The Examiner: Containing Political Essays on the Most Important Events of the Time; Public Laws and Official Documents, Volumen2editor., 1814 Containing political essays on the most important events of the time; public laws and official documents. |
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... question , were deterred by the labour which the performance of their promise would subject them to ; and ha- ving , probably , as little respect for me , as they had for themselves , gave the matter A distinguished gentleman in Boston ...
... question , were deterred by the labour which the performance of their promise would subject them to ; and ha- ving , probably , as little respect for me , as they had for themselves , gave the matter A distinguished gentleman in Boston ...
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... question of impress- States wree equally sure of the restorationments in some way or other for the pres- ent . Make peace while your offer is yet of some value to England ; make peace while it is yet desirable to her ; make it before ...
... question of impress- States wree equally sure of the restorationments in some way or other for the pres- ent . Make peace while your offer is yet of some value to England ; make peace while it is yet desirable to her ; make it before ...
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... questions relating to the ownership of vessels , have been so completely settled by legislative regulations in the United States , that on this subject no special management , no official petulance , no electioneering artifice or ...
... questions relating to the ownership of vessels , have been so completely settled by legislative regulations in the United States , that on this subject no special management , no official petulance , no electioneering artifice or ...
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... questions respecting the war , with special at - war men will doubtless represent this propo- tention ; and conceive the course of argument sal , as unfair . They will say , that their op- followed by the friends of peace to be satis ...
... questions respecting the war , with special at - war men will doubtless represent this propo- tention ; and conceive the course of argument sal , as unfair . They will say , that their op- followed by the friends of peace to be satis ...
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... question turns only on modifica- short of the Mississippi . Many delegates from tions , in the exercise of it , to suit those singu- the middle states were disposed to limit our lar circumstances , in which Britain and Ame - empire , on ...
... question turns only on modifica- short of the Mississippi . Many delegates from tions , in the exercise of it , to suit those singu- the middle states were disposed to limit our lar circumstances , in which Britain and Ame - empire , on ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 46 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States...
Página 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?
Página 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!