| John Phillip Reid - 1988 - 248 頁
...behind William Pitt's famous plea for the repeal of the Stamp Act. "I rejoice, " Pitt told the Commons, "that America has resisted. Three millions of people...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... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 頁
...it. WH AUDEN (1907-73). Anglo-American poet. The Dyer's Hand, pi. 6, "American Poeiry" (1962). 3 I of criticism the rest. WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER, LORD CHATHAM (1 708-78), English statesman. Address. 1 4 Jan. t 766,... | |
| Don Cook - 1995 - 446 頁
...exercise. The gentleman tells us that America is obstinate; America is 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 slaves, would have been fit instruments to make... | |
| Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 頁
...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... | |
| Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 頁
...from his profect. The gentleman tells us America is ohstinate; America is almost in open rehellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liherty as voluntarily to suhmit to he slaves, would have heen fit instruments to make slaves of the... | |
| Elfrida de Renne Barrow, Elfrida DeRenne Barrow, Laura Palmer Bell - 2001 - 176 頁
...resistance, says to the King: "... thit kingdom has no right to lay a tax on 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 slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 2002 - 680 頁
...his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate ; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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 頁
...but give expression to the noble sentiments of Pitt in the British Parliament, when he declared: "I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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 頁
...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... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 頁
...from his project. The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions...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... | |
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