Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volumen5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... duty to in- vestigate the causes of the disturbances in question , and I do declare myself decidedly convinced , and will enter , if required , into proofs of the assertion , that they did not arise from any attempts to abolish the ...
... duty to in- vestigate the causes of the disturbances in question , and I do declare myself decidedly convinced , and will enter , if required , into proofs of the assertion , that they did not arise from any attempts to abolish the ...
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... duties of their profession , so many left their ships in consequence of ill usage , that they seldom brought home more than half of the per- sons they had taken out . This last circumstance was attempted to be accounted for , from the ...
... duties of their profession , so many left their ships in consequence of ill usage , that they seldom brought home more than half of the per- sons they had taken out . This last circumstance was attempted to be accounted for , from the ...
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... duty briefly to relate to the committee ; the rather be- cause they are master pieces in their kind , and fur- nish a complete specimen of the various enormities that attend this detested system . Some gentlemen will perhaps recollect ...
... duty briefly to relate to the committee ; the rather be- cause they are master pieces in their kind , and fur- nish a complete specimen of the various enormities that attend this detested system . Some gentlemen will perhaps recollect ...
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... duty , in the situation in which I stand , not to suffer myself to pay too much attention to what has been well called squeamishness on the part of the committee . If it be too bad for me to recite , or for you to hear , it was not ...
... duty , in the situation in which I stand , not to suffer myself to pay too much attention to what has been well called squeamishness on the part of the committee . If it be too bad for me to recite , or for you to hear , it was not ...
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... duty we condescended to such ignoble drudgery , but we appealed ourselves to more simple and more exalted principles . Where the commands of justice and hu- manity are so imperious , I know not how to admit of parley or of compromise ...
... duty we condescended to such ignoble drudgery , but we appealed ourselves to more simple and more exalted principles . Where the commands of justice and hu- manity are so imperious , I know not how to admit of parley or of compromise ...
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Página 42 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 381 - As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince ; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent: doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely.
Página 388 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Página 377 - I rise, my lords, to declare my sentiments on this most solemn and serious subject. It has imposed a load upon my mind, which, I fear, nothing can remove ; but which impels me to endeavour its alleviation, by a free and unreserved communication of my sentiments.
Página 379 - Paris they transact the reciprocal interests of America and France. Can there be a more mortifying insult? Can even our ministers sustain a more humiliating disgrace ? Do they dare to resent it? Do they presume even to hint a vindication of their honor, and the dignity of the state, by requiring the dismission of the plenipotentiaries of America...
Página 411 - His Majesty is persuaded that the unremitting industry with which our enemies persevere in their avowed design of effecting the separation of Ireland from this kingdom, cannot fail to engage the particular attention of parliament ; and his Majesty recommends it...
Página 385 - You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.
Página 382 - To call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman savage of the woods ; to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My Lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character — it is a violation of the constitution — I believe it is against law.