 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 σελίδες
...the payment of a tax of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined his foi-tune? No; but great and e M as demanded', would have made him a slave. Sir, if, in acting on these high motives, if, animated... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 σελίδες
...resist the payment of a tax of twenty shillings, Would twenty shillings have ruined his fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle...which it was demanded, would have made him a slave. 250 LESSON CXXXIII. Extract from a. Speech of the Hon. D. WIBSTM, In reply to the Hon. RY HATSE, in... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 σελίδες
...which inspired the immortal Hampden to resist, at the peril of his life, the imposition of ship-money, not because, as remarked by Burke, " the payment of twenty shillings would have ruined his fortune, l,ut because the payment of half twenty shillings on the principle on which it was demanded, would... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 σελίδες
...which inspired the immortal Hampden to resist, at the peril of his life, the imposition of ship-money, not because, as remarked by Burke, " the payment of twenty shillings would have ruined his fortune, Lut because the payment of half twenty shillings on the principle on which it was demanded, would have... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 σελίδες
...which inspired the immortal Hampden to resist, at the peril of his life, the imposition of ship-money, not because, as remarked by Burke, " the payment of twenty shillings would have ruined his fortune, •l/ut because the payment of half twenty shillings on the principle on which it was demanded, would... | |
 | Robert Young Hayne - 1852 - 90 σελίδες
...the payment of a tax of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined his fortune ? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle...which it was demanded, would have made him a slave. Sir, if acting on these high motives — if animated by that ardent love of liberty which has always... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 240 σελίδες
...the payment of a tax of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined his fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle...which it was demanded, would have made him a slave. Sir, if acting on these high motives — if animated by that ardent love of liberty which has always... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 σελίδες
...the payment of a tax of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined his fortune ? No ; but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle...which it was demanded, would have made him a slave. Sir, if, in acting on these high motives — if, animated by that ardent love of liberty which has... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 σελίδες
...resist the payment of a tax of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined his fortune? No; but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle...which it was demanded, would have made him a slave. Sir, if, in acting on these high motives — if, animated by that ardent love of liberty which has... | |
 | Edward Austin Sheldon - 1875 - 444 σελίδες
...which inspired the immortal Hampden to resist, at the peril of his life, the imposition of ship-money ; not because, as remarked by Burke, " the payment of...but because the payment of half twenty shillings, or the principle on which it was demanded, would have made him a slave." 6. It was the spirit of liberty... | |
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Would twenty shillings have ruined his fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings on the principle on which it was demanded would have made him a slave. 
