Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volumen5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... necessary for me to take up so much of the time of the house , as I have felt myself compelled to do on former occasions . For , besides that I might well be content to leave the task of enforcing the proposition I shall bring forward ...
... necessary for me to take up so much of the time of the house , as I have felt myself compelled to do on former occasions . For , besides that I might well be content to leave the task of enforcing the proposition I shall bring forward ...
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... necessary for their own , as for their master's comfort and security . But whence does this arise ? From the constant influx of slaves from Africa ; who , torn from their homes for ever ; resenting the wrongs they have suffered ...
... necessary for their own , as for their master's comfort and security . But whence does this arise ? From the constant influx of slaves from Africa ; who , torn from their homes for ever ; resenting the wrongs they have suffered ...
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... necessary by any thing urged in the course of the debate . I felt it my 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 ...
... necessary by any thing urged in the course of the debate . I felt it my 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 ...
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... necessary for the general safety to extinguish in them the principle of moral agency . They would feel more respectable in themselves and be more respected by others ; and by degrees , the harshness of their present bondage being ...
... necessary for the general safety to extinguish in them the principle of moral agency . They would feel more respectable in themselves and be more respected by others ; and by degrees , the harshness of their present bondage being ...
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... necessary for our opponents to be correct in order to be positive . I will but just touch on the effects of immediate abolition on our general policy ; on our commerce and manufactures , and on the prosperity of the places whence the ...
... necessary for our opponents to be correct in order to be positive . I will but just touch on the effects of immediate abolition on our general policy ; on our commerce and manufactures , and on the prosperity of the places whence the ...
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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.