 | John Steven Watson - 1960 - 668 страници
...ministers were at their last gasp. Their right wing had heard with 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 slaves, would have been fit instruments to make... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 1988 - 248 страници
...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...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 a remarkable... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 страници
...AUDEN (1907-73). Anglo-American poet. The Dyer's Hand, pi. 6, "American Poeiry" (1962). 3 I rejoice cism WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER, LORD CHATHAM (1 708-78), English statesman. Address. 1 4 Jan. t 766, lo House... | |
 | Don Cook - 1995 - 446 страници
...exercise. The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate; America is 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 slaves, would have been fit instruments to make... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 страници
...profect. The gentleman tells us America is ohstinate; America is almost in open rehellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liherty as voluntarily to suhmit to he slaves, would have heen fit instruments to make slaves of the... | |
 | Elfrida de Renne Barrow, Elfrida DeRenne Barrow, Laura Palmer Bell - 2001 - 176 страници
...says to the King: "... thit kingdom has no right to lay a tax on 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 slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1997 - 672 страници
...expression to the noble sentiments of Pitt in the British Parliament, when he declared: "I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...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," and... | |
 | Stanley Weintraub - 2003 - 240 страници
...the hawk-nosed Earl of Chatham, who had thundered in Parliament 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 slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves... | |
 | Edward Cline - 2004 - 244 страници
...emulate, a man who could say such things as, "I am sure I can save this country, and nobody else can," and "Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings...been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." He denied Parliament's right, but Parliament exercised it nonetheless. Men envied his determination... | |
 | Merrill Jensen - 2004 - 754 страници
...America, and heaped contemptuous scorn on George Grenville. He rejoiced, he said, in American resistance. "Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings...been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." He came not, he said, armed with law cases and acts of Parliament and "the statute-book doubled down... | |
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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 the rest. 
