The Life of Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1896 - 453 pages
 

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Page xv - Undoubtedly such a democracy is often unlovely in its manifestations. Emerson quoted approvingly Fisher Ames, as saying that " a monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft which would never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
Page 383 - framed an act for a permanent revenue for the support of Virginia, and sent it there by Lord Culpepper, the Governor of that colony, which was afterwards passed into a law, and " enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by, and with the consent of the General Assembly of Virginia.
Page 236 - This is the foulest, subtlest, and most venomous serpent ever issued from the egg of sedition. I saw the small seed when it was implanted; it was a grain of mustard. I have watched the plant until it has become a great tree." It was the transformation into a strong cord of what had been a rope of sand. As
Page 271 - of the nature of private letters between friends. They were written by public officers, to persons in public station, on public affairs, and intended to procure public measures. They were therefore handed to other public persons who might be influenced by them to produce those measures.
Page 95 - the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power delivered down, From age to age, by your renowned forefathers, So dearly bought, the price of so much blood ! Oh, let it never perish in your hands, But piously transmit it to your children. Do thou, great liberty, inspire our souls, And make our lives in thy possession happy, Or our death glorious in thy just defence.
Page 6 - out of themselves, a convenient number of fit men to order the planting or prudential occasions of that town, according to instructions given them in writing, provided nothing be done by them contrary to the public laws and orders of the country; provided also the number of such select persons be not above nine.
Page 17 - sometimes before the merchant answers that he has it, he says : ' Is your pay ready ? ' Perhaps the chap replies, ' Yes.' ' What do you pay in ?' says the merchant. The buyer having answered, then the price is set; as suppose he wants a sixpenny knife, in ' pay ' it is twelvepence; in ' pay as money,
Page xiii - and give him absolute power over the currency of the United States and every part of it, provided always that he should meddle with nothing but the currency. As little as I revere his memory, I will acknowledge that he understood the subject of coin and commerce better than any man I ever knew in this country.
Page 89 - Otis, who still remained the popular idol. Otis had said in May : " It is the duty of all humbly and silently to acquiesce in all the decisions of the supreme legislature. Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand will never entertain the thought but of submission to our Sovereign and to the authority of Parliament in all possible contingencies.
Page 141 - I relieve myself by considering that in a remove from a state of nature to the most perfect state of government there must be a great restraint of natural liberty. I doubt whether it is possible to project a system of government in which a colony 3,000 miles distant from the parent state shall enjoy all the liberties of the parent state. I

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