The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Volumen4Childs & Peterson, 1840 |
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... Petition to the King , for Changing the Proprietary Gov- ernment of Pennsylvania into a Royal Government Remarks on a Particular Militia Bill rejected by the Pro- prietor's Deputy , or Governor • Preface to the Speech of Joseph Galloway ...
... Petition to the King , for Changing the Proprietary Gov- ernment of Pennsylvania into a Royal Government Remarks on a Particular Militia Bill rejected by the Pro- prietor's Deputy , or Governor • Preface to the Speech of Joseph Galloway ...
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... petition the King to take the government of the colony into his own hands , after making a proper remuneration to the proprietaries ; or , in other words , to convert the Proprietary Government into a Royal Government . The following ...
... petition the King to take the government of the colony into his own hands , after making a proper remuneration to the proprietaries ; or , in other words , to convert the Proprietary Government into a Royal Government . The following ...
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... petition to his Majesty the last year , complained of several grievances they lay under , by the neglect or mismanagement of the proprietors of that province , or their agents ; unto which they also added , that during the whole time ...
... petition to his Majesty the last year , complained of several grievances they lay under , by the neglect or mismanagement of the proprietors of that province , or their agents ; unto which they also added , that during the whole time ...
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... petitions from the people , the proprietors were obliged to surrender that government to the crown ; Queen Anne then reigning , who , of all our crowned heads since the Rev- olution , was by far the least favorable to Dissenters ; yet ...
... petitions from the people , the proprietors were obliged to surrender that government to the crown ; Queen Anne then reigning , who , of all our crowned heads since the Rev- olution , was by far the least favorable to Dissenters ; yet ...
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... petition to the KING to take this province under his Majesty's im- mediate protection and government , the more unani- mously we shall go into it . We are chiefly people of three countries . British spirits can no longer bear the ...
... petition to the KING to take this province under his Majesty's im- mediate protection and government , the more unani- mously we shall go into it . We are chiefly people of three countries . British spirits can no longer bear the ...
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Página 36 - Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Página 375 - Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Página 152 - The Stamp Act says, we shall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchase, nor grant, nor recover debts; we shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless we pay such and such sums ; and thus it is intended to extort our money from us, or ruin us by the consequences of refusing to pay it.
Página 292 - Company; as also all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the west and northwest...
Página 358 - ... so soon as the state and circumstances of the said colonies will admit thereof, they shall, with the advice and consent of the members of our council, summon and call General Assemblies...
Página 262 - ... upon the sea, or in any haven, river, creek, or place where the admiral or admirals have power, authority, or jurisdiction...
Página 252 - In this assurance my mind most perfectly acquiesces, and I confess I feel not the least alarm from the discontents which are to arise from putting people at their ease ; nor do I apprehend the destruction of this empire from giving, by an act of free grace and indulgence, to two millions of my fellowcitizens, some share of those rights upon which I have always been taught to value myself.
Página 157 - The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and paid, in all their courts, obedience to acts of parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink and paper.
Página 150 - Fuller; their seventh and last resolution setting forth, that it was their opinion that the House be moved, that leave be given to bring in a bill to repeal the Stamp Act.
Página 261 - ... as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, whatsoever, as the courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer within his majesty's kingdom of England...