The Decline of the French Monarchy, Հատոր 2,Մաս 2

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Walker, Fuller, and Company, 1866

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Էջ 377 - 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.
Էջ 384 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain, without the formal consent of the other first obtained ; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally, or tacitly, assured by the treaty or treaties, that shall terminate the war.
Էջ 610 - The General Assembly of this Colony have no desire to derogate from the Power of the Parliament of Great- Britain; but they cannot avoid deprecating the Loss of such Rights as they have hitherto enjoyed, Rights established in the first Dawn of our Constitution, founded upon the most substantial Reasons, confirmed by invariable Usage...
Էջ 404 - Catharine cared very little for rights ; but she willingly lent herself to every opportunity of making a display. She permitted Panin to send to the belligerent powers and to the courts of Sweden and Denmark a declaration, in which Russia laid down the principles, first, that neutral vessels have a right to sail from port to port, and along the coasts of nations at war; secondly, that property belonging to the subjects of belligerent powers should be respected on neutral vessels ; thirdly, that no...
Էջ 363 - England, and had been aggravated by the sombre and solitary life to which he had condemned himself;— that mind, he adds, at once too strong and too weak to bear the burden of existence with tranquillity, was perpetually prolific of monsters and of phantoms, that haunted all his steps, and drove him to the borders of distraction.
Էջ 606 - Britain," at a meeting which was held at Burns's Coffee-house on the evening of the 31st of October, 1765 ; and the " Retailers of Goods " in the same city entered into a similar agreement on the same day (Holt's New -York Gazette, or Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1192, Thursday, Nov. 7, 1765; Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser, Monday, Nov.
Էջ 605 - We proceed with propriety and boldness to inform the commons of Great Britain, who, to their infinite honor, in all ages asserted the liberties of mankind, that the people of this colony nobly disdain the thought of claiming that exemption as a privilege. They found it on a basis more honorable, solid, and stable ; they challenge it, and glory in it as their right.
Էջ 610 - ... rights of the colonies, — their right of making their own laws, and disposing of their own property by representatives of their own choosing, — if such is really the case between Great Britain and her colonies, then the connection between them ought to cease ; and sooner or later it must inevitably cease. The English government cannot long act towards a part of its dominions upon principles diametrically opposed to its own, without losing itself in the slavery it would impose upon the colonies,...
Էջ 514 - More will be paid," he said in the preamble printed at the head of his notes and circulated in profusion over the whole of France, " undoubtedly more will be paid, but by whom? ... By those only who do not pay enough; they will pay what they ought according to a just proportionment, and nobody will be aggrieved. Privileges will be sacrificed ! Yes ! Justice wills it, necessity requires it! Would it be better to surcharge the non-privileged, the people?
Էջ 383 - I. If war should break out between France and Great Britain, during the continuance of the present war between the United States and England, his Majesty and the United States shall make it a common cause, and aid each other mutually with their good offices, their councils, and their forces, according to the exigence of conjunctures, as becomes good and faithful allies.

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