Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volum 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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Pàgina 2
... circumstances , illustrative of the slave trade , concluded with declaring that no considerable inconvenience would result from its discon- tinuance . These propositions were cordially defended by all the leading members of the house ...
... circumstances , illustrative of the slave trade , concluded with declaring that no considerable inconvenience would result from its discon- tinuance . These propositions were cordially defended by all the leading members of the house ...
Pàgina 5
... circumstances of the present case . It has been justly remarked , that aristocracy is a worse form of government than monarchy , because the people are subject to many tyrants instead of one ; but if this be true , what shall we say to ...
... circumstances of the present case . It has been justly remarked , that aristocracy is a worse form of government than monarchy , because the people are subject to many tyrants instead of one ; but if this be true , what shall we say to ...
Pàgina 7
... circumstances and esti- mate their amount , and you will naturally conclude , that the situation of the slaves in the West Indies must indeed be deplorable . I shall not here detail the particulars of their state , having done it so ...
... circumstances and esti- mate their amount , and you will naturally conclude , that the situation of the slaves in the West Indies must indeed be deplorable . I shall not here detail the particulars of their state , having done it so ...
Pàgina 11
... circumstances , and the favourable opportu- nity afforded by these divisions in which their masters were occupied , produced a general rising of the slaves , who had rebelled before in conjunctures less suited to their purpose ? They ...
... circumstances , and the favourable opportu- nity afforded by these divisions in which their masters were occupied , produced a general rising of the slaves , who had rebelled before in conjunctures less suited to their purpose ? They ...
Pàgina 14
... circumstances , I must now insist on is , that five years importations have since taken place . Had there been any small errour in the calculations of my right honourable friend , or had I strained my sub- sidiary arguments a little too ...
... circumstances , I must now insist on is , that five years importations have since taken place . Had there been any small errour in the calculations of my right honourable friend , or had I strained my sub- sidiary arguments a little too ...
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Passatges populars
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...