us . All this is very defirable , but it is not certain that it can be ...
Page 133
... present system of go- vernment has defcended through many ages , and that we have a larger part in the representation of the kingdom , than any other county . " All this is true , but it is neither cogent nor perfuafive . We look to the ...
... present system of go- vernment has defcended through many ages , and that we have a larger part in the representation of the kingdom , than any other county . " All this is true , but it is neither cogent nor perfuafive . We look to the ...
Page 134
... present form of government it shall stand in the place of all argument , that we do not like it . While we are governed as we do not like , where is our liberty ? We do not like taxes , we will therefore not be taxed ; we do not like ...
... present form of government it shall stand in the place of all argument , that we do not like it . While we are governed as we do not like , where is our liberty ? We do not like taxes , we will therefore not be taxed ; we do not like ...
Page 162
... present pleasure or his prefent ease ; fo confcious of his own knowledge and ablities , that he would not fuffer a minifter to govern , and fo lax of attention , and timorous of oppofition , that he was not able to govern for himself ...
... present pleasure or his prefent ease ; fo confcious of his own knowledge and ablities , that he would not fuffer a minifter to govern , and fo lax of attention , and timorous of oppofition , that he was not able to govern for himself ...
Page 182
... present weak- nefs ; our planters are always quarrelling with their governor , whom they confider as lefs to be trufted than the French ; and our traders hourly alienate the Indians by their tricks and oppreffions , and we continue ...
... present weak- nefs ; our planters are always quarrelling with their governor , whom they confider as lefs to be trufted than the French ; and our traders hourly alienate the Indians by their tricks and oppreffions , and we continue ...
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