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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... matters which remain for diplomatic discussion whenever some new transaction shall require it . - As the diplomatic correspondence has been of no avail to settle any principles of international law , but has rather left confusion worse ...
... matters which remain for diplomatic discussion whenever some new transaction shall require it . - As the diplomatic correspondence has been of no avail to settle any principles of international law , but has rather left confusion worse ...
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... matter . No treaty stipu- lation exists . Great Britain expressly refused to accede to certain principles which the United States desired to incorpo- rate into a treaty , and which , if incorporated , might have had an essential bearing ...
... matter . No treaty stipu- lation exists . Great Britain expressly refused to accede to certain principles which the United States desired to incorpo- rate into a treaty , and which , if incorporated , might have had an essential bearing ...
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... matter were un- settled , and that the parties to the treaty desired to have them made certain , in accordance with what they deemed to be the true principle ; or that by the rules of law , as generally re- ceived , the right or usage ...
... matter were un- settled , and that the parties to the treaty desired to have them made certain , in accordance with what they deemed to be the true principle ; or that by the rules of law , as generally re- ceived , the right or usage ...
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... matter in controversy would be ended at once on such a principle ; and we need not talk about , what would be an idle , as well as a ridiculous question , to wit , whether a journey of neutral territory from one neutral port to another ...
... matter in controversy would be ended at once on such a principle ; and we need not talk about , what would be an idle , as well as a ridiculous question , to wit , whether a journey of neutral territory from one neutral port to another ...
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... matter was all left open , and that as to the latter she has the right of capture , which she only waived in the Russian war , and has not parted with as against the United States by her agreement with other governments . * * In the ...
... matter was all left open , and that as to the latter she has the right of capture , which she only waived in the Russian war , and has not parted with as against the United States by her agreement with other governments . * * In the ...
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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.