 | James Grahame - 1845 - 536 strani
...obstinate," he proceeded, '"that America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, / rejoice that ./Imcrica has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to...would 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... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - 686 strani
...project. We are told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion . Sir, / rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...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 - 472 strani
...— " The gentleman tells us America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." He recommended wisdom and moderation towards America, and quoted two lines of a ballad by Prior—... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 strani
...project. The gentleman tells us America is obstinate, — America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted : three millions of people,...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 - 996 strani
...us," he burst forth, " that America is obstinate, that America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." " Great Britain," he added, " derived a profit of two millions a year from the colonies, and this was... | |
 | Robert Reid Howison - 1848 - 542 strani
...denounced the act, and pressed for its unconditional and immediate repeal. " I rejoice," he said, " that America has resisted : three millions of people...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest."' In reply to Mr. Grenville's question, when the Colonists had been emancipated, he asked... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 strani
...project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...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... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1849 - 592 strani
...discourage me." "We are told America is obstinate — America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest." " The Americans have been wronged ! They have been driven to madness by injustice !... | |
 | John Steven Watson - 1960 - 668 strani
...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... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 1988 - 248 strani
...behind William Pitt's famous plea for the repeal of the Stamp Act. "I rejoice, " Pitt told the Commons, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people...have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. "22 These warnings did not bestir many Britons, but on the colonial side of the Atlantic a remarkable... | |
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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. 
