The Weekly Register, Հատոր 2H. Niles, 1812 |
From inside the book
Փորձեք որոնել բոլոր հատորներում. favor
Արդյունքներ 0–ի 1-ից 0-ը:
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
amendment American amount appears appointed arms army authorised bank bill blockade Britain British government captain cause citizens command commerce committee congress consider consideration court declared decrees dollars duty East Florida embargo emperor enemy England English favor force foreign France French frigate gentleman governor guns Henry honor house of representatives important interest James JAMES MADISON JAMES MONROE king late legislature letter Lisbon lord lord Liverpool majesty majesty's majesty's government March measures ment merchants Milan decrees military millions minister motion nation navy necessary neutral New-York object officers opinion orders in council papers party passed patriotism peace persons port Portugal present president prince prince regent principles proceedings produce question Randolph received repeal resolution Resolved respect seamen secretary senate ship sir James Craig Spain Spanish taken tion trade treaty troops United vessels vote whole
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 6 - I call upon the honour 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 38 - ... justice; and others shroud yourselves beneath the mask of hypocrisy, and build your hopes of safety on the low arts of cunning, chicanery, and falsehood; yet do you not sometimes feel the gnawings of that worm which never dies? Do not the injured shades of Maverick, Gray, Caldwell, Attucks, and Carr, attend you in your solitary walks; arrest you even in the midst of your debaucheries, and fill even your dreams with terror?
Էջ 38 - Did not a reverence for religion sensibly decay? Did not our infants almost learn to lisp out curses before they knew their horrid import ? Did not our youth forget they were Americans, and regardless of the admonitions of the wise and aged, servilely copy from their tyrants those vices which finally must overthrow the empire of Great Britain ? And must I be compelled to acknowledge, that even the noblest, fairest part of all the lower creation, did not entirely escape the cursed snare...
Էջ 129 - ... that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness.
Էջ 6 - 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 96 - Congress concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies...
Էջ 19 - Great Britain, and in the midst of amicable professions and negotiations on the part of the British Government, through its public Minister here, a secret agent of that Government was...
Էջ 66 - Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
Էջ 19 - Massachusetts, in fomenting disaffection to the constituted authorities of the nation, and in intrigues with the disaffected, for the purpose of bringing about resistance to the laws, and, eventually, in concert with a British force, of destroying the union and forming the eastern part thereof into a political connection with Great Britain.
Էջ 40 - I fear it would take up too much of your time, should I attempt to call over the illustrious roll. But your grateful hearts will point you to the men ; and their revered names, in all succeeding times, shall grace the annals of America. From them, let us. my friends, take example ; from them, let us catch the divine enthusiasm ; and feel, each for himself, the godlike pleasure of diffusing happiness on all around us ; of delivering the oppressed from the iron grasp of tyranny ; of changing the hoarse...