| Hugh Murray - 1844 - 408 páginas
...could any assembly give or grant what was not their own. " I rejoice," said he, " that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all...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.... | |
| University magazine - 1845 - 776 páginas
...entered the head of any man. It does not deserve a serious refutation. . ... I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all...been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." It is not probable that any course which might have been adopted could have much longer enabled us... | |
| James Grahame - 1845 - 536 páginas
...obstinate," he proceeded, '"that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, / rejoice that ./Imcrica has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all...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 valor of your troops... | |
| Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 páginas
...it said that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. / rejoice that America has RESISTED. Three millions of people, so dead to all...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honourable member has said also — for he is fluent in words of bitterness — that... | |
| 1845 - 554 páginas
...gentleman tells us, America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all...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... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 páginas
...gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all...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... | |
| Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - 686 páginas
...told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion . Sir, / rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all...submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to have made slaves of all the rest." [After a very happy reply to some old law passages cited by Mr.... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 páginas
...tells us America is obstinate, — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted : three millions of people, so dead to all...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of others. I come not here armed at all points with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute-book... | |
| Basil Williams - 1966 - 440 páginas
...to all the feelings of liberty, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts...Parliament, with the Statute Book doubled down in dog's ears to defend the cause of liberty. ... I would not debate a particular point of law with the... | |
| John Phillip Reid - 1988 - 248 páginas
...famous plea for the repeal of the Stamp Act. "I rejoice, " Pitt told the Commons, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all...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... | |
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