 | John Fanning Watson - 1850 - 628 pàgines
...oppose the act, but the tide was too strong. The nation was provoked by American claims of independence, and all parties joined in resolving by this act to settle the point," &c. The sequel proved how fatal was the experiment ; while it helped them to feel our pulse, it also... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1861 - 650 pàgines
...preserved in the Biography of Jared Sparks — he says, " There is no use in any further opposing this act. We might as well have hindered the sun's setting....could not do. But since it is down, my friend, and may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light... | |
 | 1862 - 492 pàgines
...part. When the Stamp Act was -finally passed, he wrote to America, " We might as well have hindered-the sun's setting. That we could not do. But since it is down-, and it may be long before it rises again, lot us make as good a night of it as •we can. . . . Frugality... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1864 - 492 pàgines
...nation was provoked by American claims of Independence ; and all parties joined in resolving by this sot to settle the point. "We might as well have hindered...the sun's setting : that we could not do. But since 'tis down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 pàgines
...Jared Sparks — he says, " There is no use in any further opposing this act. We might as well havo hindered the sun's setting. That we could not do. But since it is down, my friend, and may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. Wo may still light... | |
 | 1879 - 508 pàgines
...But the Tide was too strong against us. The nation was provoked by American Claims of Independence & all Parties joined in resolving by this act to settle...the sun's setting. That we could not do. But since 'tis down my Friend and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1870 - 682 pàgines
...oppose the act, but the tide was too strong. The nation was provoked by American claims of independence, and all parties joined in resolving by this act to settle the point," (fee. The sequel proved how fatal was the experiment ; while it helped them to feel our pulse, it also... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1872 - 438 pàgines
...Franklin (who was then in London) said, ' The nation was provoked by American claims of independence ; and all parties joined in resolving by this Act to settle the point.' Colonel Barre* stood almost alone in spirited, and indeed violent resistance to the measure. Pitt was... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 656 pàgines
...preserved in the Biography of Jared Sparks — he says, " There is no use in any further opposing this act. We might as well have hindered the sun's setting....could not do. But since it is down, my friend, and may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1875 - 480 pàgines
...we will tax them." 2 " The nation was provoked by American claims of independence (of parliament), and all parties joined in resolving by this act to settle the point." 3 On the twenty-seventh of February, the Stamp Act passed the House of Commons. Rockingham had freely... | |
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But the Tide was too strong against us. The nation was provoked by American Claims of Independence, and all Parties joined in resolving by this act to settle the point. 
