 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 pages
...ville, prime B * ' minister 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 doubled down in dog'sears, to defend the cause of liberty; if I had, I myself would have... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - 1912 - 428 pages
...themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I come not here armed at all points with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute book doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. I would not debate a point... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 508 pages
...I invoke the discussion. On an occasion less important, Lord Chatham, after saying that he came not with the statute-book doubled down in dog's ears to defend the cause of liberty ; that he relied on a general principle, a constitutional principle, exclaimed, "It is a ground on... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 488 pages
...to submit to be slaves, 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 doubled down in dog's ears, to defend the cause of liberty. If I had, I myself would have... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1914 - 476 pages
...submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I came not here armed at all points, with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute-book doubled in dog'sears, to defend the cause of liberty ; if I had, I myself would have cited the two cases of... | |
 | 1915 - 340 pages
...or by exposing the sordid motives of British merchants and Boston smugglers, still less by coming " armed at all points with law cases and acts of Parliament,...statute-book doubled down in dog's ears " to defend either the cause of liberty or authority. The issue, shot through and through, as all great issues... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1922 - 526 pages
...common sense the letter of the law in which he was so deeply versed. To come, as Pitt scorned to do, armed at all points, with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute book "doubled down in 1 Mass. Hist. Soc., Proceedings, XLIX, 433. * Historical MSS. Commission,... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 pages
...themselves be made slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest. I come not here armed at all points with law cases and acts of Parliament, with the statute-book doubled down in dogs' ears, to defend the cause of liberty. I would not debate a particular point of law with the gentleman.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1898 - 684 pages
...to submit to be slaves, 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 doubled down in dog's-ears, to defend the cause of liberty: if I had, I myself would have cited the two cases of Chester... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 692 pages
...to submit to be slaves, 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 doubled down in dog's-ears, to defend the cause of liberty : if I had, I myself would have cited the two cases of Chester... | |
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I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. 
