"Our rulers (both here and in Great Britain) will now have leisure to attend to every part of our American polity; and…"

"Territory we do not want; having, it is probable, already more than we well know how to manage. Instead therefore of …"

"Were an impartial and competent observer of the state of society in these middle colonies asked, whence it happens th…"

"[Boucher admits that the use of slavery in the British colonies is better regulated than in other countries, but note…"

"In one essential point, I fear, we are all deficient: they are nowhere sufficiently instructed. I am far from recomme…"

"It is surprising what improper and indecent contentions these popular elections occasioned. I have oftener than once …"

"As for lawyers, they seemed to grow up spontaneously; many of the first name and note in that profession were men wit…"

"That the people of America should be severed from Great Britain, even your fellow Congressionalists from the North wo…"

"When young persons are summoned from this world ere they have mingled in its sinful pursuits, they can be readily yie…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"