Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volum 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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Pàgina 34
... ment to any one , who being new to the discussion of this subject , should be told for the first time , that it had been sometimes attempted to be defended on the ground of humanity and benevolence . I do not know that it is necessary ...
... ment to any one , who being new to the discussion of this subject , should be told for the first time , that it had been sometimes attempted to be defended on the ground of humanity and benevolence . I do not know that it is necessary ...
Pàgina 40
... 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.
... 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
... ment , much more for so long a term , such a system of wickedness ; but let it be said in excuse for Den- mark , that she knew but little of its enormity in com- parison with us ; and that she also , with somewhat more colour of ...
... ment , much more for so long a term , such a system of wickedness ; but let it be said in excuse for Den- mark , that she knew but little of its enormity in com- parison with us ; and that she also , with somewhat more colour of ...
Pàgina 65
... ment from their masters , which so far from diminish- ing , will rather increase their real power and authority . When this happy change of system shall have arrived , you will be able to depend on the Creole blacks for the defence of ...
... ment from their masters , which so far from diminish- ing , will rather increase their real power and authority . When this happy change of system shall have arrived , you will be able to depend on the Creole blacks for the defence of ...
Pàgina 68
... ment . I remember to have once heard , or read , long be- fore the present question was agitated , a well known story of an African , who was of the first rank in his own country and a man of letters . He was taken in one of those ...
... ment . I remember to have once heard , or read , long be- fore the present question was agitated , a well known story of an African , who was of the first rank in his own country and a man of letters . He was taken in one of those ...
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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...