Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... carried on by British subjects for the purpose of obtaining slaves , on the coast of Africa , ought to be abolished . " Notwithstanding the eloquence and influence both of the ministry and opposition were enlisted in its be- half , the ...
... carried on by British subjects for the purpose of obtaining slaves , on the coast of Africa , ought to be abolished . " Notwithstanding the eloquence and influence both of the ministry and opposition were enlisted in its be- half , the ...
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... carried into ex- ecution , be abundantly operative in another direction . If you were to give them the protection of laws , not nominally but really , not the shadow but the sub . It stance of civil rights , you would awaken in 8 MR ...
... carried into ex- ecution , be abundantly operative in another direction . If you were to give them the protection of laws , not nominally but really , not the shadow but the sub . It stance of civil rights , you would awaken in 8 MR ...
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... carried on . We have seen from the accounts upon your table how small a part it constitutes of the trade of Bristol and of Liverpool ; and that it has become less profitable of late , cannot be denied by those gentlemen who as- serted ...
... carried on . We have seen from the accounts upon your table how small a part it constitutes of the trade of Bristol and of Liverpool ; and that it has become less profitable of late , cannot be denied by those gentlemen who as- serted ...
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... carry great reputation , for , by the destruction of this trade , he relinquished his own private interests for the sake of publick justice and humanity ; and I have a natural propensity to wish the king of Dahomey well , since he has ...
... carry great reputation , for , by the destruction of this trade , he relinquished his own private interests for the sake of publick justice and humanity ; and I have a natural propensity to wish the king of Dahomey well , since he has ...
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... carried off by fraud or force ; and he dreads to come home again , lest , on his re- turn , he should find his hut a heap of ruins , and his family torn away into perpetual exile . Distrust and terrour every where prevail , and the ...
... carried off by fraud or force ; and he dreads to come home again , lest , on his re- turn , he should find his hut a heap of ruins , and his family torn away into perpetual exile . Distrust and terrour every where prevail , and the ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 389 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Seite 380 - We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...