History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 第 2 卷D. Appleton, 1860 |
其他版本 - 查看全部
常见术语和短语
Abraham Whipple adjourned adopted afterwards America appointed army Assembly bills of credit Board of Trade Boston brigade Bristol British Capt CHAP charter church colony command commissioners committee Congress Connecticut continental convention council Court Cranston delegates deputies deputy-governor Dudley election enemy England five fleet Fort George four French Gaspee George governor Greene held Hopkins hundred pounds issued Jabez Bowen Jenckes John Joseph Joseph Jenckes July June King Kingstown land letter lieutenant Little Compton March Massachusetts ment militia Narraganset Newport officers ordered paper money Parliament party passed petition port pounds sterling present Providence Providence county received regiment repealed Rhode Island Samuel Samuel Ward sent Sept session ships sloop soon South Kingstown stamp act Stephen Hopkins thousand pounds tion Tiverton town meeting troops vessels voted Wanton Ward Washington William XVII York
热门引用章节
第110页 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
第110页 - ... Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
第495页 - Further, by the charter granted to this colony, it appears that the free and quiet enjoyment of the Christian religion and a desire of propagating the same were the principal views with which this colony was settled, and by a law made and passed in the year 1663, no person who does not profess the Christian religion can be admitted free of this colony.
第374页 - ... the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations...
第286页 - Resolved, That his Majesty's liege people, the inhabitants of this colony are not bound to yield obedience to any law or ordinance whatever, designed to impose any taxation whatsoever upon them other than the laws or ordinances of the General Assembly aforesaid.
第286页 - Resolved therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever other than the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
第286页 - Resolved, That the first adventurers and settlers of this his Majesty's colony and dominion brought with them and transmitted to their posterity, and all other his Majesty's subjects since inhabiting in this his Majesty's said colony, all the privileges, franchises, and immunities that have at any time been held, enjoyed, and possessed by the people of Great Britain; 2.
第319页 - In less time than a minute after Captain Whipple's answer, the boats were alongside of the Gaspee, and boarded without opposition. The men on deck retreated below as Duddingston entered the cabin. As it was discovered that he was wounded, John Mawney, who had for two or three years been studying physic and surgery, was ordered to go into the cabin and dress Duddingston's wound, and I was directed to assist him.
第493页 - You are to permit a liberty of Conscience to all Persons, (except Papists,) so they be contented with a quiet and peaceable enjoyment of the same, not giving Offence or Scandal to the Government.
第500页 - The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies; to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity ; and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.