| Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 232 páginas
...gentlemen — youth is the season of credulity — confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom I" Some one, having spoken of " the obstinacy of America,"...made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make * Hume— Essays. slaves of all the rest !"• — Then, speaking of the attempt to keep her down —... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - 1184 páginas
...occasion, " We are told that America is obstinate — that America is almost in open rebellion ; Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as to submit to be slaves, would have been fit to make slaves of the rest." This was the language then... | |
| William Smyth - 1840 - 514 páginas
...he ought to have desisted from his project " ' America,' he says, ' is almost in open rebellion ;' I rejoice that America has resisted ; three millions...dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to consent to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. Why did the gentleman... | |
| Carlo Botta - 1840 - 520 páginas
...we are menaced. I hear it said that — America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honorable member... | |
| John Adolphus - 1840 - 652 páginas
...project. The gentleman tells us America is ob" stinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I re" joice that America has resisted. Three millions of " people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as volun" tarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit in" struments to make slaves of the rest.... | |
| William Grimshaw - 1840 - 342 páginas
...resisted. Three millions of people, so lost to every sense of virtue, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." The opposition could not be withstood: the repeal was carried in March; an event which caused great... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 páginas
...exclaimed, — "The gentleman tells us America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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." He said that, in all... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 páginas
...from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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. I come not here armed... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 640 páginas
...Pitt (afterwards Earl of Chatham,) and of Lord Camden, excited great attention. Pitt said — "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, would have been fit instruments to make... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 538 páginas
...William Pitt (afterward Earl of Chatham), and of Lord Caraden, excited great attention. Pitt said, " &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, would have been fit instruments to make... | |
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