 | Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1883 - 754 strani
...effect this by prohibition, and by imposing duties which might amount to prohibition, have hitherto been defeated by his majesty's negative, thus preferring...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice.' I read this merely to show that two years before the declaration of independence was signed, Mr. Jefferson,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1885 - 462 strani
...prohibition, have been hitherto defeated by his Majesty's negative—thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." Jefferson was not only thus far in advance of British public opinion on one great question of the future,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 522 strani
...have hitherto been defeated by his Majesty's negative — thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs to the lasting interests...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice.' Bright's Speeches, ed. 1869, i. 171. Franklin (Memoirs, ed. 1818, iii. 17), writing from London in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1892 - 558 strani
...hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative : Thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few African1 corsairs to the lasting interests of the American...human nature deeply wounded by this infamous practice. Nay, the single interposition of an interested individual against a law was scarcely ever known to... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 538 strani
...king himself, who thus preferred the advantage of " a few British corsairs to the lasting interest of the American States and to the rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." ' Washington shared the ideas of Jefferson. He presided at the Fairfax County Convention, and took... | |
 | United Colonies of New England - 1893 - 160 strani
...hitherto defeated by his majesty's negative : thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few African corsairs to the lasting interests of the American...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice. Nay, the single interposition of an interested individual against a law was scarcely ever known to... | |
 | William Milligan Sloane - 1896 - 466 strani
...Government as preferring " the immediate advantage of a few British corsairs to the lasting interest of the American states and to the rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." Meantime provocation by the royal officials and recrimination by the populace went steadily forward... | |
 | Thomas Corwin - 1896 - 502 strani
...negative, thus preferring the immediate advantage of a few African corsairs to the lasting interest of the American States, and to the rights of human...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." Here we see proofs undeniable that Mr. Jefferson, the leading spirit then, confidently anticipated,... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1898 - 268 strani
...hitherto defeated by his Majesty's negative; Thus preferring the immediate advantage of a few African [British] corsairs, to the lasting interests of the...nature deeply wounded by this infamous practice.— Jefferson, Works, vol. I (Ford}, p. 440. The convention actually Resolved, We will neither ourselves... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 386 strani
...yet they had been considerable carriers of them to others." Jefferson said King George preferred the advantage " of a few British corsairs to the lasting...nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice." ' While it is not true, as has often been claimed, that England is solely responsible for the introduction... | |
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Majesty's negative ; thus preferring the immediate advantages of a few British corsairs, to the lasting interests of the American States, and to the rights of human nature, deeply wounded by this infamous practice. 
