Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volum 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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Pàgina 2
... taken of the subject , be- fore the year 1791 , when Mr. Wilberforce moved " that the trade carried on by British subjects for the purpose of obtaining slaves , on the coast of Africa , ought to be abolished . " Notwithstanding the ...
... taken of the subject , be- fore the year 1791 , when Mr. Wilberforce moved " that the trade carried on by British subjects for the purpose of obtaining slaves , on the coast of Africa , ought to be abolished . " Notwithstanding the ...
Pàgina 14
... taken place under every possible circum- stance of disadvantage ; that the various evils under which the slaves laboured , and above all the general inattention to the breeding system , would have led us to expect a great decrease ; but ...
... taken place under every possible circum- stance of disadvantage ; that the various evils under which the slaves laboured , and above all the general inattention to the breeding system , would have led us to expect a great decrease ; but ...
Pàgina 15
... taken up by a gentlemen whose services , in the whole of this great cause , can never be overrated . I need hardly say I allude to Mr. Clarkson . He asserted , as the result of a long and laborious inquiry , that of the sailors em ...
... taken up by a gentlemen whose services , in the whole of this great cause , can never be overrated . I need hardly say I allude to Mr. Clarkson . He asserted , as the result of a long and laborious inquiry , that of the sailors em ...
Pàgina 16
... taken out . This last circumstance was attempted to be accounted for , from the natural capriciousness of sailors ; and it was said that they ran away in as great number from the West India as from the Guinea ships . The direct contrary ...
... taken out . This last circumstance was attempted to be accounted for , from the natural capriciousness of sailors ; and it was said that they ran away in as great number from the West India as from the Guinea ships . The direct contrary ...
Pàgina 26
... taken the captain and healthy part of the crew ) were refused by the owners this wretch- ed compensation for all their danger and sufferings . Glad am I to say they obtained a verdict . I beg the committee will bear in mind the whole of ...
... taken the captain and healthy part of the crew ) were refused by the owners this wretch- ed compensation for all their danger and sufferings . Glad am I to say they obtained a verdict . I beg the committee will bear in mind the whole of ...
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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...