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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... nations long en- tilence from among the nations . slaved and oppressed , can be dangerous to her , or to any nation which has yielded itself to her influence . All history shows that the Almighty suffers no such con nexion in human ...
... nations long en- tilence from among the nations . slaved and oppressed , can be dangerous to her , or to any nation which has yielded itself to her influence . All history shows that the Almighty suffers no such con nexion in human ...
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... nation give them- selves up to such fantasies , and the nation es itself up to such rulers ! mercial freedom , as we have a right , an undoubted , sacred right , to claim , depends upon her temper , and not upon our strength . I say ...
... nation give them- selves up to such fantasies , and the nation es itself up to such rulers ! mercial freedom , as we have a right , an undoubted , sacred right , to claim , depends upon her temper , and not upon our strength . I say ...
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... Nations are seldom found moderate , or just , or magnanimous , when powerful . And still more seldom towards those whom ... nation ever did possess , what very few individuals possess . If upon this oc- casion , she practises them , she ...
... Nations are seldom found moderate , or just , or magnanimous , when powerful . And still more seldom towards those whom ... nation ever did possess , what very few individuals possess . If upon this oc- casion , she practises them , she ...
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... nation . If we cannot re- store peace , we may do much to diminish the baneful effects of war . Such expedients , gentle- tlemen , as you may propose , to check the pro- gress of licentiousness , and impart energy to the laws , shall ...
... nation . If we cannot re- store peace , we may do much to diminish the baneful effects of war . Such expedients , gentle- tlemen , as you may propose , to check the pro- gress of licentiousness , and impart energy to the laws , shall ...
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... nation will say , war . But then we shall judge of the whole matter as we always have judged ; that is , soberly ... nation . Interest governs all we hear , her brave and hardy sons will be nations ; interest and passion . Interest found ...
... nation will say , war . But then we shall judge of the whole matter as we always have judged ; that is , soberly ... nation . Interest governs all we hear , her brave and hardy sons will be nations ; interest and passion . Interest found ...
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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!