| Basil Williams - 1966 - 440 σελίδες
...is united against you ? . . . The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper. The Americans have been wronged. They have been driven...madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the 1 Six months later Atticus (possibly Francis) writes in the Pullic Advertiser : ' The collective body... | |
| John Phillip Reid - 1988 - 248 σελίδες
...Stamp Act. "I rejoice, " Pitt told the Commons, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily...would 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. J. Langguth - 1989 - 644 σελίδες
...bowels of your countrymen? . . . The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper. They have been driven to madness by injustice. Will...you punish them for the madness you have occasioned? "Upon the whole," Pitt concluded, "I will beg leave to tell the House what is really my opinion. It... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 σελίδες
...pi. 6, "American Poeiry" (1962). 3 I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so ARA WALTERS (b. 1931). US ¡ournalisi, broadcaster....R " B"F 1993 Columbia University Press"# Andrew the rest. WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER, LORD CHATHAM (1 708-78), English statesman. Address. 1 4 Jan. t 766,... | |
| Don Cook - 1995 - 446 σελίδες
...almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute... | |
| Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 σελίδες
...almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three million of people so dead to all feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of parliament, with the statute... | |
| Elfrida de Renne Barrow, Elfrida DeRenne Barrow, Laura Palmer Bell - 2001 - 176 σελίδες
...the colonies . . . Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." The "Speedwell" arrives with the stamps which are Dec. transferred to Fort Halifax for safe... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 2002 - 680 σελίδες
...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...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. I come not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute-book... | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1997 - 672 σελίδες
...British Parliament, when he declared: "I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Take notice, Mr Saulsbury tells us that people denied the right of self-government are "slaves,"... | |
| Stanley Weintraub - 2003 - 240 σελίδες
...when still William Pitt, "I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be...would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." While the ranks and the civilians paraded down Broadway, Knox had trotted on to the next... | |
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