 | 1839 - 618 pages
...1792, when he said — ' I have seen what has been done by the West Indian 'Assemblies. It is arrant trifling. They have done little; and ' what they have done is good for nothing, for it is totally destitute ' of an executory principle.'* To this Act they appeal in 1815, as containing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1812 - 508 pages
...application would set to rights. I have seen what has been done by the West Indian Assemblies. It is arrant trifling. They have done little ; and what they have done is good for nothing ; for it is totally destitute of an executory principle. This is the point, to which I have applied... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1813 - 600 pages
...application would set to rights. I have seen what has been done by the West Indian assemblies. It is arrant trifling. They have done little; and what they have done is good for nothing; for it is totally destitute of an executory principle. This is the point to which I have applied my... | |
 | African Institution (London, England) - Antislavery movements - 1820 - 156 pages
...of them by Mr. Burke, " / have seen what has been done by the West- Indian Assemblies. It is arrant trifling. They have done little ; and what they have done is good for nothing; for it is totally destitute of an executory principle" From these considerations it is evident, that... | |
 | Arminianism - 1824 - 920 pages
...* « « arrant tfijlinif, they Kane done tittle, and what they hacf done is good for nothing- M *'* totally destitute of an executory principle.*' " I...as customary and operative law in all the Colonies. — The only exceptions at all capable of being enforced ft went to contradict tbe charges of the abolitionists,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Antislavery movements - 1823 - 586 pages
...and of other islands, " I have seen what has been done by the West Indian Assemblies. It is arrant trifling ; — they have done little, and what they have done is good for nothing, for it is totally destitute of an executory principle." Taking into consideration all the circumstances... | |
 | William Wilberforce - Antislavery movements - 1823 - 106 pages
...and of other islands, " I have seen what has been done by the West Indian Assemblies. It is arrant trifling ; • — they have done little, and what they have done is good for nothing, for it is totally destitute of an executory principle." Taking into consideration all the circumstances... | |
 | John Riland - Enslaved persons - 1827 - 270 pages
...about the same period : ' I have seen what has been done by the West-India Assemblies. It is arrant trifling. They have done little; and what they have done is good for nothing ; for it is totally destitute of an executory principle.' — Letter to Mr. Dundas (1792) on the Slave... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...application would set to rights. I have seen what has been done by the West Indian assemblies. It is arrant e t q3- q3- q3- ; for it is totally destitute of an executory principle. This is the point to which I have applied... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 660 pages
...would set to rights. • I have seen what has been done by the West Indian assemblies. It is arrant trifling. They have done little ; and what they have done is good for nothing ; for it is totally destitute of an executory principle. This is the point to which I have applied... | |
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I have seen what has been done by the West Indian Assemblies. It is arrant trifling. They have done little ; and what they have done is good for nothing, — for it is totally destitute of an executory principle. 
