Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volumen5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... nation , March the 24th , 1795 , 111 Mr. Fox's Speech in the house of commons , on the se- cond reading of the bill for the new assessed taxes , 171 The speech of Richard B. Sheridan , on the same , 195 Mr. Pitt's Speech , in the house ...
... nation , March the 24th , 1795 , 111 Mr. Fox's Speech in the house of commons , on the se- cond reading of the bill for the new assessed taxes , 171 The speech of Richard B. Sheridan , on the same , 195 Mr. Pitt's Speech , in the house ...
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... nation , made in the year 1779 , 315 379 393 Lord Chatham's Speech , in the house of lords , the 11th of December , 1777 , against a motion of adjournment , 403 Mr. Pitt's Speech , in the house of commons , January 31st , 1779 , on ...
... nation , made in the year 1779 , 315 379 393 Lord Chatham's Speech , in the house of lords , the 11th of December , 1777 , against a motion of adjournment , 403 Mr. Pitt's Speech , in the house of commons , January 31st , 1779 , on ...
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... nation owes so much of her safety and of her honour . But I will abstain from this painful detail , and only repeat what I recently observed , that in the outset of this business nothing was more obstinately denied than our now , no ...
... nation owes so much of her safety and of her honour . But I will abstain from this painful detail , and only repeat what I recently observed , that in the outset of this business nothing was more obstinately denied than our now , no ...
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... nations being likely to carry on the slave trade if we were to abandon it ; on which the conclusion is then rested , that if so , however wicked , however cruel it is , we might as well carry it on ourselves . Admitting the supposi ...
... nations being likely to carry on the slave trade if we were to abandon it ; on which the conclusion is then rested , that if so , however wicked , however cruel it is , we might as well carry it on ourselves . Admitting the supposi ...
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... nation in the world by which this argument may not be used with more decency than by ourselves . But miserable as ... nations of Europe of the enormities of the slave trade , and strive to prevail on them to desist from it ...
... nation in the world by which this argument may not be used with more decency than by ourselves . But miserable as ... nations of Europe of the enormities of the slave trade , and strive to prevail on them to desist from it ...
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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.