| 1806 - 854 pages
...very centre, corrupting every part to which it reuches. You there subveit the whole order of nature ; you aggravate every natural barbarity, and furnish...Commerce, acts of perpetual violence and perfidy against hi« neighbour. " Thus, Sir, has the perversion of British commerce carried misery instead of happiness... | |
| William Pitt, W. S. Hathaway - Great Britain - 1808 - 496 pages
...very centre, corrupting every part to which it reaches. You there subvert the whole order of nature ; you aggravate every natural barbarity, and furnish...commerce, acts of perpetual violence and perfidy against bis neighbour. • Thus, Sir, has the prevcrsion of British commerce carried misery instead of happiness... | |
| Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...committing under the name of trade, acts of perpetual hostility and perfidy against his neighbour. Thus had the perversion of British commerce carried misery...the globe. False to the very principles of trade, unmindful of our duty, what almost irreparable mischief had we done to that continent! We had obtained... | |
| Abolitionists - 1836 - 444 pages
...committing, under the name of trade, acts of perpetual hostility and perfidy against his neighbour. Thus has the perversion of British commerce carried misery...instead of happiness to one whole quarter of the globe." The humiliating confession was true. In the extent and atrocity of her human traffic, England had no... | |
| William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 324 pages
...committing, under the name of trade, acts of perpetual hostility and perfidy against his neighbour. Thus has the perversion of British commerce carried misery...instead of happiness to one whole quarter of the globe." The humiliating confession was true. In the extent and atrocity of her human traffic, England had no... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1871 - 502 pages
...oldest existing colonies of Britain are those of West India, chiefly consisting etc. Chambers 672 b. — Thus, sir, has the perversion of British commerce carried misery instead of happiness etc. Pitt 683 b. — Thus, like . . does this mysterious mankind thunder and flame . . Thus, like .... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1858 - 506 pages
...committing, under the name of trade, acts of perpetual hostility and perfidy against his neighbor. Thus had the perversion of British commerce carried misery...the globe. False to the very principles of trade, unmindful of our duty, what almost irreparable mischief had we done to that continent! We had obtained... | |
| W. O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...committing, under the name of trade, acts of perpetual hostility and perfidy against his neighbor. Thus had the perversion of British commerce carried misery...very principles of trade, misguided in our policy, unmindful of our duty, what almost irreparable mischief had we done to that continent 1 How shall we... | |
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