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Often appears with: political legitimacy and consent · crime and punishment · writs of assistance · tyranny and despotism · trade, markets, and merchants · the nature and attributes of God · stuart reign analogy · revenue estimates · religious establishments · private conversation with the king · oxford printing polybius (polybius) · mr. barnard librarian
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“Solomon, in all his glory, could not have said a wiser thing. If George 3d. had adopted this sentiment, what would now be the state of the world? Who can tell? or who can conjecture?” John Adams, Novanglus, and Massachusettensis · insight
“I rejoice that America has resisted; two millions of people reduced to servitude, would be fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.” John Adams, Novanglus, and Massachusettensis · observation
Paine says he will distinguish types of Tories and Whigs, accuses Lord Howe and British policy of killing, plundering, and enslaving, and cites alleged destruction in the Jerseys and a barbarous hanging order.
says that "the Quakers begin to speak openly of their attachment to the British Constitution." We are certain that we have many friends among them, and wish to know them. In some future paper I intend to distinguish between the different kind of persons who have been denominated Tories; for this I am clear in, that all are not so who have been called so, nor all men Whigs who were once thought so; and as I mean not …
In February 1767 Johnson recounts a remarkable private audience with King George III in the library at the Queen’s house, where they discuss Oxford libraries, Warburton and Lowth, journals, and Johnson’s proposed literary biography.
added, "P. S. I am going to part with my wife." Johnson then wrote to him, saying nothing of the note, but remonstrating with him against parting with his wife.' In February, 1767, there happened one of the most remarkable incidents of Johnson's life, which gratified his monarchical enthusiasm, and which he loved to relate with all its circumstances, when requested by his friends. This was his being honoured by a pr…
Boswell narrates the political controversy around Johnson’s pension after George III’s accession, defending it as honorary rather than a bribe, and quotes Johnson’s letter to the Earl of Bute for gratitude and delicacy.
[Page 374: Johnson's interview with Lord Bute. A.D. 1762.] Mr. Thomas Sheridan and Mr. Murphy, who then lived a good deal both with him and Mr. Wedderburne, told me, that they previously talked with Johnson upon this matter, and that it was perfectly understood by all parties that the pension was merely honorary. Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that Johnson called on him after his Majesty's intention had been notified …
Adams broadens the analogy, claiming the crown’s construction could justify sweeping legal and religious authority in America, then compares George III’s start to another Stuart reign and quotes Chatham’s view of resisting America with slaves.
of a son to a father, and that without the least affectation; while he baffled and confounded all his authorities, and confuted all his arguments and reduced him to silence. Indeed, upon the principle of construction, inference, analogy, or corollary, by which they extended these acts to America, they might have extended the jurisdiction of the court of king's bench, and court of common pleas, and all the sanguinary…
Adams contrasts King George II’s reported resistance to colonial taxation with George III’s embrace of revenue measures and writs of assistance, then estimates the molasses duty’s revenue as a tool for bribery and domination.
George 2d. was represented and believed in America to be an honest, well meaning man; and although he consented to this statute and others which he thought sanctioned by his predecessors, especially king William, yet it was reported and understood, that he had uniformly resisted the importunities of ministers, governors, planters, and projectors, to induce him to extend the system of taxation and revenue in America, …