The North American Review, Volume 95Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1862 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... interest in the contest , not only desire to remain neutral , but to avail themselves of all the advantages of trade and commercial intercourse to which , but for the hostilities , they would be entitled with each of the belligerents ...
... interest in the contest , not only desire to remain neutral , but to avail themselves of all the advantages of trade and commercial intercourse to which , but for the hostilities , they would be entitled with each of the belligerents ...
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... interest of the belligerent being to cut off all supplies from his enemy , and the interest of the neutral being for the largest liberty of trade and commerce . Great Britain , as a belligerent , has hereto- fore insisted , against the ...
... interest of the belligerent being to cut off all supplies from his enemy , and the interest of the neutral being for the largest liberty of trade and commerce . Great Britain , as a belligerent , has hereto- fore insisted , against the ...
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... interest of the neutral , as well as for that of the belligerent , that the relations previously existing should be preserved , and , in the language of Sir William Scott , " you are not at liberty to conclude that any communication ...
... interest of the neutral , as well as for that of the belligerent , that the relations previously existing should be preserved , and , in the language of Sir William Scott , " you are not at liberty to conclude that any communication ...
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... interest of Great Britain . Noth- ing belonging to her or her subjects was taken or injured . There has not been a suggestion that the slight delay in the voyage of the Trent worked an injury to any one . On the contrary , one of the ...
... interest of Great Britain . Noth- ing belonging to her or her subjects was taken or injured . There has not been a suggestion that the slight delay in the voyage of the Trent worked an injury to any one . On the contrary , one of the ...
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... interest into the proper place of the main paramount public one , and possibly it may make the fortunes , the safety or the existence of a nation depend on the accident of a merely personal and pecuniary litigation . " Moreover , when ...
... interest into the proper place of the main paramount public one , and possibly it may make the fortunes , the safety or the existence of a nation depend on the accident of a merely personal and pecuniary litigation . " Moreover , when ...
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Page 292 - An ordinance, to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her, under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America." — We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the...
Page 496 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us, in convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the constitution of the United States of America...
Page 16 - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under an enemy's flag.
Page 12 - To preserve the commerce of neutrals from all unnecessary " obstruction, her Majesty is willing, for the present, to waive a " part of the belligerent rights appertaining to her by the Law of
Page 127 - The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity ; but a wounded spirit who can bear ? 15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge ; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Page 61 - In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD • and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD...
Page 389 - The pleasure given by wine is always mounting, and tending to a crisis, after which it declines: that from opium, when once generated, is stationary for eight or ten hours...
Page 509 - Mississippi, and the navigable waters leading into the same, shall be common highways, and forever free as well to the inhabitants of said State, as to all other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll therefor, imposed by the said State of Iowa.
Page 398 - ... bringest an assuaging balm ; eloquent opium ! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath ; and to the guilty man for one night...
Page 37 - Upon this footing Messrs. Mason and Slidell, who are expressly stated by Mr. Seward to have been sent as pretended ministers plenipotentiary from the southern States to the courts of St. James and of Paris, must have been sent, and would have been, if at all, received ; and the reception of these gentlemen upon this footing could not have been justly regarded, according to" the law of nations, as a hostile or unfriendly act towards the United States.