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... arms in the year 1778 , by the taking of Pondi- cherry , and the entire reduction of all the French fettlements in that part of the world , feemed , along with the powerful armies in the hands of the Eaft India Com- pany , and the naval ...
... arms in the year 1778 , by the taking of Pondi- cherry , and the entire reduction of all the French fettlements in that part of the world , feemed , along with the powerful armies in the hands of the Eaft India Com- pany , and the naval ...
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difficult to keep arms long unem- ployed in the hands of those who have been accustomed to use them with great effect and advantage . Such a reftraint requires a ftrong and immediate controul ; and is not easily practicable under a re ...
difficult to keep arms long unem- ployed in the hands of those who have been accustomed to use them with great effect and advantage . Such a reftraint requires a ftrong and immediate controul ; and is not easily practicable under a re ...
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... arm of military force is liable when employed fingly ; and being conftituted on the fame principles with the ancient feudal armies of Europe , they are like- wife fubject to all the difadvan- tages of that fyftem . They rush eagerly ...
... arm of military force is liable when employed fingly ; and being conftituted on the fame principles with the ancient feudal armies of Europe , they are like- wife fubject to all the difadvan- tages of that fyftem . They rush eagerly ...
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... arms , ammunition , and all thofe military neceffaries which enabled him in a very fhort time to renew the war with fo much fuccefs and advantage against the Marattas . That politic nation faw the infinite advantage that might be ...
... arms , ammunition , and all thofe military neceffaries which enabled him in a very fhort time to renew the war with fo much fuccefs and advantage against the Marattas . That politic nation faw the infinite advantage that might be ...
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... arms would only ferve to precipitate affairs into a ftill more ruinous and dangerous ftate . That a remote and doubt- ful danger would be readily hazarded , to efcape that which was certain and immediate . And , that however contrary to ...
... arms would only ferve to precipitate affairs into a ftill more ruinous and dangerous ftate . That a remote and doubt- ful danger would be readily hazarded , to efcape that which was certain and immediate . And , that however contrary to ...
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Página 322 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those...
Página 322 - Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Página 208 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Página 323 - 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 Gulph 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 323 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Página 208 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Página 323 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; -thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Página 205 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Página 205 - ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Página 205 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.