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To exhibit at a glance the effect of the British navigation act, it was sufficient to compare the quantity of American and British tonnage employed in their intercourse with each other. The former in 1790 amounted to 43,000 tons, and the latter to 240,000 tons.
'What a long letter I have written you, and have not told you a word of my health, about which you inquired so particularly. Did Uncle Arthur tell you anything? I wish he had not, for it worries me to have people look, and act, and talk as if I were sick, when I am not.
Had I committed an unpopular act in protecting myself? Usually the conqueror in such an encounter is rather popular than otherwise, in the chivalric land of Louisiana. Why, then, did men look scowling upon me? What had I done to merit reproach? I had "whipped" a rude fellow, whom men esteemed a "bully;" and in self-defence had I acted.
On this point perhaps her friend might presently have been taken as relaxing. "It strikes me that even at that the advantages are mainly for others. I'm glad, God knows, that you're not also a young man." "Then we're suited all round." She had spoken with a promptitude that appeared again to act on him slightly as an irritant, for he met it with more delay by a long and derisive murmur.
Agreeable to this, one of king William's instructions to the parliament 1690, is, "You are to pass an act establishing that church government which is most agreeable to the inclinations of the people." Accordingly we have the Act 5th, Sess. 2d, 1690, settling Presbyterian church-government in the same form, and on the same footing.
You did not exactly act the part of one, it seems to me. Her Majesty's officials ought to have at least the manners of a gentleman." "You are hard on me, Captain Hosmer!" "A man is apt to be hard where his daughters are lightly treated." "I came to apologize. Do you wish me to see the young ladies in person?" "By no means! Keep as far from them as possible is all I ask. They have their friends."
The burgesses now thought that it would be well to carry a statement of their case before the king in council and the lords of trade. In February, 1757, they named their speaker, Isaac Norris, and Franklin to be their emissaries "to represent in England the unhappy situation of the province," and to seek redress by an act of Parliament. Norris, an aged man, begged to be excused; Franklin accepted.
I had by this time expended so much of my material that I was in the very act of preparing for another visit to the wreck to obtain more when poor Billy fell sick of some sort of a fever.
If he can be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded to ridicule religion or to act against it; he is too wise to be a dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity.
For that Act made it possible for the first time for the Liberal Home Rule Party to repeal the Act of Union without an appeal to the country.
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