| James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...that America is obstinate" — he proceeded — •' that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, 1 rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest."1 Deprecating any attempt to execute the Stamp Act, he declared, " I know the valour of your... | |
| James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...that America is obstinate" — he proceeded — " that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, 1 rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest."1 Deprecating any attempt to execute the Stamp Act, he declared, " t know the valour of your... | |
| 1836 - 558 pages
...pp. 83—85. * I rejoice that America has resisted,' was the bold declaration of the great Pitt. ' Three millions of people so dead to all the ' feelings...would ' have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest of their fel' low subjects.' Contemplating the astonishing growth of the American Republic,... | |
| Carlo Botta - United States - 1837 - 508 pages
...tongues, our hearts, our hands, the tyranny with which we are menaced. I hear it said that — Americais obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honorable member has said also, for he is fluent in words of bitterness, that America... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...those contained In the hook. One emphatic sentence rung from one end of our continent to the other—"I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Although an abridgment of this speech might give some satisfaction to our readers, we abstain... | |
| George Wingrove Cooke - Great Britain - 1837 - 694 pages
...whenever the principle can be peers, are equally legislative supported by power." — Parl. Hist., CHAP. the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to...slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves AD 1765. of the rest. Upon the whole," he concluded, "I will beg leave to tell the house what is really... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1838 - 544 pages
...exercise. No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it. It is a liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited. He ought to have...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute-book... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1838 - 516 pages
...exercise. No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it. It is a liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited. He ought to have...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute-book... | |
| William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.), William Stanhope Taylor - Europe - 1838 - 532 pages
...exercise. No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise it. It is a liberty by which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited. He ought to have...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute-book... | |
| 1838 - 892 pages
...Whatever may be the result of the contest, I rejoice that the Canadians have resisted. Half a million of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty as...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. The Noble Lord remembers similar words; he remembers by whom, and on what occasion, they... | |
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