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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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winged ministers of vengeance, in those days, the fast warships of the British Government.
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your bolts in their pounces, your thunderbolts in their hold, referring to the cannons carried by the British warships.
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“So far shalt thou go, and no farther,” possibly a reminiscence of Job XXXVIII, 11; “Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.”
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to truck and huckster, to give in exchange, or deal in or bargain over in a petty way.
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Sultan, referring back to “the Turk” of a few, lines back.
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with a loose rein, loosely, not strictly.
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Spain, in her provinces . At that time Spain possessed Peru, the greater part of South America, the country west and north of the Gulf of Mexico, and the greater part of the West Indies.
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capital, leading, chief, principal.
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unhappily meeting, coming into direct conflict.
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