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. The English in America - Стр. 160авторы: Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1851Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - Страниц: 642
...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... | |
| Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - Страниц: 686
...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.... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - Страниц: 472
...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... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - Страниц: 546
...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... | |
| Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - Страниц: 996
...gentleman 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,... | |
| John Frost - 1847 - Страниц: 602
...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 atoms.... | |
| Robert Sears - 1847 - Страниц: 470
...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... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - Страниц: 208
...from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I come... | |
| Robert Sears - 1850 - Страниц: 448
...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... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - Страниц: 606
...The gentleman tells us," he said, " that America i» 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." Alluding to the alleged strength of Great Britain and the weakness of America, he said,... | |
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