Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volum 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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Pàgina 53
... suppose , if you please , that the West India islands are likely to want slaves , on account of the disproportion of the sexes . How is this to be cured ? A right honourable gentleman proposes a bounty on an importation of females : or ...
... suppose , if you please , that the West India islands are likely to want slaves , on account of the disproportion of the sexes . How is this to be cured ? A right honourable gentleman proposes a bounty on an importation of females : or ...
Pàgina 58
... suppose , is so scrupulous , as to receive none that have not legally forfeited their liberty , leaving all the fraud of the slave trade to other countries . Britain , even on this supposition takes off no less than THIRTY or FORTY ...
... suppose , is so scrupulous , as to receive none that have not legally forfeited their liberty , leaving all the fraud of the slave trade to other countries . Britain , even on this supposition takes off no less than THIRTY or FORTY ...
Pàgina 59
... Suppose , now , the court of 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 ...
... Suppose , now , the court of 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 ...
Pàgina 64
... suppose that such a number of petitions from all parts of the king- dom could have been fabricated . If they were , why then have we not as many fabricated for the preser- vation of the trade as for the abolition ? " So we might ...
... suppose that such a number of petitions from all parts of the king- dom could have been fabricated . If they were , why then have we not as many fabricated for the preser- vation of the trade as for the abolition ? " So we might ...
Pàgina 67
... suppose that at Marseilles , for instance , or some other port , the aristocrats were to sell the democrats as fast as they could catch them ; and the democrats were to sell the aristocrats in like manner , and that we had ships ...
... suppose that at Marseilles , for instance , or some other port , the aristocrats were to sell the democrats as fast as they could catch them ; and the democrats were to sell the aristocrats in like manner , and that we had ships ...
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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...