An Exposé on the Dissentions of Spanish America ...: Intended as a Means to Induce the Mediatory Interference of Great Britain, in Order to Put an End to a Destructive Civil War and to Establish Permanent Quiet and Prosperity, on a Basis Consistent with the Dignity of Spain, and the Interests of the World ...author, and sold, 1814 - 480 էջ |
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... side , and the Missisippi on the other , as far as Cape Horn ; washed by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans , and generally denomi nated Spanish North and South America , was due to the great Columbus , and its principal conquest and ...
... side , and the Missisippi on the other , as far as Cape Horn ; washed by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans , and generally denomi nated Spanish North and South America , was due to the great Columbus , and its principal conquest and ...
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... side of the Atlantic , * but especially to protect the Indians . By these establish- ments , and by the new enactions of Charles V. ( exclusively emanating from the humane exertions of the benevolent Las Casas , ) the situation of the ...
... side of the Atlantic , * but especially to protect the Indians . By these establish- ments , and by the new enactions of Charles V. ( exclusively emanating from the humane exertions of the benevolent Las Casas , ) the situation of the ...
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... side of the Atlantic , unless authorized by the seal of the said coun- cil of the Indies . Like that of Castile , it was further empowered to enact laws relating to America , in con- currence with the king . A code of particular laws ...
... side of the Atlantic , unless authorized by the seal of the said coun- cil of the Indies . Like that of Castile , it was further empowered to enact laws relating to America , in con- currence with the king . A code of particular laws ...
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... sides , one of the most learned of the Spanish juriscon- sults of his time , confesses , " that the Indies were in- corporated to the crown of Castile , as feudatory king- Essai Politique , chap . 12 , lib.5 . Ibid , chap . 6 , liv . 13 ...
... sides , one of the most learned of the Spanish juriscon- sults of his time , confesses , " that the Indies were in- corporated to the crown of Castile , as feudatory king- Essai Politique , chap . 12 , lib.5 . Ibid , chap . 6 , liv . 13 ...
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... side of the Atlantic , nor is the term colonies to be met with in their laws , or in the royal orders suc- cessively transmitted to them . § The inhabitants thereof , are , consequently , in right , and in the eye of the law , no more ...
... side of the Atlantic , nor is the term colonies to be met with in their laws , or in the royal orders suc- cessively transmitted to them . § The inhabitants thereof , are , consequently , in right , and in the eye of the law , no more ...
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An Exposé on the Dissentions of Spanish America ...: Intended as a Means to ... William Walton Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1814 |
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Էջ 375 - That God and nature put into our hands!" I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature, but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalpingknife — to...
Էջ 256 - ... there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity...
Էջ 375 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this House or in this country.
Էջ 376 - I call upon the honor of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own ! I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character...
Էջ 377 - Let them perform a lustration ; let them purify this House, and this country, from this sin. My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more ; but my feelings and indignation were too strong to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Էջ 376 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Էջ 324 - English literature on this as well as on the other side of the Atlantic.
Էջ 469 - Ireland was five hundred years in subduing; and after the vain projects of a military government, attempted in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it was soon discovered that nothing could make that country English, in civility and allegiance, but your laws and your forms of legislature. It was not English arms, but the English constitution, that conquered Ireland.
Էջ 375 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation. I call upon that right reverend and this most learned bench to vindicate the religion of their God, to support the justice of their country. I call upon the bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity of their lawn, upon the judges to interpose the purity of their ermine, to save us from this pollution.
Էջ 376 - Spain armed herself with blood-hounds to extirpate the wretched natives of America; and...