 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Canada History To 1763 (New France) - 1851 - 406 pages
...their consent." " We are told America is obstinate," he said, " and is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." " The Americans have been wronged ! They have been driven to madness by injustice ! Will you punish... | |
 | John Steven Watson - History - 1960 - 668 pages
...alarm Pitt declare that 'I rejoice that America has resisted: three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest.' The duke of Grafton, on the other wing, had been more than ever convinced that the administration could... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - Political Science - 1988 - 248 pages
...behind William Pitt's famous plea for the repeal of the Stamp Act. "I rejoice, " Pitt told the Commons, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. "22 These warnings did not bestir many Britons, but on the colonial side of the Atlantic... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...realized it. WH AUDEN (1907-73). Anglo-American poet. The Dyer's Hand, pi. 6, "American Poeiry" (1962). 3 n of criticism the rest. WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER, LORD CHATHAM (1 708-78), English statesman. Address. 1 4 Jan. t 766,... | |
 | Don Cook - History - 1995 - 446 pages
...almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be...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... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three million of people so dead to all feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be...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... | |
 | Elfrida de Renne Barrow, Elfrida DeRenne Barrow, Laura Palmer Bell - History - 2001 - 176 pages
...the colonies . . . Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." The "Speedwell" arrives with the stamps which are Dec. transferred to Fort Halifax for safe... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 680 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 672 pages
...I but give expression to the noble sentiments of Pitt in the British Parliament, when he declared: "I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Take notice, Mr Saulsbury tells us that people denied the right of self-government are "slaves,"... | |
 | Stanley Weintraub - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 240 pages
...when still William Pitt, "I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." While the ranks and the civilians paraded down Broadway, Knox had trotted on to the next... | |
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America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of... 
