Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volumen5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... cause , can never be overrated . I need hardly say I allude to Mr. Clarkson . He asserted , as the result of a long and laborious inquiry , that of the sailors em- ployed in the African trade , between a fifth and sixth actually died ...
... cause , can never be overrated . I need hardly say I allude to Mr. Clarkson . He asserted , as the result of a long and laborious inquiry , that of the sailors em- ployed in the African trade , between a fifth and sixth actually died ...
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... causes of dissension between neighbouring communities . When on a former occasion I urged somewhat to this ... cause , gave his evidence with a frankness and fairness which did him great honour , that the Dahomans were a very ...
... causes of dissension between neighbouring communities . When on a former occasion I urged somewhat to this ... cause , gave his evidence with a frankness and fairness which did him great honour , that the Dahomans were a very ...
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... 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 , that in the year 1789 , I stated to the house a curious ...
... 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 , that in the year 1789 , I stated to the house a curious ...
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... causes of these excessive losses , particu- larly on board his own ship , where he had it in his power to ascertain them . The substance of his reply was , that most of the slaves appeared to labour under a fixed dejection and ...
... causes of these excessive losses , particu- larly on board his own ship , where he had it in his power to ascertain them . The substance of his reply was , that most of the slaves appeared to labour under a fixed dejection and ...
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... cause of this mortality by all your regulations . Un- til you can cure a broken heart , until you can legis- late for the affections , and bind by your statutes the passions and feelings of the mind , you will in vain sit here devising ...
... cause of this mortality by all your regulations . Un- til you can cure a broken heart , until you can legis- late for the affections , and bind by your statutes the passions and feelings of the mind , you will in vain sit here devising ...
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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.