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latitude, freedom from confinement or narrow limits; independence of action, thought, opinion, etc.
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the southern colonies, the thirteen colonies of. America were divided into north and south colonies.
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has a regular establishment, see note explaining “notwithstanding its legal rights.”
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they have a vast multitude of slaves . Johnson pertinently asks: “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from the drivers of slaves?”
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as broad and general as the air, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth , III, iv, 23.
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abject toil, servile toil or labor.
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Gothic, in the now obsolete sense of Teutonic or Germanic.
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such in our days were the Poles . Compare the Annual Register for 1763, p. 3, in a description of the Polish aristocracy: “Each noble Pole seems rather an independent sovereign than a citizen… . He is master of life and death on his own estate, all his tenants being in the strictest sense, his slaves.” In his speech Burke uses the past tense “were” because in 1772, when Poland was partly divided among Russia, Austria, and Prussia, the existing condition was destroyed.
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fortifies, strengthens.
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the deputies sent to Congress, the Continental Congress which met on September 5, 1774.
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smattering, slight superficial knowledge.
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tracts of popular devotion, books on religion.
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the Plantations, the American colonies.
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Blackstone’s “Commentaries.” Sir William Blackstone （1723-1780）, an eminent English jurist who wrote “Commentaries on the Laws of England.”
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General Gage, Thomas （1721-1787）, British gerneral in command of troops in America.
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successful chicane . In August, 1774, when the people of Boston held a town meeting, General Gage reminded the selectmen of the act of Parliament which made the holding of a town meeting dependent upon the governor’s permission. The selectmen replied that they were merely holding an adjourned meeting and referred the governor to the lawyers of the Crown. “By which means,” replied Gage, “you may keep your meeting alive these ten years.”
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my honorable and learned friend on the floor, Edward Thurlow, Attorney-General, a Tory leader and bitter enemy of the colonists.
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animadversion, remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure;adverse criticism; reproof; blame.
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will disdain that ground, will not present that argument as given in the lines above: “the rights of legislature, their obligations to obedience, and the penalties of rebellion.”
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emoluments, profits from office, employment, or labor;compensations; fees or salary.
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Abeunt studia in mores, studies are transmuted into character. Ovid, Heroides , XV,83，
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less mercurial cast, less acute, less dexterous, less sensitive to influences.
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augur, prophesy.
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snuff, scent, smell.
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tainted, imbued with something noxious, contaminated.
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