| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1775 - 346 pages
...Fitzwilliam, Manchefter, Craven, Coiu-tenay, Leinfter, Tankerville, Stanhope, Archer." Dlffentientt Becaufe the attempt, to coerce by famine, the whole body of...and populous provinces, is without example in the hiftory of this, or perhaps of any civilized nation ; and is one of thofe unhappy inventions, to which... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1802 - 502 pages
...Leinster, Abin'gdon, , • Craven, Courtenay, Stanhope,' Tankerville, • Archer. Fitzwilliam, Dissentient, Because the attempt to coerce by famine the whole...in the history of this, or perhaps of any civilized nation: and is one of those unhappy inventions, to which Parliament is driven by the difficulties which... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...and Commerce of the New England Colonies.] The following Protest was entered : " Dissentient, 1st. " Because the attempt to coerce by famine, the whole...in the history of this, or perhaps of any civilized nation ; and is one of those unhappy inventions, to which parliament is driven by the difficulties... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 904 pages
...papers on record. A single passage will indicate its general tone: "We dissent," said these noblemen, "because the attempt to coerce, by famine, the whole...the history of this or, perhaps, of any civilized njvtion, and is one of those unhappy inventions to which Parliament is driven by the difficuliics which... | |
| Fisheries - 1853 - 332 pages
...papers on record. A single passage will indicate its general tone: "We dissent," said these noblemen, "because the attempt to coerce, by famine, the whole...the history of this or, perhaps, of any civilized nation, and is one of those unhappy inventions to which Parliament is driven by the difficulties which... | |
| American revolution - 1855 - 320 pages
...was in the House of Lords, the illustrious patriots there, made a protest against it, " because, to attempt to coerce by famine, the whole body of the...without example in the history of this, or perhaps any civilized nation ; and is one of those unhappy inventions, to which Parliament is driven by the... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Great Britain - 1875 - 592 pages
...Abingdon called 'a most diabolic measure,' expressing his amazement that the Bishops voted for it. ist, Because the attempt to coerce by famine, the whole...example in the history of this, or perhaps of any civilised nation ; and is one of those unhappy inventions, to which Parliament is driven by the difficulties... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 736 pages
...papers on record. A single passage will indicate its general tone: "We dissent," said these noblemen, "because the attempt to coerce, by famine, the whole...the history of this or, perhaps, of any civilized nation, and is one of those unhappy inventions to which Parliament is driven by the difficulties which... | |
| John Bach McMaster - United States - 1895 - 682 pages
...bill did indeed pass by a great majority; but twenty-one peers entered a solemn protest against it. " "We dissent," said they, " because the attempt to...the history of this or, perhaps, of any civilized nation." Nor were Lord North and the Parliament alone in the belief that the act must be fatal to New... | |
| Willis John Abbot - Mercantile marine - 1902 - 406 pages
...prominence above the city the part which its natural prototypes played in building up the commonwealth. In the Revolution and the early wars of the United...upon them other laws more unjust and more offensive still—a sort of homeopathic treatment, not infrequently applied by tyrants, but which seldom proves... | |
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