 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 the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Seite 4311883Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1885 - 390 Seiten
...have nobly taken up arms in your defence !" Can you ever forget the volcanic outburst of Chatham ?—" The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted ! Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 Seiten
...might and 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. I rejoice that America has resisted. If its millions of inhabitants had submitted, taxes would soon have been laid on Ireland ; and if ever... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1890 - 718 Seiten
...flamed with indignation against the philoAmerican agitators in England. Pitt fell upon him fiercely. " The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate....open rebellion. 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,... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1890 - 720 Seiten
...flamed with indignation against the philoAmerican agitators in England. Pitt fell upon him fiercely. " The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate....open rebellion. 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,... | |
 | William Benjamin Smith - 1891 - 344 Seiten
...expulsion ? To show how far these men went, I will quote one or two short extracts : The gentleman tells us America is obstinate, America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three million people so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves would... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 Seiten
...grant to your Majesty the property of your Majesty's commons in America. . . . The gentleman tells us America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. — PITT, to the House of Commons.111 The Act Itself. — In spite of her Writs of Assistance and her... | |
 | 1892 - 440 Seiten
...open resistance. Lord Chatham's address contained the following appeal : ME. SPEAKER, — The gendeman tells us that America is obstinate, — America is...open rebellion! 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,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 522 Seiten
...might and 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. I rejoice that America has resisted." At the word, the whole house started as though the shock of an electric spark from the wire had run... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1897 - 330 Seiten
...and could not be bound to pay taxes without their consent." Later, he added, "The gentleman tells us 'America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion ' ; I rejoice that America has resisted" This was in the winter of 1766. A few weeks after Pitt had thus spoken, Franklin was examined by the... | |
 | 1899 - 616 Seiten
...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 America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves,... | |
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