 | 1782 - 682 páginas
...reprcfented in the Britilh parliament. She was reprefented by the members for the county of Kent, of which the thirteen provinces were a part or parcel...charters they were to hold of the manor of Greenwich, in that county. This opinion raifed a very loud laugh ; but Sir James did not fwerve from it ; he continued... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1868 - 776 páginas
...represented by the members for the county of Kent, of which the thirteen Provinces were a part and parcel ; for in their charters they were to hold of...Kent, of which manor they were by charter to be parcel ! The opinion, it is said, " raised a very loud laugh," but Sir James continued to support it, and... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1874 - 914 páginas
...represented by the members for the county of Kent, of which the thirteen provinces were a part and parcel ; for in their charters they were to hold of...Kent, of which manor they were by charter to be parcel ! The opinion, it is said, " raised a very loud laugh," but Sir James continued to support it, and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 580 páginas
...undoubted right to tax America, because she was represented by the members for the County of Kent, of which the thirteen provinces were a part or parcel,...in their charters they were to hold of the manor of Greensvich in Kent." 3 The whole pretension had been scouted by the indignant eloquence of Mr. Pitt,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1876 - 578 páginas
...undoubted right to tax America, because she was represented by the members for the County of Kent, of which the thirteen provinces were a part or parcel,...they were to hold of the manor of Greenwich in Kent." 3 The whole pretension had been scouted by the indignant eloquence of Mr. Pitt, afterward Lord Chatham.... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 398 páginas
...undoubted right to tax America, because she was represented by the members for the County of Kent, of which the thirteen provinces were a part or parcel,...they were to hold of the manor of Greenwich in Kent." 3 The whole pretension had been scouted by the indignant eloquence of Mr. Pitt, afterward Lord Chatham.... | |
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... at the expense of reason was never more strikingly illustrated than in the argument of Sir James Marriott, the Admiralty Judge, who gravely insisted, in the House of Commons, that England "had an undoubted right to tax America, because she was represented... 