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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... sion . On this subject , I will barely remark , that milicia composed principally of substantial citi- zens , with whom war is not a profession , and whose love of civil order is habitual , must be pre- sumed not to require those rigid ...
... sion . On this subject , I will barely remark , that milicia composed principally of substantial citi- zens , with whom war is not a profession , and whose love of civil order is habitual , must be pre- sumed not to require those rigid ...
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... SION . " If , under ordinary circumstances , it will invite aggression , will it not invite it , when to the suggestions of interest , are added those of resentment , detestation , revenge ? And is it not time to think of these things ...
... SION . " If , under ordinary circumstances , it will invite aggression , will it not invite it , when to the suggestions of interest , are added those of resentment , detestation , revenge ? And is it not time to think of these things ...
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... sion inspectors shall be entitled to the pay , emoluments and allowances of a lieutenant- colo el of infantry ; brigade majors to the pay , emoluments and allowances of a major of in- act more effectually to provide for the na- tional ...
... sion inspectors shall be entitled to the pay , emoluments and allowances of a lieutenant- colo el of infantry ; brigade majors to the pay , emoluments and allowances of a major of in- act more effectually to provide for the na- tional ...
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... sion or rejection . I believed it to be my duty to embrace an indirect opportunity , which was afterwards afforded by the loan bill , of giving at some length the reasons which I had designed to urge in support of the resolution . To ...
... sion or rejection . I believed it to be my duty to embrace an indirect opportunity , which was afterwards afforded by the loan bill , of giving at some length the reasons which I had designed to urge in support of the resolution . To ...
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... sion or notice . My hopes of a repeal by withholding our provisions , and in a had vanished , when about a fortnight after- very few weeks after , by an almost unan- wards , to the utter astonishment of all imous vote removed it in fact ...
... sion or notice . My hopes of a repeal by withholding our provisions , and in a had vanished , when about a fortnight after- very few weeks after , by an almost unan- wards , to the utter astonishment of all imous vote removed it in fact ...
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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!