Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volum 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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Pàgina 8
... evidence ; the effects of which , have been frankly avowed by many of our op- ponents themselves , and are indeed so obvious as to render it superfluous to insist on them . What would be the situation of the bulk of the people in this ...
... evidence ; the effects of which , have been frankly avowed by many of our op- ponents themselves , and are indeed so obvious as to render it superfluous to insist on them . What would be the situation of the bulk of the people in this ...
Pàgina 17
... evidence it abundantly appears , that the opening of new plantations with imported Africans is a system the most ruinous to the individuals con- cerned ; and the intelligent reasonings of Mr. Irvine VOL . V. D must have convinced the ...
... evidence it abundantly appears , that the opening of new plantations with imported Africans is a system the most ruinous to the individuals con- cerned ; and the intelligent reasonings of Mr. Irvine VOL . V. D must have convinced the ...
Pàgina 19
... evidence with a frankness and fairness which did him great honour , that the Dahomans were a very happy people . But how was I astonished , how did I admire the strange coincidence , when I found in this very king of Dahomey , the very ...
... evidence with a frankness and fairness which did him great honour , that the Dahomans were a very happy people . But how was I astonished , how did I admire the strange coincidence , when I found in this very king of Dahomey , the very ...
Pàgina 20
... evidence . Captain Wilson , a gen- tleman of unquestionable veracity and honour , saw armed parties going out to scour the country for many * Lord Muncaster's Historical Sketches of the Slave Trade , and of its effects in Africa ...
... evidence . Captain Wilson , a gen- tleman of unquestionable veracity and honour , saw armed parties going out to scour the country for many * Lord Muncaster's Historical Sketches of the Slave Trade , and of its effects in Africa ...
Pàgina 21
With Prefatory Remarks Nathaniel Chapman. successive evenings . You have in the evidence more · detailed stories of this kind , which cannot but affect the hardest heart . We are told perpetually of villages half consumed , and bearing ...
With Prefatory Remarks Nathaniel Chapman. successive evenings . You have in the evidence more · detailed stories of this kind , which cannot but affect the hardest heart . We are told perpetually of villages half consumed , and bearing ...
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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...