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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 8: American political writing, 1760-1789 (search)
ty of Paris, ceding to Great Britain all the vast possessions of France on the mainland of North America, together with Florida and other Spanish territory east of the Mississippi, was concluded 10 February, 1763. On the 23d of that month, Charles Townshend became first lord of trade, with the oversight of colonial administration, in the short-lived ministry of Bute, and some far-reaching changes in the colonial system were presently announced. The salaries of governors and judges, hitherto p and readjusted the tea duties in the interest of the hard-pressed East India Company. The colonies, in resisting the Stamp Act, had dwelt upon the unconstitutionality of internal taxation — by a Parliament in which they were not represented. Townshend now sought to turn the tables by imposing the external taxes which he professed to think the colonies, by inference, had conceded the right of Parliament to impose. The passage of the Townshend acts revived, though to a. less wide extent, th
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
tson, Bishop, 109 Time, 263, 270 n., 271 Times, the (Rev. Benjamin Church), 171 Times (Peter Markoe), 175 Times or life in New York, the, 228 Timon of Athens, 12 Tippet, Mehetable, 199 To a man of ninety, 183 To a Robin, 178 To a waterfowl, 212, 266 To Cordelia, 173 To fancy, 178 Tompkins, Governor, 248 Tortesa, the Usurer, 230 To the inhabitants of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, 137 Tour on the Prairies, a, 209, 250 Town meeting, 173 Townshend, Charles, 126 Tract relative to the affair of Hutchinson's letters, 140 Transactions and collections of the American antiquarian Society, 12 n. Transient and permanent in Christianity, the, 344 Trash, 236 Travails of the intellect in the microcosm and MacROCOSMocosm, the, 82 Traveller, the, 233 Travels (William Bartram), 186, 192, 195-198 Travels (Bumaby), 205 Travels (Timothy Dwight), 187, 208, 212 Travels (Abbe Robin), 212 Travels through the interior parts of N