Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volum 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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Pàgina 3
... consideration of our arguments , than the indiscrimi- nate censures which may have sometimes been really cast on the whole body of West Indians . There may have been those who , suffering their passions to hurry them to hasty and ...
... consideration of our arguments , than the indiscrimi- nate censures which may have sometimes been really cast on the whole body of West Indians . There may have been those who , suffering their passions to hurry them to hasty and ...
Pàgina 7
... considerations arising out of the very nature of the case , or suggested by scrutinizing and laying toge- ther different assertions from our opponents . I then specified many general evils resulting from the nature of the system , and ...
... considerations arising out of the very nature of the case , or suggested by scrutinizing and laying toge- ther different assertions from our opponents . I then specified many general evils resulting from the nature of the system , and ...
Pàgina 12
... consideration of the planter's benefit , from stopping the importa- tions , does not interest me in any degree so much as that to be thence derived by the unhappy slaves . Losing by degrees the painful recollection of their na- tive and ...
... consideration of the planter's benefit , from stopping the importa- tions , does not interest me in any degree so much as that to be thence derived by the unhappy slaves . Losing by degrees the painful recollection of their na- tive and ...
Pàgina 18
... considerations , I now proceed to that part of the subject which , indeed , most interests my heart . Look to the continent of Africa , and there you will behold such a scene of horrours as no tongue can express , no imagination can ...
... considerations , I now proceed to that part of the subject which , indeed , most interests my heart . Look to the continent of Africa , and there you will behold such a scene of horrours as no tongue can express , no imagination can ...
Pàgina 20
... consideration that they are perpetrated by those who , instead of the despoilers and ravagers , ought to have been the guar- dians and protectors of their people . A chieftain is in want of European commodities , and being too weak or ...
... consideration that they are perpetrated by those who , instead of the despoilers and ravagers , ought to have been the guar- dians and protectors of their people . A chieftain is in want of European commodities , and being too weak or ...
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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...