Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volum 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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Pàgina 10
... France for that purpose . The case was simply this . The free people of colour , though the privileges of citizens were bestowed on them by law a century ago , had never in fact been admitted to the enjoyment of them , but had been ...
... France for that purpose . The case was simply this . The free people of colour , though the privileges of citizens were bestowed on them by law a century ago , had never in fact been admitted to the enjoyment of them , but had been ...
Pàgina 59
... France or Spain were to intimate a wish that we should perform this office for their cri . minals ; I believe we should hardly find terms that could be strong enough to express our sense of the insult . But , for Africa - for its petty ...
... France or Spain were to intimate a wish that we should perform this office for their cri . minals ; I believe we should hardly find terms that could be strong enough to express our sense of the insult . But , for Africa - for its petty ...
Pàgina 66
... ourselves , is it possible that we can have any patience on the subject ? Apply the same case to France , which is happening every day in Africa . The difference , in fact , is only in the colour of the people 66 MR . FOX'S SPEECH ON THE.
... ourselves , is it possible that we can have any patience on the subject ? Apply the same case to France , which is happening every day in Africa . The difference , in fact , is only in the colour of the people 66 MR . FOX'S SPEECH ON THE.
Pàgina 67
... France , or in several of its provinces , a very great degree of animosity between the two contending parties . I believe , indeed , the accounts are much exaggerated . But let us suppose that at Marseilles , for instance , or some ...
... France , or in several of its provinces , a very great degree of animosity between the two contending parties . I believe , indeed , the accounts are much exaggerated . But let us suppose that at Marseilles , for instance , or some ...
Pàgina 70
... France with respect to her colonies ? It is critical and pecu- liar . One day they talk of liberty and are inclined to favour the negroes ; another day they check them- selves and suspend their measures . It is the timid wavering ...
... France with respect to her colonies ? It is critical and pecu- liar . One day they talk of liberty and are inclined to favour the negroes ; another day they check them- selves and suspend their measures . It is the timid wavering ...
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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...