The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volumen8John Ballantyne and Company, 1817 |
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... appeared to form a focus for the seeds of discord , from which Europe was so happily relieved . Hence the prolongation of that war , notori- ously originating in the unprovoked aggression of America ; which aggres- sion , too , took ...
... appeared to form a focus for the seeds of discord , from which Europe was so happily relieved . Hence the prolongation of that war , notori- ously originating in the unprovoked aggression of America ; which aggres- sion , too , took ...
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... appearance which every thing still presented , and at the cir- cumstance of the country still keeping up an army of 40,000 men on the con- tinent . Finally , adverting to the in- ternal state of the country he express- ed it as his ...
... appearance which every thing still presented , and at the cir- cumstance of the country still keeping up an army of 40,000 men on the con- tinent . Finally , adverting to the in- ternal state of the country he express- ed it as his ...
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... appeared to This appeared to those who at the time were entrusted with the conduct of British policy , a crisis in which all minor considerations must yield to the necessity of a most vigorous exertion . Nothing short of an expenditure ...
... appeared to This appeared to those who at the time were entrusted with the conduct of British policy , a crisis in which all minor considerations must yield to the necessity of a most vigorous exertion . Nothing short of an expenditure ...
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... appearance be explained , but in a de- preciation in the value of our domestic currency ? The extraordinary circum- stance adverted to , of the price of gold falling in the course of last year to 41 . 4s . he ascribed to the then ...
... appearance be explained , but in a de- preciation in the value of our domestic currency ? The extraordinary circum- stance adverted to , of the price of gold falling in the course of last year to 41 . 4s . he ascribed to the then ...
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... appeared to him to be incontro- vertible , that this evil , excited in con- sequence of an excessive issue of bank paper , is , that the government were not duly vigilant over those issues , and that the renewal of the restriction ...
... appeared to him to be incontro- vertible , that this evil , excited in con- sequence of an excessive issue of bank paper , is , that the government were not duly vigilant over those issues , and that the renewal of the restriction ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 273 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 335 - A victim to the factions which distract my country, and to the enmity of the greatest powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British people.
Página 359 - ... improved into liberal arrangements on other subjects on which the parties have mutual interests, or which might endanger their future harmony. Congress will decide on the expediency of promoting such a sequel by giving effect to the measure of confining the American navigation to American seamen — a measure which, at the same time that it might have that conciliatory tendency, would have the further advantage of increasing the independence of our navigation and the resources for our maritime...
Página 295 - Art. XVII. The Ratifications shall be exchanged to-morrow the 4th, of July, at six o'clock in the morning at the Bridge of Neuilly. Art. XVIII. Commissioners shall be named by the respective parties, in order to watch over the execution of the present Convention.
Página 169 - ... those which they close, and perpetuate revenge and hatred and blood from age to age. Europe seemed to breathe after her sufferings. In the midst of this fair prospect, and of these consolatory hopes, Napoleon...
Página 162 - France with projects of confiision and disorder, he has deprived himself of the protection of the law, and has manifested to the universe, that there can be neither peace nor truce with him.
Página 327 - ... any number of individual powers in Europe, the day of retribution must come. " Not only, then, would it, in my opinion, be unjust in the sovereigns to gratify the people of France on this subject, at the expense of their own people, but the sacrifice they would make would be impolitic, at it would deprive them of the opportunity of giving the people of France a great moral lesson " During these agitating transactions, the articles of peace, so necessary for all parties, were at length finally...
Página 183 - ... peace with a war establishment, and a war to follow it ; recollect further, that whatever be your resources they must outlast those of all your enemies ; and further, that your empire cannot be saved by a calculation : besides, your wealth is only...
Página 294 - VIII. To-morrow, the 4th of July, at mid-day, St. Denis, St. Ouen, Clichy, and Neuilly, shall be given up.
Página 262 - My political life is terminated, and I proclaim my son, under the title of Napoleon II., Emperor of the French.