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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Johnson, Samuel. Taxation No Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and...

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Johnson, Samuel. Taxation No Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. [4], 91 pages. 8vo, later decorative wrappers, chipped and worn; foxing, heaviest to first few leaves. London, 1775

The third edition, printed the same year as the first, of this famous political pamphlet by lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Johnson writes in response to the protests of the American colonies which kicked off the American Revolution. "That the Americans are able to bear taxation is indubitable; that their refusal may be over-ruled is highly probable; but power is no sufficient evidence of truth. Let us examine our own claim, and the objections of the recusants, with caution proportioned to the event of the decision, which must convict one party of robbery, or the other of rebellion." Adams, American Controversy 75-69c; Sabin 36303.

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Johnson, Samuel. Taxation No Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. [4], 91 pages. 8vo, later decorative wrappers, chipped and worn; foxing, heaviest to first few leaves. London, 1775

The third edition, printed the same year as the first, of this famous political pamphlet by lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Johnson writes in response to the protests of the American colonies which kicked off the American Revolution. "That the Americans are able to bear taxation is indubitable; that their refusal may be over-ruled is highly probable; but power is no sufficient evidence of truth. Let us examine our own claim, and the objections of the recusants, with caution proportioned to the event of the decision, which must convict one party of robbery, or the other of rebellion." Adams, American Controversy 75-69c; Sabin 36303.

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