Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volum 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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Pàgina 11
... thought the West India gentlemen would themselves have implored us , if we had entertained no such design , to arrest the further progress of this growing and pernicious mala- dy . Thus , sir , were the safety of the islands only in ...
... thought the West India gentlemen would themselves have implored us , if we had entertained no such design , to arrest the further progress of this growing and pernicious mala- dy . Thus , sir , were the safety of the islands only in ...
Pàgina 13
... thought necessary , I shall repeat and confirm it . It was then made out by my right honourable friend * with his usual accu- * Mr. Pitt . of racy , and that too from documents furnished by our ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE . 13.
... thought necessary , I shall repeat and confirm it . It was then made out by my right honourable friend * with his usual accu- * Mr. Pitt . of racy , and that too from documents furnished by our ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE . 13.
Pàgina 28
... thought hereby to recommend themselves to the sanction and countenance of a British house of com- mons . Excuse my warmth . It is impossible for any one , who has the feelings of a man , not to lose his temper in speaking of such ...
... thought hereby to recommend themselves to the sanction and countenance of a British house of com- mons . Excuse my warmth . It is impossible for any one , who has the feelings of a man , not to lose his temper in speaking of such ...
Pàgina 31
... thought too bad for one of those unhappy creatures to suffer , of whom I have this night the honour to be the advocate . There was a poor girl on board , about fifteen years of age who had unfortunately contracted a disorder , which ...
... thought too bad for one of those unhappy creatures to suffer , of whom I have this night the honour to be the advocate . There was a poor girl on board , about fifteen years of age who had unfortunately contracted a disorder , which ...
Pàgina 36
... thought him a little unreasonable in this opinion : however , he frankly gave us the grounds of it . I must beg the committee to hear them in his own words : " I had a Cabenda boy with me as a linguist , who informed me , one evening ...
... thought him a little unreasonable in this opinion : however , he frankly gave us the grounds of it . I must beg the committee to hear them in his own words : " I had a Cabenda boy with me as a linguist , who informed me , one evening ...
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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...