 | Biography - 1853 - 530 pages
...solicited some kind friend to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it. ... It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever." He recommended that the Stamp Act should be repealed absolutely and immediately, but that the repeal... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 516 pages
...opinions as to American affairs : " It is my opinion," he said, " that this kingdom has no right to levy a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert...circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1853 - 786 pages
...You have no right," said Pitt, " to tax America. Nevertheless, I assert the authority of this kingdom to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power ; the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 416 pages
...'to another time But since I cannot depend upon "ties, I will say now thus much, that in my opinion this "kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the Colonies. On "this point I could not be silent, nor repress the ardour of " my soul, smote as it is with indignation... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1854 - 775 pages
...You have no right," said Pitt, " to tax America. Nevertheless, I assert the authority of this kingdom to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power ; the taxes are a voluntary gift and grant... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1856 - 538 pages
...they leave all measures of right 1766. and wrong, to follow a delusion that may lead to destruction. It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies — to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. They... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...light, they leave all measures of right and wrong, to follow a delusion that may lead to destruction. d ; industry without vigor ; commerce expiring ; the...revenue unpaid, yet the people impoverished ; a church sub- " jects of this kingdom ; equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural rights of mankind... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1856 - 542 pages
...delusion that may lead to destruction. It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies — to be sovereign and supreme in every...the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with your- . selves to all the natural rights of mankind and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen, equally... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1856 - 538 pages
...leave all measures of right 1766. and wrong, to follow a delusion that may lead to destruction. lt is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies — to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. They... | |
 | American essays - 1889 - 876 pages
...subject of taxation, but upon all other subjects whatever. Even Pitt, excepting only taxation, asserted " the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to...in every circumstance of government and legislation ; " and Burke, from his theory of the English Constitution, was unabfe to dispute this vicious and... | |
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It is my opinion, that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever. 
