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... France . 66 Nevertheless , though right be thus dethroned by might for a season , justice , " the common concern of mankind , " is the only true policy of all States , and the precedents of wrong sooner or later recoil on the wrongdoer ...
... France . 66 Nevertheless , though right be thus dethroned by might for a season , justice , " the common concern of mankind , " is the only true policy of all States , and the precedents of wrong sooner or later recoil on the wrongdoer ...
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... France . But is it not most probable , or indeed morally certain , that if France had not refused to co- operate with England and assist Denmark in her noble war of self - defence in 1865 , or had aided the minor States whom Prussia ...
... France . But is it not most probable , or indeed morally certain , that if France had not refused to co- operate with England and assist Denmark in her noble war of self - defence in 1865 , or had aided the minor States whom Prussia ...
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... France nouvelle , par M. Prevost - Paradol , ch . iii . p . 373 . ( k ) Pt . ii . ch . i . of this volume . ( 1 ) Mackintosh , Memoirs , vol . ii . p . 214 . ( m ) " La force matérielle , la force brutale , la guerre , puisqu'il faut l ...
... France nouvelle , par M. Prevost - Paradol , ch . iii . p . 373 . ( k ) Pt . ii . ch . i . of this volume . ( 1 ) Mackintosh , Memoirs , vol . ii . p . 214 . ( m ) " La force matérielle , la force brutale , la guerre , puisqu'il faut l ...
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... France has acquired Nice and Savoy - an acquisition from which she has derived no real bene- fit , and incurred much odium , and which she made ( p ) in opposition to the warning and wishes of her ally Great Britain . I may be allowed ...
... France has acquired Nice and Savoy - an acquisition from which she has derived no real bene- fit , and incurred much odium , and which she made ( p ) in opposition to the warning and wishes of her ally Great Britain . I may be allowed ...
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... France and England , as it should seem upon two grounds : - ( 1 ) That the sending of foreign troops to Greece was necessitated by the unneutral conduct of the Government of that country towards Russia , the enemy of France and England ...
... France and England , as it should seem upon two grounds : - ( 1 ) That the sending of foreign troops to Greece was necessitated by the unneutral conduct of the Government of that country towards Russia , the enemy of France and England ...
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Page 349 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 230 - Labrador; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 242 - ... with reference to any means of communication by shipcanal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua, and either or both of the lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific ocean ; the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Page 17 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 201 - The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Page 582 - He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by fine and imprisonment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the Court before which the offender is convicted; and imprisonment, if awarded, may be either with or without hard labour.
Page 230 - Parties, that the inhabitants of the said United States shall have forever, in common with the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every kind...
Page 230 - Islands, on the western and northern coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands...
Page 164 - Such Persons shall be first summoned to the Senate as the Queen by Warrant under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual thinks fit to approve, and their Names shall be inserted in the Queen's Proclamation of Union.
Page 243 - America ; nor will either make use of any protection which either affords or may afford, or any alliance which either has or may have, to or with any State or People for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast or any jiart of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...