This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 45515 | But, if the electrical fluid so easily pervades glass, how does the vial become_ charged_( as we term it) when we hold it in our hands? |
| 45515 | For if it was fine enough to come with the electrical fluid through the body of one person, why should it stop on the skin of another? |
| 45515 | Would not the bottle in that case be left just as we found it, uncharged, as we know a metal bottle so attempted to be charged would be? |
| 45515 | Would not the fire thrown in by the wire pass through to our hands, and so escape into the floor? |
| 43855 | Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright,as Poor Richard says.--"But, dost thou love life? |
| 43855 | ''But what madness it must be to run in debt for these superfluities? |
| 43855 | ''So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? |
| 43855 | --If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? |
| 43855 | And, after all, of what use is this pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? |
| 43855 | Are you then your own master? |
| 43855 | How shall we be ever able to pay them? |
| 43855 | What would you advise us to?'' |
| 43855 | [ Illustration]''Methinks I hear some of you say,"Must a man afford himself no leisure?" |
| 48136 | But what are we to think of a governor who could play so scurvy a trick, and thus grossly deceive a poor young lad, wholly destitute of experience? |
| 48136 | But who would have supposed, said he, Franklin to be capable of such a composition? |
| 48136 | But, if the electrical fluid so easily pervades glass, how does the phial become_ charged_( as we term it) when we hold it in our hands? |
| 48136 | Can this be ascribed to the attraction of any surrounding body or matter drawing them asunder, or drawing the one away from the other? |
| 48136 | For if it was fine enough to come with the electric fluid through the body of one person, why should it stop on the skin of another? |
| 48136 | I have asked her, said my landlady, how, living as she did, she could find so much employment for a confessor? |
| 48136 | If it be asked, what thickness of a metalline rod may be supposed sufficient? |
| 48136 | If not, and repulsion exists in nature, and in magnetism, why may it not exist in electricity? |
| 48136 | May it not constitute a part, and even a principal part, of the solid substance of bodies? |
| 48136 | May not different degrees of the vibration of the above- mentioned universal medium, occasion the appearances of different colours? |
| 48136 | Must not the smallest particle conceivable have, with such a motion, a force exceeding that of a twenty- four pounder, discharged from a cannon? |
| 48136 | Nay, suppose I have drawn the electric matter from both of them, what becomes of it? |
| 48136 | Now want of sense, when a man has the misfortune to be so circumstanced, is it not a kind of excuse for want of modesty? |
| 48136 | The Abbé owns,_ p._ 94, that he had heard this remarked, but says, Why is not a conductor of electricity an electric subject? |
| 48136 | To which the Abbé thus objects;"Tell me( says he), I pray you, how much time is necessary for this pretended discharge? |
| 48136 | Were they all equally dry? |
| 48136 | Whether in a river, lake, or sea, the electric fire will not dissipate and not return to the bottle? |
| 48136 | Why will he have the phial, into which the, water is to be decanted from a charged phial, held in a man''s hand? |
| 48136 | Will not cork balls, electrised negatively, separate as far as when electrised positively? |
| 48136 | Would not the bottle in that case be left just as we found it, uncharged, as we know a metal bottle so attempted to be charged would be? |
| 48136 | Would not the fire, thrown in by the wire, pass through to our hands, and so escape into the floor? |
| 48136 | Would not this experiment convince the Abbé Nollet of his egregious mistake? |
| 48136 | _ Query_, What are the effects of air in electrical experiments? |
| 48136 | or, will it proceed in strait lines through the water the shortest courses possible back to the bottle? |
| 40236 | ''And in the name of all the gods,''replied Socrates,''tell me, what is the first service that you intend to render the state?'' 40236 ''Perhaps I might,''said Charmidas;''but why do you ask me this question?'' |
| 40236 | ''Tell me, at least, the expenses of the republic, for no doubt you intend to retrench the superfluous?'' 40236 ''Tell me, then, in what consists the revenue of the state, and to how much it may amount? |
| 40236 | And what have I done all this time for God or man? 40236 But what madness must it be to_ run in debt_ for these superfluities? |
| 40236 | How so? |
| 40236 | Methinks I hear some of you say,''Must a man afford himself no leisure?'' 40236 So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? |
| 40236 | Socrates replied,''Would not the way to enrich the republic be to increase its revenue?'' 40236 You ask if I still relish my old studies? |
| 40236 | ''Tis a very sensible question you ask, how the air can affect the barometer, when its opening appears covered with wood? |
| 40236 | *** How can such miserable sinners as we are entertain so much pride as to conceit that every offence against our imagined honour merits_ death_? |
| 40236 | Ages have intervened between its several steps; but, as knowledge of late increases rapidly, why should not those steps be quickened? |
| 40236 | All princes who are disposed to become tyrants must probably approve of this opinion, and be willing to establish it; but is it not a dangerous one? |
| 40236 | An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set: what think you of the odd half of a pair of scissors? |
| 40236 | And why is it not fulfilled? |
| 40236 | And why? |
| 40236 | And, after all, of what use is this pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? |
| 40236 | And, pray, would you have them hoard the money they get? |
| 40236 | Are they, then, any better or other than pickpockets? |
| 40236 | Are we farmers the only people to be grudged the profits of our honest labour? |
| 40236 | Are you, then, your own master? |
| 40236 | As it is impossible to know what your ideas are of the_ maniére convenable_, how can one answer this? |
| 40236 | As you are now free from public cares, and I expect to be so in a few months, why may we not resume that kind of correspondence? |
| 40236 | Being thus attacked by both ends_ of the constitution_, the head and tail_ of government_, what am I to do? |
| 40236 | But I ask, why a partial tax? |
| 40236 | But now, when you find yourself incapable of aiding a private man, how can you think of behaving yourself so as to be useful to a whole people? |
| 40236 | But though it be true to a proverb that lazy folks take the most pains, does it follow that they deserve the most money? |
| 40236 | But were you to succeed, do you imagine any good would be done by it? |
| 40236 | But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? |
| 40236 | But why more than any other workman? |
| 40236 | But you object, if water may be thus carried into the clouds, why have we not salt rains? |
| 40236 | Can I be assured that I shall be allowed to come back again to make the report?'' |
| 40236 | Can he possibly preserve a right to that character, if by fraud, stratagem, or contrivance, he avoids that payment in whole or in part? |
| 40236 | Can we easily conceive how the strata of the earth could have been so deranged, if it had not been a mere shell supported by a heavier fluid? |
| 40236 | Can you not, when your children are all at school, make a little party and take a trip hither? |
| 40236 | Can you, my lord, forgive my long silence, and my not acknowledging till now the favour you did me in sending me your excellent book? |
| 40236 | Could all these people, now employed in raising, making, or carrying superfluities, be subsisted by raising necessaries? |
| 40236 | Do we know the limit of condensation air is capable of? |
| 40236 | Do you possess it? |
| 40236 | Does it rise above our atmosphere, and mix with the universal mass of the same kind? |
| 40236 | For he governed his passions,''& c."But what signifies our wishing? |
| 40236 | Has the question, how came the earth by its magnetism, ever been considered? |
| 40236 | Has your Society among its books the French work_ Sur les Arts et les Metiers_? |
| 40236 | Have you been upon the place? |
| 40236 | Have you seen them?'' |
| 40236 | He began with him thus:"''You have a mind, then, to govern the republic?'' |
| 40236 | How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep? |
| 40236 | How shall we ever be able to pay them? |
| 40236 | How so? |
| 40236 | How, then, is it possible, said my friend, that you can keep on your business? |
| 40236 | If he is a just man, has he not the virtue of justice? |
| 40236 | If men are so wicked_ with religion_, what would they be if_ without it_? |
| 40236 | If one servant is more valuable than another, has he not more merit than the other? |
| 40236 | If the earth is at present magnetical, in virtue of the masses of iron ore contained in it, might not some ages pass before it had magnetic polarity? |
| 40236 | If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? |
| 40236 | Is a pacing- horse less valuable for being a natural pacer? |
| 40236 | Is a patriot not praiseworthy if public spirit is natural to him? |
| 40236 | Is any gentleman ashamed to undertake and execute the commission? |
| 40236 | Is it likely that_ iron ore_ immediately existed when this globe was at first formed; or may it not rather be supposed a gradual production of time? |
| 40236 | Is it not the Bible of the Massachusetts language, translated by Elliot, and printed in New- England about the middle of the last century? |
| 40236 | Is it not thus that fire is amassed, and makes the greatest part of the substance of combustible bodies? |
| 40236 | Is not all punishment inflicted beyond the merit of the offence, so much punishment of innocence? |
| 40236 | Is not the natural heat of animals thus produced, by separating in digestion the parts of food, and setting their fire at liberty? |
| 40236 | Is there, then, no difference in value between property and life? |
| 40236 | May it not have been from such considerations that the ancient philosophers supposed a sphere of fire to exist above the air of our atmosphere? |
| 40236 | Mean as this practice is, do we not daily see people of character and fortune engaged in it for trifling advantages to themselves? |
| 40236 | Might not that woman, by her labour, have made the reparation ordained by God in paying fourfold? |
| 40236 | Must I keep my corn in the barn, to feed and increase the breed of rats? |
| 40236 | Or do they employ these your darling manufacturers, and so scatter it again all over the nation? |
| 40236 | Or has he not the virtue of industry? |
| 40236 | Ought a man, who has not strength enought to carry a hundred pound weight, to undertake to carry a heavier burden?'' |
| 40236 | That soldiers and seamen, who must march and labour in the sun, should in the East or West Indies have a uniform of white? |
| 40236 | Their fine clothes and furniture, do they make themselves or for one another, and so keep the money among them? |
| 40236 | They ought to be repressed; but to whom dare we commit the care of doing it? |
| 40236 | To put a man to death for an offence which does not deserve death, is it not a murder? |
| 40236 | Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful? |
| 40236 | Was it not as worthy of his care that the world should say he was an honest and a good man? |
| 40236 | We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him? |
| 40236 | What becomes of that fluid? |
| 40236 | What now avails all my toil and labour in amassing honey- dew on this leaf, which I can not live to enjoy? |
| 40236 | What occasions, then, so much want and misery? |
| 40236 | What science, then, can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of the mathematics? |
| 40236 | What signifies philosophy that does not apply to some use? |
| 40236 | What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy? |
| 40236 | What was that saying? |
| 40236 | What was the consequence of this monstrous pride and insolence? |
| 40236 | What would you advise us to?" |
| 40236 | When will human reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this? |
| 40236 | Why should not the law of nations go on improving? |
| 40236 | Why, then, should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society? |
| 40236 | Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? |
| 40236 | Would it not be better for you to move into the house? |
| 40236 | Would you have me give them to, or drop them for a stranger I may find next Monday in the Church of Notre Dame, to be known by a rose in his hat? |
| 40236 | You ask what I mean? |
| 40236 | You saw that we, who understand and practise those rules, believed all your stories; why do you refuse to believe ours?" |
| 40236 | and if the law itself be unjust, may it not be the very"instrument"which ought"to raise the author''s and everybody''s highest indignation?" |
| 40236 | and what mean, low, rascally pickpockets must those be that can pick pockets for halfpence and for farthings? |
| 40236 | for, in politics, what can laws do without morals? |
| 40236 | is it then impossible to make an unjust law? |
| 40236 | may not even gold and silver be thus valued? |
| 40236 | says another,"have we then_ thieves_ among us? |
| 40236 | why laid on us farmers only? |
| 36338 | For,said he,"I am often asked by those to whom I propose subscribing,_ Have you consulted Franklin on this business? |
| 36338 | How so? |
| 36338 | My dear friend,said he, pleasantly,"how can you advise my avoiding disputes? |
| 36338 | Why the d-- l,said one of them,"you surely do n''t suppose that the fort will not be taken?" |
| 36338 | ****_ Q._ Are all parts of the colonies equally able to pay taxes? |
| 36338 | ****_ Q._ Are there any_ slitting- mills_ in America? |
| 36338 | ****_ Q._ From the thinness of the back settlements, would not the stamp- act be extremely inconvenient to the inhabitants, if executed? |
| 36338 | ****_ Q._ What was the temper of America towards Great Britain_ before the year_ 1763? |
| 36338 | ***_ Q._ Do you think the assemblies have a right to levy money on the subject there, to grant_ to the crown_? |
| 36338 | **_ Q._ Can anything less than a military force carry the stamp- act into execution? |
| 36338 | And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of Parliament? |
| 36338 | And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? |
| 36338 | And if a sparrow can not fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? |
| 36338 | And would they not then object to such a duty? |
| 36338 | But if Will Soc was a bad man, what had poor old Shehaes done? |
| 36338 | But shall we compare Saracens to Christians? |
| 36338 | But shall we imitate idolatrous papists, we that are enlightened Protestants? |
| 36338 | But shall white men and Christians act like a pagan negro? |
| 36338 | But, if he was, ought he not to have been fairly tried? |
| 36338 | Called in again._]_ Q._ Is the American stamp- act an equal tax on the country? |
| 36338 | Contrive day''s business, and What good shall{ 6} take the resolution of the day; prosecute I do this day? |
| 36338 | Do we come to America to learn and practise the manners of barbarians? |
| 36338 | How would the Americans receive it? |
| 36338 | How would the gods my righteous toils succeed, And bless the hand that made a stranger bleed? |
| 36338 | I done to- day? |
| 36338 | If an Indian injures me, does it follow that I may revenge that injury on all Indians? |
| 36338 | In Europe, if the French, who are white people, should injure the Dutch, are they to revenge it on the English, because they too are white people? |
| 36338 | Is not the Parliament? |
| 36338 | Now is not the_ want of sense_( where a man is so unfortunate as to want it) some apology for his_ want of modesty_? |
| 36338 | One of his friends, who sat next to me, said,"Franklin, why do you continue to side with those Quakers? |
| 36338 | The others said,"Let us row, what signifies it?" |
| 36338 | Those whom you have disarmed to satisfy groundless suspicions, will you leave them exposed to the armed madmen of your country? |
| 36338 | What could children of a year old, babes at the breast, what could they do, that they too must be shot and hatcheted? |
| 36338 | What could he or the other poor old men and women do? |
| 36338 | What is your opinion they would do? |
| 36338 | Will the people that have begun to manufacture decline it? |
| 36338 | You have imbrued your hands in innocent blood; how will you make them clean? |
| 36338 | _ A._ About three hundred thousand, from sixteen to sixty years of age? |
| 36338 | _ A._ I suppose there may be about one hundred and sixty thousand? |
| 36338 | _ A._ Suppose a military force sent into America, they will find nobody in arms; what are they then to do? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ And have they not still the same respect for Parliament? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ And what is their temper now? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are not all the people very able to pay those taxes? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are not ferrymen in America obliged, by act of Parliament, to carry over the posts without pay? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are not the colonies, from their circumstances, very able to pay the stamp duty? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are not the lower rank of people more at their ease in America than in England? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are not you concerned in the management of the_ postoffice_ in America? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are there any words in the charter that justify that construction? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are there any_ fulling- mills_ there? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are there no means of obliging them to erase those resolutions? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are they acquainted with the declaration of rights? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Are they as much dissatisfied with the stamp duty as the English? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Before there was any thought of the stamp- act, did they wish for a representation in Parliament? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ But can you name any act of Assembly, or public act of any of your governments, that made such distinction? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ But do they not consider the regulations of the postoffice, by the act of last year, as a tax? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ But is not the postoffice, which they have long received, a tax as well as a regulation? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ But must not he pay an additional postage for the distance to such inland town? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ But suppose Great Britain should be engaged in a_ war in Europe_, would North America contribute to the support of it? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ But what do you imagine they will think were the motives of repealing the act? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ But who are to be the judges of that extraordinary occasion? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ But will not this increase of expense be a means Of lessening the number of lawsuits? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Can any private person take up those letters, and carry them as directed? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Can the postmaster answer delivering the letter, without being paid such additional postage? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Can there be wool and manufacture enough in one or two years? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Can they possibly find wool enough in North America? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Can we, at this distance, be competent judges of what favours are necessary? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Did the secretary of state ever write for_ money_ for the crown? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Did you ever hear the authority of Parliament to make laws for America questioned till lately? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Did you never hear that a great quantity of_ stockings_ were contracted for, for the army, during the war, and manufactured in Philadelphia? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do n''t you know that the money arising from the stamps was all to be laid out in America? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do n''t you know that there is, in the Pennsylvania charter, an express reservation of the right of Parliament to lay taxes there? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do n''t you think cloth from England absolutely necessary to them? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do n''t you think the distribution of stamps_ by post_ to all the inhabitants very practicable, if there was no opposition? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do not letters often come into the postoffices in America directed to some inland town where no post goes? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do not you think the people of America would submit to pay the stamp duty if it was moderated? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do the Americans pay any considerable taxes among themselves? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do they consider the postoffice as a tax or as a regulation? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do you know anything of the_ rate of exchange_ in Pennsylvania, and whether it has fallen lately? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Do you think it right that America should be protected by this country, and pay no part of the expense? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Does not the severity of the winter in the northern colonies occasion the wool to be of bad quality? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Does this reasoning hold in the case of a duty laid on the produce of their lands_ exported_? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ For what purposes are those taxes laid? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Have any number of the Germans seen service as soldiers in Europe? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Have you heard of any difficulties lately laid on the Spanish trade? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ How can the commerce be affected? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ How long are those taxes to continue? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ How many white men do you suppose there are in North America? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ How, then, can they think they have a right to levy money for the crown, or for any other than local purposes? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ How, then, could the Assembly of Pennsylvania assert, that laying a tax on them by the stamp- act was an infringement of their rights? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ How, then, do you pay the balance? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ If the Parliament should repeal the stamp- act, will the Assembly of Pennsylvania rescind their resolutions? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ If the act is not repealed, what do you think will be the consequence? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ If the stamp- act should be repealed, and the crown should make a requisition to the colonies for a sum of money, would they grant it? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ In what light did the people of America use to consider the Parliament of Great Britain? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ In what proportion had population increased in America? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Is it in their power to do without them? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Is it not necessary to send troops to America, to defend the Americans against the Indians? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Is it their interest not to take them? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Is it their interest to make cloth at home? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Is not this a tax on the ferrymen? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Is there a power on earth that can force them to erase them? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Is there not a balance of trade due from the colonies where the troops are posted, that will bring back the money to the old colonies? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Is this all you mean; a letter from the secretary of state? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ On what do you found your opinion, that the people in America made any such distinction? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Suppose an act of internal regulations connected with a tax, how would they receive it? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Then no regulation with a tax would be submitted to? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ To what cause is that owing? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Was it an opinion in America before 1763, that the Parliament had no right to lay taxes and duties there? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Was it not expected that the debt would have been sooner discharged? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Was not the_ late war with_ the Indians,_ since the peace with France_, a war for America only? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Were you not reimbursed by Parliament? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What are the body of the people in the colonies? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What are the present taxes in Pennsylvania, laid by the laws of the colony? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What do you mean by its inexpediency? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What do you think a sufficient military force to protect the distribution of the stamps in every part of America? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What do you think is the reason that the people in America increase faster than in England? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What is now their pride? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What is the number of men in America able to bear arms, or of disciplined militia? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What is the usual constitutional manner of calling on the colonies for aids? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What is your opinion of a future tax, imposed on the same principle with that of the stamp- act? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What may be the amount of one year''s imports into Pennsylvania from Britain? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What may be the amount of the produce of your province exported to Britain? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What number of Germans? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What number of them are Quakers? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What number of white inhabitants do you think there are in Pennsylvania? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What used to be the pride of the Americans? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ What will be the opinion of the Americans on those resolutions? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ When did you communicate that instruction to the minister? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ When did you receive the instructions you mentioned? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ When money has been raised in the colonies upon requisition, has it not been granted to the king? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Why do you think so? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Why do you think so? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Why may it not? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Why so? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Why so? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Will it not take a long time to establish that manufacture among them; and must they not, in the mean while, suffer greatly? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Would it be most for the interest of Great Britain to employ the hands of Virginia in tobacco or in manufactures? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Would it not have the effect of excessive usury? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Would the people at Boston discontinue their trade? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Would the repeal of the stamp- act be any discouragement of your manufactures? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Would they do this for a British concern, as suppose a war in some part of Europe that did not affect them? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Would they grant money alone, if called on? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ Would they suffer the produce of their lands to rot? |
| 36338 | _ Q._ You have said that you pay heavy taxes in Pennsylvania; what do they amount to in the pound? |
| 36338 | and would not the lines stand more justly thus? |
| 36338 | had you not better sell them? |
| 36338 | or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance? |
| 48138 | What,say they,"shall we lay out our money to protect the trade of Quakers? |
| 48138 | Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden''s fortune? 48138 Your reasons for that opinion?" |
| 48138 | Your reasons for that opinion? |
| 48138 | ''Methinks I hear some of you say,"must a man afford himself no leisure?" |
| 48138 | ''So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? |
| 48138 | Admit it to be true, though perhaps the amazing increase of English consumption might stop most of it here,--to whose profit is this to redound? |
| 48138 | Among these witty gentlemen let us take a view of Ridentius: what a contemptible figure does he make with his train of paltry admirers? |
| 48138 | An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set: what think you of the odd half of a pair of scissars? |
| 48138 | And are not the public the only judges what share of reputation they think proper to allow any man? |
| 48138 | And are not the_ royal_ governments around us exempt from_ these_ misfortunes? |
| 48138 | And are ye still? |
| 48138 | And can you really, gentlemen, find matter of triumph in this_ rejection_ as you call it? |
| 48138 | And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of parliament? |
| 48138 | And do those of you, gentlemen, reproach me with this, who, among near four thousand voters, had scarcely a score more than I had? |
| 48138 | And if I draw ill ones, can they fit any but those that deserve them? |
| 48138 | And is our_ country_, any more than our city, altogether free from danger? |
| 48138 | And others who live in the country, when they are told of the danger the city is in from attempts by sea, may say,"What is that to us? |
| 48138 | And ought any but such to be concerned that they have their deserts? |
| 48138 | And possess it they did, even without a standing army:( what can be a stronger proof of the security of their possession?) |
| 48138 | And what are the advantages they may reasonably expect? |
| 48138 | And what hast thou here?_[ Would to God no such priests were to be found among us]. |
| 48138 | And why do you think I have a fixed enmity to the proprietaries? |
| 48138 | And why may not a man use the boldness and freedom of telling his friends, that their long visits sometimes incommode him? |
| 48138 | And why"except the Indian ravages,"is a_ little intermission_ to be denominated"the most perfect tranquillity?" |
| 48138 | And would it not seem less right, if the charge and labour of gaining the additional territory to Britain had been borne by the settlers themselves? |
| 48138 | And would they not then object to such a duty? |
| 48138 | And yet is there not too much of it? |
| 48138 | And yet_ here_ was no proprietary clamour about bribery,& c. And why so? |
| 48138 | And, after all, of what use is this pride of appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? |
| 48138 | Are not the people of city and country connected as relations, both by blood and marriage, and in friendships equally dear? |
| 48138 | Are there not pamphlets continually written, and daily sold in our streets, to justify and encourage it? |
| 48138 | Are these agents or commissaries to try causes where life is concerned? |
| 48138 | Are they not likewise united in interest, and mutually useful and necessary to each other? |
| 48138 | Are you then your own master? |
| 48138 | As how? |
| 48138 | But are these the sentiments of true Pensylvanians, of fellow- countrymen, or even of men, that have common sense or goodness? |
| 48138 | But if I go into a white man''s house at Albany, and ask for victuals and drink, they say, Where is your money? |
| 48138 | But is it not a fact known to you all, that the assembly_ did_ endeavour to strengthen the hands of the government? |
| 48138 | But is this right reasoning? |
| 48138 | But what does that avail to you, who are in the proprietary interest? |
| 48138 | But what is the testimony of the assembly; who in his opinion are equally rash, ignorant, and inconsiderate with the petitioners? |
| 48138 | But what will fame be to an ephemera, who no longer exists? |
| 48138 | By the colony assemblies, or by parliament? |
| 48138 | By whom are they to be repealed? |
| 48138 | By whom were they quieted? |
| 48138 | Called in again._]_ Q._ Is the American stamp act an equal tax on the country? |
| 48138 | Can no one bear it for me? |
| 48138 | Can this be from proprietary partizans? |
| 48138 | Can you really, gentlemen, by no means conceive, that proprietary government disagreements are incident to the nature of proprietary governments? |
| 48138 | Could he do this in Ireland? |
| 48138 | Could_ you_, much respected[ Mr. Norris], go but a little farther, and disapprove the application itself? |
| 48138 | Did you embrace it, and how often? |
| 48138 | Do_ you_ intend to give them up, when at the next election_ you_ are made assemblymen? |
| 48138 | For he govern''d his passions,& c. What signifies our wishing? |
| 48138 | For what have I done, that they should think unfavourably of me? |
| 48138 | From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? |
| 48138 | Has the government sufficient strength, even with all its supports, to venture on the apprehending and punishment of those notorious offenders? |
| 48138 | Have we then any thing that we can call our own? |
| 48138 | Have you ever seen the barometer so low as of late? |
| 48138 | His circumstances are such, as only put him above necessity, without affording him many superfluities: yet who is greater than Cato? |
| 48138 | How different from this character is that of the good- natured, gay Eugenius? |
| 48138 | How many impertinencies do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike? |
| 48138 | How shall we ever be able to pay them? |
| 48138 | How then can my going to England prevent this accommodation? |
| 48138 | How very few of us continue so long? |
| 48138 | I suppose it can not exceed 40,000_l.__ Q._ How then do you pay the balance? |
| 48138 | If I know a man to be a designing knave, must I ask his consent, to bid my friends beware of him? |
| 48138 | If any thing is meant by asking, why any man''s picture should be published which he never sat for? |
| 48138 | If it has not, why are you angry at those who would strengthen its hands by a more immediate royal authority? |
| 48138 | If it has, why is not the thing done? |
| 48138 | If it is asked,_ What_ can such farmers raise, wherewith to pay for the manufactures they may want from us? |
| 48138 | If so, tell it us honestly beforehand, that we may know what we are to expect when we are about to choose you? |
| 48138 | If such should be the case, which God forbid, how soon may the mischief spread to our frontier countries? |
| 48138 | If then we consider and compare Britain and America, in these several particulars, upon the question,"To which is it safest to lend money?" |
| 48138 | If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? |
| 48138 | In fine, why should the countenance of a state be_ partially_ afforded to its people, unless it be most in favour of those who have most merit? |
| 48138 | In the mean time, why do you"believe it will preclude all_ accommodation_ with them on just and reasonable terms?" |
| 48138 | Is it as unpopular as it was at first? |
| 48138 | Is it not I, who, in the character of your physician, have saved you from the palsy, dropsy, and apoplexy? |
| 48138 | Is it right to encourage this monstrous deficiency of natural affection? |
| 48138 | Is not the parliament? |
| 48138 | Is not the whole province one body, united by living under the same laws, and enjoying the same privileges? |
| 48138 | Is our tranquillity more perfect now, than it was between the first riot and the second, or between the second and the third? |
| 48138 | Is there then the least hope remaining, that from that quarter any thing should arise for our security? |
| 48138 | It is true, that in some of the states there are parties and discords; but let us look back, and ask if we were ever without them? |
| 48138 | Must not the regret of our parents be excessive, at having placed so great a difference between sisters, who are so perfectly equal? |
| 48138 | Of what kinds of people are the members; landholders or traders? |
| 48138 | On whom may we fix our eyes with the least expectation, that they will do any thing for our security? |
| 48138 | Or can they be_ deprived_ of their charter rights without their consent?" |
| 48138 | Or, since they_ were not_ left there, why was the American dispute begun? |
| 48138 | Probably; but is there any case in any government where it is not possible to_ endeavour_ such a discovery? |
| 48138 | Shall we fight to defend Quakers? |
| 48138 | She may doubtless destroy them all; but if she wishes to recover our commerce, are these the probable means? |
| 48138 | Suppose either Indian or trader is dissatisfied with the tariff, and refuses barter on those terms, are the refusers to be compelled? |
| 48138 | That, at his honour''s instance, they prepared and passed in a few hours a bill for extending hither the act of parliament for dispersing rioters? |
| 48138 | The hasty gentleman, whose blood runs high, Who picks a quarrel, if you step awry, Who ca n''t a jest, or hint, or look endure: What''s he? |
| 48138 | The power of_ appointing public officers_ by the representatives of the people, which he so much extols, where is it now? |
| 48138 | Vos cunctamini etiam nunc,& dubitatis quid faciatis? |
| 48138 | Was it not worthy of his care, that the world should say he was an honest and a good man? |
| 48138 | Was it with an intent to reproach me thus publicly for accepting it? |
| 48138 | We all know how they were supported; but have they been_ fully_ supported? |
| 48138 | We can not all fly with our families; and if we could, how shall we subsist? |
| 48138 | We could not all conveniently start together: and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him? |
| 48138 | Wedderburn._ The address mentions certain papers: I could wish to be informed what are those papers? |
| 48138 | Well, Hans, says I, I hope you have agreed to give more than four shillings a pound? |
| 48138 | What are our poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much read, not read at all? |
| 48138 | What could they desire more? |
| 48138 | What do they do there?" |
| 48138 | What do they spend it in when they are here, but the produce and manufactures of this country;--and would they not do the same if they were at home? |
| 48138 | What have I done to merit these cruel sufferings? |
| 48138 | What is your opinion they would do? |
| 48138 | What makest thou in this place? |
| 48138 | What other moves can I make to support it, and to defend myself from his attacks?" |
| 48138 | What then could their lordships mean by the proposed amendment? |
| 48138 | What use can my adversary make of it to annoy me? |
| 48138 | What would you advise us to?'' |
| 48138 | What? |
| 48138 | When wilt thou be esteemed, regarded, and beloved like Cato? |
| 48138 | When wilt thou, among thy creatures, meet with that unfeigned respect and warm good- will that all men have for him? |
| 48138 | Where then shall we seek for succour and protection? |
| 48138 | Wherewith, they say, shall we show our loyalty to our gracious king, if our money is to be given by others, without asking our consent? |
| 48138 | While the mornings are long, and you have leisure to go abroad, what do you do? |
| 48138 | Who shall pay that expence? |
| 48138 | Why should it? |
| 48138 | Why then should we grieve, that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society? |
| 48138 | Why then were the French_ not left_ in Canada, at the peace of 1763? |
| 48138 | Why was it so long delayed? |
| 48138 | Why was the bringing and the delivery of such orders so long_ denied_? |
| 48138 | Why was this man received with such concurring respect from every person in the room, even from those, who had never known him or seen him before? |
| 48138 | Why were those healing instructions so long withheld and concealed from the people? |
| 48138 | Will any paper match him? |
| 48138 | Will not the colonies view it in this light? |
| 48138 | Will not the first effect of this be, an enhancing of the price of all foreign goods to the tradesman and farmer, who use or consume them? |
| 48138 | Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? |
| 48138 | Will the people that have begun to manufacture decline it? |
| 48138 | Will the wolves then protect the sheep, if they can but persuade them to give up their dogs? |
| 48138 | Would it not be better, to send the criminals into some civil well settled government or colony for trial, where good juries can be had? |
| 48138 | Would not the profits of the merchant and mariner be rather greater, and some addition made to our navigation, ships and seamen? |
| 48138 | Would this be right, even if the land were gained at the expence of the state? |
| 48138 | Would you have had your representatives give up those points? |
| 48138 | Would you know, how they forward the circulation of your fluids, in the very action of transporting you from place to place? |
| 48138 | Would you wish to see your great and amiable prince act a part that could not become a dey of Algiers? |
| 48138 | You ask, what I mean? |
| 48138 | You saw that we, who understand and practice those rules, believed all your stories, why do you refuse to believe ours?" |
| 48138 | Your reasons for that opinion? |
| 48138 | Your reasons for that opinion? |
| 48138 | [ 84]_ Q._ Do n''t you know that the money arising from the stamps was all to be laid out in America? |
| 48138 | [ 91]_ Q._ How much is the poll- tax in your province laid on unmarried men? |
| 48138 | [ 95]_ Q._ Would they do this for a British concern, as suppose a war in some part of Europe, that did not affect them? |
| 48138 | _ A._ Suppose a military force sent into America, they will find nobody in arms; what are they then to do? |
| 48138 | _ But what is the prudent policy, inculcated by the remarker to obtain this end, security of dominion over our colonies? |
| 48138 | _ Court._ Do you mean to found a charge upon them? |
| 48138 | _ Court._ Have you brought them? |
| 48138 | _ Court._ What time do you want? |
| 48138 | _ Franklin._--But do you charge among my crimes, that I return in a carriage from Mr. B----''s? |
| 48138 | _ Franklin._--How can you so cruelly sport with my torments? |
| 48138 | _ Franklin._--Is it possible? |
| 48138 | _ Franklin._--Not once? |
| 48138 | _ Franklin._--What then would you have me do with my carriage? |
| 48138 | _ Franklin._--Who is it that accuses me? |
| 48138 | _ Gout._--Sport? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ And have they not still the same respect for parliament? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ And is there not a tax laid there on their sugars exported? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ And what is their temper now? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are all parts of the colonies equally able to pay taxes? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are not all the people very able to pay those taxes? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are not ferrymen in America obliged, by act of parliament, to carry over the posts without pay? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are not the colonies, from their circumstances, very able to pay the stamp duty? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are not the lower rank of people more at their ease in America than in England? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are not the majority landholders? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are not the people in the more northern colonies obliged to fodder their sheep all the winter? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are not the taxes in Pensylvania laid on unequally, in order to burthen the English trade; particularly the tax on professions and business? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are not you concerned in the management of the_ post- office_ in America? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are there any words in the charter that justify that construction? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are there any_ fulling- mills_ there? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are there any_ slitting- mills_ in America? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are there no means of obliging them to erase those resolutions? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are they acquainted with the declaration of rights? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are they as much dissatisfied with the stamp duty as the English? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Are you acquainted with Newfoundland? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Before there was any thought of the stamp act, did they wish for a representation in parliament? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ But can you name any act of assembly, or public act of any of your governments, that made such distinction? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ But do they not consider the regulations of the post- office, by the act of last year, as a tax? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ But is not the post- office, which they have long received, a tax as well as a regulation? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ But must not he pay an additional postage for the distance to such inland town? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ But suppose Great Britain should be engaged in a_ war in Europe_, would North America contribute to the support of it? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ But what do you imagine they will think were the motives of repealing the act? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ But who are to be the judges of that extraordinary occasion? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ But who is to judge of that, Britain or the colony? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ But will not this increase of expence be a means of lessening the number of law- suits? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Can any private person take up those letters and carry them as directed? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Can any thing less than a military force carry the stamp act into execution? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Can the post- master answer delivering the letter, without being paid such additional postage? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Can there be wool and manufacture enough in one or two years? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Can they possibly find wool enough in North America? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Can we, at this distance, be competent judges of what favours are necessary? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Can you disperse the stamps by post in Canada? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Did the Americans ever dispute the controling power of parliament to regulate the commerce? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Did the secretary of state ever write for_ money_ for the crown? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Did you ever hear the authority of parliament to make laws for America questioned till lately? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Did you never hear that Maryland, during the last war, had refused to furnish a quota towards the common defence? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Did you never hear, that a great quantity of stockings were contracted for, for the army, during the war, and manufactured in Philadelphia? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do n''t you know that there is, in the Pensylvanian charter, an express reservation of the right of parliament to lay taxes there? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do n''t you think cloth from England absolutely necessary to them? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do n''t you think the distribution of stamps_ by post_ to all the inhabitants very practicable, if there was no opposition? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do not letters often come into the post- offices in America directed to some inland town where no post goes? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do not the resolutions of the Pensylvania assembly say-- all taxes? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do not they, as much as possible, shift the tax off from the land, to ease that, and lay the burthen heavier on trade? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do not you think the people of America would submit to pay the stamp duty, if it was moderated? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do the Americans pay any considerable taxes among themselves? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do they consider the post- office as a tax, or as a regulation? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do they not say, that neither external nor internal taxes can be laid on them by parliament? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do you know any thing of the_ rate of exchange in_ Pensylvania, and whether it has fallen lately? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do you know whether there are any post- roads on that island? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do you remember the abolishing of the paper- currency in New England, by act of assembly? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do you say there were no more than three hundred regular troops employed in the late Indian war? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do you think it right that America should be protected by this country, and pay no part of the expence? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do you think the assemblies have a right to levy money on the subject there, to grant_ to the crown_? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Do you think then that the taking possession of the king''s territorial rights, and_ strengthening the frontiers_, is not an American interest? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Does not the severity of the winter, in the northern colonies, occasion the wool to be of bad quality? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Does the distinction between internal and external taxes exist in the words of the charter? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Does this reasoning hold in the case of a duty laid on the produce of their lands_ exported_? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ For what purposes are those taxes laid? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ From the thinness of the back settlements, would not the stamp act be extremely inconvenient to the inhabitants, if executed? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Have any number of the Germans seen service, as soldiers, in Europe? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Have not instructions from hence been sometimes sent over to governors, highly oppressive and unpolitical? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Have not some governors dispensed with them for that reason? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Have not the assemblies in the West Indies the same natural rights with those in North America? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Have you heard of any difficulties lately laid on the Spanish trade? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Have you not seen the resolutions of the Massachusett''s Bay assembly? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ How can the commerce be affected? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ How is the assembly composed? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ How long are those taxes to continue? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ How many ships are there laden annually in North America with_ flax- seed_ for Ireland? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ How many white men do you suppose there are in North America? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ How then can they think they have a right to levy money for the crown, or for any other than local purposes? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ How then could the assembly of Pensylvania assert, that laying a tax on them by the stamp act was an infringement of their rights? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ If it should not, ought not the right to be in Great Britain of applying a remedy? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ If the act is not repealed, what do you think will be the consequences? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ If the parliament should repeal the stamp act, will the assembly of Pensylvania rescind their resolutions? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ If the same colony should say, neither tax nor imposition could be laid, does not that province hold the power of parliament can lay neither? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ If the stamp- act should be repealed, and the crown should make a requisition to the colonies for a sum of money, would they grant it? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ In the more southern colonies, as in Virginia, do n''t you know, that the wool is coarse, and only a kind of hair? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ In what light did the people of America use to consider the parliament of Great Britain? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ In what proportion hath population increased in America? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is it in their power to do without them? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is it not necessary to send troops to America, to defend the Americans against the Indians? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is it their interest not to take them? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is it their interest to make cloth at home? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is not the duty paid on the tobacco exported, a duty of that kind? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is not the post- office rate an internal tax laid by act of parliament? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is not this a tax on the ferrymen? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is there a power on earth that can force them to erase them? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is there not a balance of trade due from the colonies where the troops are posted, that will bring back the money to the old colonies? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Is this all you mean; a letter from the secretary of state? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ On what do you found your opinion, that the people in America made any such distinction? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Suppose an act of internal regulations connected with a tax, how would they receive it? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Then may they not, by the same interpretation, object to the parliament''s right of external taxation? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Then no regulation with a tax would be submitted to? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ To what causes is that owing? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Was it an opinion in America before 1763, that the parliament had no right to lay taxes and duties there? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Was it not at that time a very unpopular law? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Was it not expected that the debt would have been sooner discharged? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Was it not proposed at a public meeting? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Was it not talked of in the other provinces as a proper measure, to apply to parliament to compel them? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Was not lieutenant- governor Hutchinson principally concerned in that transaction? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Was not the_ late war with the_ Indians,_ since the peace with France_, a war for America only? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Was not the_ scarcity of gold and silver_ an argument used against abolishing the paper? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Were you not reimbursed by parliament? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What are the body of the people in the colonies? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What are the present taxes in Pensylvania, laid by the laws of the colony? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What becomes of the flax that grows with that flax- seed? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What can the colonies mean then by imposition as distinct from taxes? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What do you mean by its inexpediency? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What do you think a sufficient military force to protect the distribution of the stamps in every part of America? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What do you think is the reason that the people in America increase faster than in England? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What is now their pride? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What is the annual amount of_ all_ the taxes in Pensylvania? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What is the number of men in America able to bear arms, or of disciplined militia? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What is the present opinion there of that law? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What is the usual constitutional manner of calling on the colonies for aids? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What is your opinion of a future tax, imposed on the same principle with that of the stamp act? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What may be the amount of one year''s imports into Pensylvania from Britain? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What number of Germans? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What number of them are Quakers? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What number of white inhabitants do you think there are in Pensylvania? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What then could occasion conversations on that subject before that time? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What used to be the pride of the Americans? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What was the temper of America towards Great Britain_ before the year_ 1763[87]? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ What will be the opinion of the Americans on those resolutions? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ When did you communicate that instruction to the minister? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ When did you receive the instructions you mentioned? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ When money has been raised in the colonies, upon requisitions, has it not been granted to the king? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Why do you think so? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Why do you think so? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Why may it not? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Why so? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Why so? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Will it not take a long time to establish that manufacture among them; and must they not in the mean while suffer greatly? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Would it be most for the interest of Great Britain, to employ the hands of Virginia in tobacco, or in manufactures? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Would it not have the effect of excessive usury? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Would the people at Boston discontinue their trade? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Would the repeal of the stamp act be any discouragement of your manufactures? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Would they grant money alone, if called on? |
| 48138 | _ Q._ Would they suffer the produce of their lands to rot? |
| 48138 | by a majority of those that were to be commanded nominating three for each office to the governor, of which three he might take the one he liked best? |
| 48138 | can this, gentlemen, be matter of triumph? |
| 48138 | for in politics( what can laws do without morals?) |
| 48138 | how will you steer your brittle bark between these rocks? |
| 48138 | how would the Americans receive it? |
| 48138 | my enemy in person? |
| 48138 | since you all mean the same thing? |
| 48138 | such"total disregard"of their humble applications to the throne? |
| 48138 | whether he eats his English cheese and butter, or drinks his English ale, at London or in Barbadoes? |