Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... crime is punished by slavery , and false accusations are perpetually brought in order to obtain the price for which the party convicted is to be sold ; sometimes the judges have a considerable part of this very price , and universally ...
... crime is punished by slavery , and false accusations are perpetually brought in order to obtain the price for which the party convicted is to be sold ; sometimes the judges have a considerable part of this very price , and universally ...
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... crimes very hard , in order to get the benefit of selling the criminal . Not only murder , theft , and adultery are punished by selling the criminal for a slave , but every trifling crime is punished in the same manner . " This , and ...
... crimes very hard , in order to get the benefit of selling the criminal . Not only murder , theft , and adultery are punished by selling the criminal for a slave , but every trifling crime is punished in the same manner . " This , and ...
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... crime on trial by their own clan " And again , domesticks are not sold by their masters but for enormous crimes , and after trial by their own clan . " Many slaves in Africa are not easily distinguished from their masters . ' 59 ...
... crime on trial by their own clan " And again , domesticks are not sold by their masters but for enormous crimes , and after trial by their own clan . " Many slaves in Africa are not easily distinguished from their masters . ' 59 ...
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... crimes at Whydah are generally compensated by money . " Speaking of the Gold Coast , he says , " Nobody is here fined above his ability , unless by an accumulation of crimes he hath given occasion there . to , and then he is sent into ...
... crimes at Whydah are generally compensated by money . " Speaking of the Gold Coast , he says , " Nobody is here fined above his ability , unless by an accumulation of crimes he hath given occasion there . to , and then he is sent into ...
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... crimes knowingly , because they have hitherto done it ignorantly ? In fact , sir , an incident that has lately happened in a neighbouring kingdom , tends to con- firm this very reasoning , and it should encourage the friends of ...
... crimes knowingly , because they have hitherto done it ignorantly ? In fact , sir , an incident that has lately happened in a neighbouring kingdom , tends to con- firm this very reasoning , and it should encourage the friends of ...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 5 Nathaniel Chapman Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1807 |
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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...