| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 страници
...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... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 страници
...reflecting severely upon Grenville for complaining of the liberty of speech in that house, he exclaimed, — "The gentleman tells us America is obstinate — America...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." He said that, in all our wants of money, no minister since the Revolution had ever thought... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 538 страници
..." &r, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the principles of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves,...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest;" and Lord Camden said, " I will repeat it, and will maintain it to my last hour, that taxation and representation... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 640 страници
..."Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the principles of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves,...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest ;" and Lord Camden said — " I repeat it, and will maintain it to my last hour, that taxation and... | |
| John Niles Hubbard - 1842 - 322 страници
...and, in the midst of a most powerful and impressive speech replies to this — " I hear it said that America is obstinate. America is almost in open rebellion....would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honorable gentleman has said also, for he has been fluent in words of bitterness, that... | |
| Mary Bowley - 1842 - 550 страници
...exclaimed, " I rejoice that America has resisted : three millions of people so dead to all feeling of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves,...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." The power of the government was, however, too strong to permit an unconditional repeal ; the house... | |
| William Grimshaw - 1843 - 348 страници
...excited, " I rejoice," said he, " 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." In the East Indies, a new foe was added, to those already raised by commercial avidity and national... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1844 - 408 страници
...people ; and how could any assembly give or grant what was not their own. " I rejoice," said he, " that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest."—" In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to atoms.... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 страници
...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... | |
| 1845 - 554 страници
...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... | |
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