 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the v weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. It is then, sir, upon the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 páginas
...called upon for the payment of twenty shillings.' Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demand ed, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond,... | |
 | Robert Young Hayne - 1852 - 90 páginas
...Hampden to 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 on which it was demanded, would have made him a slave. Sir, if acting on these high motives — if... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 páginas
...never\ 3. Does any one suppose that the payment of twenty shillings, would have ruined Mr. Hambdeu's fortune ? No\ But the payment of half^ twenty shillings,...principle^ it was demanded, would have made him a slave\ 4. I insist^ upon this point\ I urge^ you to it ; I press^ it, demand^ it. 5. All that I have\ all... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 páginas
...exaction. As Burke said in regard to the resistance of the colonies to the three-penny tax upon tea, " the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made Hampden a slave." His open refusal to pay the tax brought out the whole power of the king to crush... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it wademanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamhle, of which you are so fond,... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ; but the payment of half twenty shillings,...that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear." In this parliament of 1774 the Tory party was deserted in disgust by one, long the ardent admirer of... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ; but the payment of half twenty shillings,...duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to hear." In this parliament of 1774 the Tory party was deserted in disgust by one, long the ardent admirer... | |
 | 1854 - 576 páginas
...called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined .Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that th* Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. You arc, therefore, at this moment, in the awkward... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 234 páginas
...Hampden to 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 on which it was demanded, would have made him a slave. Sir, if acting on these high motives — if... | |
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The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment... 
