The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. 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... Memorials and Correspondence - Seite 106von Charles James Fox, Earl John Russell Russell - 1853 - 480 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald - 1905 - 708 Seiten
...stamp officer. When the news reached England, the Earl of Chatham said: "The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted." Then came the riot between people and soldiers, called the "Boston Massacre," in 1770, and the burning... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 Seiten
...passage of the Stamp Act had aroused resistance, " I rejoice that America has resisted. Three million of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." 261. Edmund Burke. — The... | |
| Frederic Harrison - 1905 - 262 Seiten
...calumniates it might have profited. He ought to have profited. He ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. / rejoice that. America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty,... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 Seiten
...passage of the Stamp Act had aroused resistance, " I rejoice that America has resisted. Three million of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." 261. Edmund Burke. — The... | |
| Albert von Ruville - 1907 - 468 Seiten
...After making some observations upon liberty of speech, he continued : ' The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted.' This was indeed an audacious assertion, one which any one but Pitt would have been afraid to make.... | |
| Albert von Ruville - 1907 - 470 Seiten
...After malting some observations upon liberty of speech, he continued : ' The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted.' This was indeed an audacious assertion, one which any one but Pitt would have been afraid to make.... | |
| Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907 - 390 Seiten
..." The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate ; that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, 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 have... | |
| Hugh Edward Egerton, William Lawson Grant - 1907 - 506 Seiten
...laid on Ireland ; and if ever this nation should have a tyrant for its king, six millions of free men, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to bo slaves, would be fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." 3 Ie, that employed from 1763 to 1774.... | |
| Elroy McKendree Avery - 1908 - 546 Seiten
...omitted portion of his former speech, allowed him to go on. "The gentleman tells us," he exclaimed, "America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three mil- 1766 lions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves,... | |
| Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 Seiten
...which the gentleman who calumniates it might have profited. He ought to have desisted from his project. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that An answer to America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all George Gren- the feelmcrs... | |
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