The Pamphleteer, Band 7Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1816 |
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... Slaves into the British Colonies . If there remained in this country any difference of opinion on the subject of the slave trade , in one point at least we should be unanimous , The abo- lition , to produce any salutary effects , must ...
... Slaves into the British Colonies . If there remained in this country any difference of opinion on the subject of the slave trade , in one point at least we should be unanimous , The abo- lition , to produce any salutary effects , must ...
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... slaves . As it is impossible suddenly to break their fetters , without danger of cala- mitous consequences , not only to their masters but themselves , we must suffer them to remain , for some considerable period , in their present ...
... slaves . As it is impossible suddenly to break their fetters , without danger of cala- mitous consequences , not only to their masters but themselves , we must suffer them to remain , for some considerable period , in their present ...
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... slavery , the necessary reformation might be attained , and the slave trade itself even effectually suppressed , by influencing the assemblies to reform their own laws , and to pass acts for improving the moral and civil state of their ...
... slavery , the necessary reformation might be attained , and the slave trade itself even effectually suppressed , by influencing the assemblies to reform their own laws , and to pass acts for improving the moral and civil state of their ...
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... slaves . They did not decline indeed , on the contrary they earnestly desired , the enactment of meliorating laws . In some cases , the existing oppression arises not from the abuse of a master's powers , but from the direct and ...
... slaves . They did not decline indeed , on the contrary they earnestly desired , the enactment of meliorating laws . In some cases , the existing oppression arises not from the abuse of a master's powers , but from the direct and ...
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... slavery has been mitigated in its kind , or ceased to exist after having once extensively prevailed , the supply of foreign slaves has first been cut off . Till the almost universal extent of the Roman empire had precluded the former ...
... slavery has been mitigated in its kind , or ceased to exist after having once extensively prevailed , the supply of foreign slaves has first been cut off . Till the almost universal extent of the Roman empire had precluded the former ...
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abolition Acts of Parliament Africa African Slave Trade agriculture allowed amount annuities Bank of England benefit bill brewers British capital cause cent circulation colonies commerce common consequence consideration copyhold corn court of directors creditors crime dividend duty Eadmer Edwy effect equal established Ethelgiva evil existing expedient expenses farmer foreign France give Governor and Company House of Commons important income increase island Jamaica justice labor land legislature licensing loans Lord loss manumissions means measure ment millions minister necessary negroes object oppression paid parish Parliament payment peace period persons planters pounds practice present principles produce profits proportion proprietors prosperity public-houses purchase quarter sessions rate of interest reason reduced registry rent respect revenue Sinking Fund Slave Trade slavery Spain statute supply taxation taxes tion Tithes United Kingdom usury wealth witnesses
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 100 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Seite 79 - ... the king and parliament of Great Britain will not impose any duty, tax, or assessment whatever, payable in any of His Majesty's colonies, provinces and plantations in North America or the West Indies ; except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce ; the net produce of such duties to be always paid and applied to and for the use of the colony, province, or plantation, in which the same shall be respectively levied, in such manner as other duties collected...
Seite 578 - That the Colonies and Plantations of Great Britain in North America, consisting of fourteen separate Governments, and containing two millions and upwards of free inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending any Knights and Burgesses, or others, to represent them in the High Court of Parliament.
Seite 195 - ... may also levy the poundage fees and expenses of the execution over and above the sum recovered by the judgment.
Seite 77 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned, but the concurrence of the Peers and the Crown to a tax, is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Seite 164 - The court very wisely hath never laid down any general rule beyond which it will not go, lest other means of avoiding the equity of the court should be found out.
Seite 380 - George the third, and his heirs and successors, and his and their abettors, assistants and adherents, and will serve the said United States in the office which I now hold, with fidelity, according to the best of my skill and understanding. So help me God.
Seite 202 - ... and to yield such further recompense to the party grieved, as by the discretion of the judge of the court, out of which the said process shall...
Seite 79 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Seite 275 - ... hath not done so much good as was hoped it should, but rather the said vice of usury, and specially by way of sale of wares and shifts of interest, hath much more exceedingly abounded, to the utter undoing of many gentlemen, merchants, occupiers, and others, and to the importable hurt of the commonwealth...