A Complete Collection of State Trials Vol. XX |
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Sivu 35
... bave The condition before described in giving the idea of slavery in general . His service was uncer- tain and indeterminate , such as his lord thought fit to require ; or , as some of our ancient writers ( b ) express it , he knew not ...
... bave The condition before described in giving the idea of slavery in general . His service was uncer- tain and indeterminate , such as his lord thought fit to require ; or , as some of our ancient writers ( b ) express it , he knew not ...
Sivu 73
... bave a sense of the right and value of freedom ; but who imagine that of fences against society are punishable justly by the severe law of servitude . For crimes against property , a considerable addition is made to the number of slaves ...
... bave a sense of the right and value of freedom ; but who imagine that of fences against society are punishable justly by the severe law of servitude . For crimes against property , a considerable addition is made to the number of slaves ...
Sivu 131
... bave stated by blank persons ? -All I can recollect of that particular memorial that you speak to is this , that four people brought it ; it is a hard thing to be pinned down to such a thing as that . The mustastaph himself was present ...
... bave stated by blank persons ? -All I can recollect of that particular memorial that you speak to is this , that four people brought it ; it is a hard thing to be pinned down to such a thing as that . The mustastaph himself was present ...
Sivu 165
... bave finished , they would just as much be out of your memory as they are now . But you will remember perfectly the nature of the pro- ceedings . I purpose to collect them as well as I can into a focus ; to bring the pith of them as ...
... bave finished , they would just as much be out of your memory as they are now . But you will remember perfectly the nature of the pro- ceedings . I purpose to collect them as well as I can into a focus ; to bring the pith of them as ...
Sivu 261
... bave excited prejudices surviving , as is common , the par- ticular causes which gave them rise . To anti- cipate any such misapprehensions , I beg leave to offer this definition of prerogative , in which , I trust , I shall have your ...
... bave excited prejudices surviving , as is common , the par- ticular causes which gave them rise . To anti- cipate any such misapprehensions , I beg leave to offer this definition of prerogative , in which , I trust , I shall have your ...
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Sivu 19 - ... or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole...
Sivu 249 - Chief of our said Province for the time being, then such and so many of the said Laws, Statutes and Ordinances as shall be so disallowed and not approved shall from thenceforth cease, determine and become utterly void and of none effect, anything to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
Sivu 801 - WHEN the complaints of a brave and powerful people are observed to increase in proportion to the wrongs they have suffered, when, instead of sinking into submission, they are roused to resistance, the time will soon arrive at which every inferior consideration must yield to the security of the sovereign and to the general safety of the state.
Sivu 665 - ... to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for that reason only inhumanly murdered by the king's troops at or near Lexington and Concord, in the province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April; which sum being immediately collected, it was thereupon resolved that Mr.
Sivu 81 - The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only [by] positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it was created, is erased from memory: it's so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.
Sivu 801 - ... you heard it in the complaints of your people. It is not however too late to correct the error of your education. We are still inclined to make an indulgent allowance for the pernicious lessons you received in your youth, and to form the most sanguine hopes from the natural benevolence of your disposition.'' We are far from thinking you capable of a direct deliberate purpose to invade those original rights of your subjects, on which all their civil and political liberties depend. Had it been...
Sivu 243 - Governors of our said colonies, respectively, that, so soon as the state and circumstances of the said colonies will admit thereof, they shall, with the advice and consent of the members of our council, summon and call general assemblies, within the said governments, respectively, in such manner and form as is used and directed in those colonies and provinces in America, which are under our immediate government...
Sivu 649 - In contempt of our said Lord the King, in open violation of the laws of this kingdom, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Sivu 805 - ... unworthy personal resentment. From one false step you have been betrayed into another, and, as the cause was unworthy of you, your ministers were determined that the prudence of the execution should correspond with the wisdom and dignity of the design. They have reduced you to the necessity of choosing out of a variety of difficulties — to a situation so unhappy that you can neither do wrong without ruin nor right without affliction. These worthy servants have undoubtedly given you many singular...
Sivu 811 - Lay aside the wretched formalities of a king, and speak to your subjects with the spirit of a man, and in the language of a gentleman. Tell them you have been fatally deceived.