 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 Seiten
...which we are menaced. I hear it said that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. / rejoice that America has RESISTED. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of ourselves. The honourable member has said also — for he is fluent in words of bitterness — that... | |
 | James Grahame - 1845 - 536 Seiten
...obstinate," he proceeded, '"that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, / rejoice that ./Imcrica has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to...have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest."1 Deprecating any attempt to execute the Stamp Act, he declared, " I know the valor of your troops... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - 686 Seiten
...from his project. We are told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion . Sir, / rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to have made slaves of all the rest." [After a very happy reply to some old law passages cited by Mr.... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 Seiten
...his project. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate, — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted : three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of others. I come not here armed at all points with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute-book... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 Seiten
...exclaimed, — " The gentleman tells us America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." He recommended wisdom and moderation towards America, and quoted two lines of a ballad by... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1846 - 522 Seiten
...of our fellow-subjects so lost to every sense of virtue, as voluntari y to give up their liberties, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. Assert the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies in as strong terms as can be devised... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 Seiten
...tells us," he burst forth, " that America is obstinate, that America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." " Great Britain," he added, " derived a profit of two millions a year from the colonies,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1847 - 470 Seiten
...the people ; and how could any assembly give or grant what was not their own. "I rejoice," said he, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people,...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." — " In a good cause, on a sound bottom, the force of this country can crush America to... | |
 | John Steven Watson - 1960 - 668 Seiten
...deceptive: ministers were at their last gasp. Their right wing had heard with alarm Pitt declare that 'I rejoice that America has resisted: three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make... | |
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I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. 
