Junius Unmasked; Or Thomas Pain, the Author of the Letters of Junius, and the Declaration of IndependenceJ. Gray, 1872 - 335 páginas |
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... minister , and the prostituted legislature are for- gotten , or only recalled to be despised ; but the work of Junius , startling in thought , daring in design , bris- tling with satire , a consuming fire to those he attacked , remains ...
... minister , and the prostituted legislature are for- gotten , or only recalled to be despised ; but the work of Junius , startling in thought , daring in design , bris- tling with satire , a consuming fire to those he attacked , remains ...
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... ministry and corrupt legislature upon the people's rights , there was no one left to bend the bow at the gates . To tax the colonies became the settled plan of king , ministers , and parliament . The tax was easily imposed , but could ...
... ministry and corrupt legislature upon the people's rights , there was no one left to bend the bow at the gates . To tax the colonies became the settled plan of king , ministers , and parliament . The tax was easily imposed , but could ...
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... ministers and in behalf of hu- man rights ? Whence came that mighty pen , which has often been acknowledged to have done more for human freedom than the sword of Washington ? Why this dumb silence of history ? There comes to us no ...
... ministers and in behalf of hu- man rights ? Whence came that mighty pen , which has often been acknowledged to have done more for human freedom than the sword of Washington ? Why this dumb silence of history ? There comes to us no ...
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... minister at the court of St. James , for several of the colonies ; and , by what means nobody knows , obtains letters of the highest com- mendation ,. as an introduction to America , from her greatest and most honored citizen . A few ...
... minister at the court of St. James , for several of the colonies ; and , by what means nobody knows , obtains letters of the highest com- mendation ,. as an introduction to America , from her greatest and most honored citizen . A few ...
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... ministry . " The next eight paragraphs are intended to give the proof of the proposition , by reviewing the chief depart- ments of government , and endeavoring to show the incompetency or mal - administration of the men to whom they ...
... ministry . " The next eight paragraphs are intended to give the proof of the proposition , by reviewing the chief depart- ments of government , and endeavoring to show the incompetency or mal - administration of the men to whom they ...
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Página 224 - For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: For abolishing the...
Página 225 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Página 298 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Página 235 - When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Página 211 - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Página 256 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Página 227 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Página 258 - ... connected with Great Britain. I repeat the challenge ; not a single advantage is derived. Our corn will fetch its price in any market in Europe, and our imported goods must be paid for buy them where we will. But the injuries and disadvantages...
Página 221 - WHEN IN THE COURSE of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Página 257 - ... a thousand pores instruct us to detest, is madness and folly. Every day wears out the little remains of kindred between us and them...