Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added, the Argument of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of PeltierE.C. Biddle, 1841 - 540 páginas |
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... speak not with respect to parties . I stand up in this place single and independent . As to the late ministry , every capital measure they have taken , has been entirely wrong ! As to the present gentlemen , to those at least whom I ...
... speak not with respect to parties . I stand up in this place single and independent . As to the late ministry , every capital measure they have taken , has been entirely wrong ! As to the present gentlemen , to those at least whom I ...
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... speak with decency of every act of this house : but I must beg the indulgence of the house to speak of it with freedom . I hope a day may be soon appointed to consider the state of the nation with respect to America . I hope gentlemen ...
... speak with decency of every act of this house : but I must beg the indulgence of the house to speak of it with freedom . I hope a day may be soon appointed to consider the state of the nation with respect to America . I hope gentlemen ...
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... speak to one point , a point which seems not to have been generally under- stood . I mean to the right . Some gentlemen seem to have considered it as a point of honor . If gentlemen consider it in that light , they leave all measures of ...
... speak to one point , a point which seems not to have been generally under- stood . I mean to the right . Some gentlemen seem to have considered it as a point of honor . If gentlemen consider it in that light , they leave all measures of ...
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... speak therefore from knowledge . My ma- terials were good . I was at pains to collect , to digest , to con- sider them ; and I will be bold to affirm , that the profits to Great Britain from the trade of the colonies , through all its ...
... speak therefore from knowledge . My ma- terials were good . I was at pains to collect , to digest , to con- sider them ; and I will be bold to affirm , that the profits to Great Britain from the trade of the colonies , through all its ...
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... speak for itself . In what instance does it interfere with the privileges of the house of commons ? In what respect does it question their jurisdiction , or suppose an authority in this house to arraign the justice of their sentence ? I ...
... speak for itself . In what instance does it interfere with the privileges of the house of commons ? In what respect does it question their jurisdiction , or suppose an authority in this house to arraign the justice of their sentence ? I ...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the ... William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) Visualização integral - 1840 |
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Página 479 - ... is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 351 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 479 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 430 - The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence.
Página 36 - 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...
Página 348 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 370 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 57 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Página 92 - ... their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made pack-horses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Página 11 - Great Britain, give and grant to your Majesty" — what ? Our own property ! No ! ' ' We give and grant to your Majesty" the property of your Majesty's commons of America!