The Examiner: Containing Political Essays on the Most Important Events of the Time; Public Laws and Official Documents, Հատոր 2editor., 1814 Containing political essays on the most important events of the time; public laws and official documents. |
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... coun- to receive or resist this prediction . But try . What I am about to say therefore I may be permitted to remark , that if is advanced with real diffidenee and hesi- there be any good sense in this idea , then our war must appear to ...
... coun- to receive or resist this prediction . But try . What I am about to say therefore I may be permitted to remark , that if is advanced with real diffidenee and hesi- there be any good sense in this idea , then our war must appear to ...
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... coun- may deal magnanimously with us . It try a boasting , gasconading administra- may be so . And if it should prove so , no tion , so contemptibly imbecile , as to be harm is done by remarks such as mine . unable to defend its own ...
... coun- may deal magnanimously with us . It try a boasting , gasconading administra- may be so . And if it should prove so , no tion , so contemptibly imbecile , as to be harm is done by remarks such as mine . unable to defend its own ...
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... coun- try than these ten million , the present usurers shall be considered as lenders , not according to the present contract , but up- on the terms most unfavourable to the country , upon which any part of the resi- due may be borrowed ...
... coun- try than these ten million , the present usurers shall be considered as lenders , not according to the present contract , but up- on the terms most unfavourable to the country , upon which any part of the resi- due may be borrowed ...
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... coun- be approved for soundness of principles , for try would be consulted by favouring the Ame- American character , and beneficial effects.rican citizens distinctly , and securing the The wisdom of the laws was manifested in ...
... coun- be approved for soundness of principles , for try would be consulted by favouring the Ame- American character , and beneficial effects.rican citizens distinctly , and securing the The wisdom of the laws was manifested in ...
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... coun- try has been made the victim . The general operation has been progressive ; and at length the effects are witnessed in that dreadful desolation of commerce , by which this war is characterized . According to that pretension , a ...
... coun- try has been made the victim . The general operation has been progressive ; and at length the effects are witnessed in that dreadful desolation of commerce , by which this war is characterized . According to that pretension , a ...
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The Examiner: Containing Political Essays on the Most Important ..., Հատոր 2 Barent Gardenier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1814 |
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Էջ 29 - An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States " which act is in the words following vizt.
Էջ 305 - Who, you all know, are honourable men : I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men.
Էջ 114 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Էջ 200 - The Desolator desolate ! The Victor overthrown ! The Arbiter of others' fate A Suppliant for his own ! Is it some yet imperial hope, That with such change can calmly cope ? Or dread of death alone...
Էջ 200 - But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!
Էջ 287 - Canadas to aid him in carrying into effect measures of retaliation against the inhabitants of the United States for the wanton destruction committed by their army in Upper Canada, it has become...
Էջ 114 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish.
Էջ 46 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States...
Էջ 200 - Thine evil deeds are writ in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain : If thou hadst died, as honor dies, Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world again; But who would soar the solar height, To set in such a starless night?
Էջ 200 - Foredoomed by God — by man accurst, And that last act, though not thy worst, The very Fiend's arch mock ! He, in his fall preserved his pride, And, if a mortal; had as proudly died!