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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 214 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=12mm, Gew.=318gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ing and repairing public buildings, or for other local conveniences, within your respective towns and districts." Why this degrading distinction .' Ought not the property honestly acquired by Canadians to be held as sacred as that of Englishmen ? Have not Canadians sense enough to attend to any other public affairs, than gathering stones from one place and piling them up in another ? Unhappy people ! who are not only injured, but insulted. Nay more !?With such a superlative contempt of your understanding and spirit has an insolent ministry presumed to think of you, our respectable fellow subjects, according to the information we have received, as firmly to persuade themselves that your gratitude, for the injuries and insults they have recently offered to you, will engage you to take up arms, and render yourselves the ridicule and detestation of the world, by becoming tools, in their hands, to assist them in taking that freedom from us, which they have treacherously denied to you; the unavoidable consequence of which attempt, if successful, would be the extinction of all hopes of you or your posterity being ever restored to freedom: for idiocy itself cannot believe, that, when their drudgery is performed, they will treat you with less cruelty than they have us, who are of the same blood with themselves. What would your countryman, the immortal Montesquieu, have said to such a plan of domination, as has been framed for you ? Hear his words, with an intenseness of thought suited to the importance of the subject. " In a free state, every man, who is supposed a free agent, ought to be concerned in his own government: therefore the legislative should reside in the whole body of the people, or their representatives." -" The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillty of...<

2009, ISBN: 0217365124, Lieferbar binnen 4-6 Wochen

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 214 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=12mm, Gew.=318gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 214 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=12mm, Gew.=318gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ing and repairing public buildings, or for other local conveniences, within your respective towns and districts." Why this degrading distinction .' Ought not the property honestly acquired by Canadians to be held as sacred as that of Englishmen ? Have not Canadians sense enough to attend to any other public affairs, than gathering stones from one place and piling them up in another ? Unhappy people ! who are not only injured, but insulted. Nay more !?With such a superlative contempt of your understanding and spirit has an insolent ministry presumed to think of you, our respectable fellow subjects, according to the information we have received, as firmly to persuade themselves that your gratitude, for the injuries and insults they have recently offered to you, will engage you to take up arms, and render yourselves the ridicule and detestation of the world, by becoming tools, in their hands, to assist them in taking that freedom from us, which they have treacherously denied to you; the unavoidable consequence of which attempt, if successful, would be the extinction of all hopes of you or your posterity being ever restored to freedom: for idiocy itself cannot believe, that, when their drudgery is performed, they will treat you with less cruelty than they have us, who are of the same blood with themselves. What would your countryman, the immortal Montesquieu, have said to such a plan of domination, as has been framed for you ? Hear his words, with an intenseness of thought suited to the importance of the subject. " In a free state, every man, who is supposed a free agent, ought to be concerned in his own government: therefore the legislative should reside in the whole body of the people, or their representatives." -" The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillty of...<

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