Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volum 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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Pàgina 6
... Europe ? They send across the Atlantick declarations and directions dic- tated by the humanity of their own minds : but the execution of these must be left to persons of a de- scription altogether different . This forms a very leading ...
... Europe ? They send across the Atlantick declarations and directions dic- tated by the humanity of their own minds : but the execution of these must be left to persons of a de- scription altogether different . This forms a very leading ...
Pàgina 20
... European commodities , and being too weak or too tinid to attack his neigbours , he sends a party of soldiers by night to one of his own defence- less villages ; they set fire to it , they seize the mise- rable inhabitants as they are ...
... European commodities , and being too weak or too tinid to attack his neigbours , he sends a party of soldiers by night to one of his own defence- less villages ; they set fire to it , they seize the mise- rable inhabitants as they are ...
Pàgina 38
... European artists would not be put to it to imitate them ; and indeed if they could , and were no better paid than the negroes , they would be obliged to live on dry bread . " " The people of Fida are so strongly bent on trade and ...
... European artists would not be put to it to imitate them ; and indeed if they could , and were no better paid than the negroes , they would be obliged to live on dry bread . " " The people of Fida are so strongly bent on trade and ...
Pàgina 40
... , and not at the punish- ment of a crime . " Loyer affirms , that " the king of Sain on the least pretence sells his subjects for European goods . He is so tyrannically severe , that he makes a whole 40 MR . WILBERFORCE'S SPEECH ON THE.
... , and not at the punish- ment of a crime . " Loyer affirms , that " the king of Sain on the least pretence sells his subjects for European goods . He is so tyrannically severe , that he makes a whole 40 MR . WILBERFORCE'S SPEECH ON THE.
Pàgina 43
... Europe of the enormities of the slave trade , and strive to prevail on them to desist from it ; whereas we do the very reverse ; we sanction it by our example , we push it to an unparalleled extent , and furnish them with this very ...
... Europe of the enormities of the slave trade , and strive to prevail on them to desist from it ; whereas we do the very reverse ; we sanction it by our example , we push it to an unparalleled extent , and furnish them with this very ...
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Pàgina 42 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Pàgina 389 - Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of Popery and the Inquisition, if these more than Popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us...
Pàgina 389 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Pàgina 380 - We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much.
Pàgina 381 - You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Pàgina 385 - In a just and necessary war, to maintain the rights or honour of my country I would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this, unjust in its principle, impracticable in its means, and ruinous in its consequences, I would not contribute a single effort nor a single shilling. I do not call for vengeance on the heads of those who have been guilty; I only recommend to them to make their retreat. Let them walk off, and let them make haste, or they may be sure that speedy and...
Pàgina 386 - Lords, since they had neither sagacity to foresee, nor justice nor humanity to shun, these oppressive calamities; since not even severe experience can make them feel, nor the imminent ruin of their country awaken them from their stupefaction, the guardian care of parliament must interpose.
Pàgina 379 - Paris they transact the reciprocal interests of America and France. Can there be a more mortifying insult? Can even our ministers sustain a more humiliating disgrace ? Do they dare to resent it? Do they presume even to hint a vindication of their honor, and the dignity of the state, by requiring the dismission of the plenipotentiaries of America...