Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... 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 . WILBERFORCE'S SPEECH ON THE.
... 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 . WILBERFORCE'S SPEECH ON THE.
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... give me for the ground work of the story , they conceive these at least are merely my own comments ! But astonishing as it may seem , this is almost in terms the captain's own account . So dead and callous does this trade render those ...
... give me for the ground work of the story , they conceive these at least are merely my own comments ! But astonishing as it may seem , this is almost in terms the captain's own account . So dead and callous does this trade render those ...
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... give them an order for goods on the vessel , with which he was obliged to comply . Now then at least you are prepared to hear that they proceeded to satiate their revenge ; and if this might seem something like bad faith , con- sidering ...
... give them an order for goods on the vessel , with which he was obliged to comply . Now then at least you are prepared to hear that they proceeded to satiate their revenge ; and if this might seem something like bad faith , con- sidering ...
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... give its sanction to the continuance of this infernal traffick . We were for awhile ignorant of its real nature ; but it has now been completely developed , and laid open to your view in all its horrours . Never was there , indeed , a ...
... give its sanction to the continuance of this infernal traffick . We were for awhile ignorant of its real nature ; but it has now been completely developed , and laid open to your view in all its horrours . Never was there , indeed , a ...
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... give them much reason to envy the condi- tion of their brethren , who have been carried to the West Indies . " The slaves are well fed , their la- bour is not constant , and there is no driver in Senegal and Gambia . " " Domestick ...
... give them much reason to envy the condi- tion of their brethren , who have been carried to the West Indies . " The slaves are well fed , their la- bour is not constant , and there is no driver in Senegal and Gambia . " " Domestick ...
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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...