The Examiner: Containing Political Essays on the Most Important Events of the Time; Public Laws and Official Documents, Volume 2editor., 1814 - United States Containing political essays on the most important events of the time; public laws and official documents. |
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... British account , EXTRACTS . 303 Porter , 113 Hillyar , captain , correspondence with Captain 368 158 829 Hindman , J. report , 188 65. 132 History of the Examiner , 392 Holland constitution , 1 215.231 . 247. 262. 280 $ 19 Holmes ...
... British account , EXTRACTS . 303 Porter , 113 Hillyar , captain , correspondence with Captain 368 158 829 Hindman , J. report , 188 65. 132 History of the Examiner , 392 Holland constitution , 1 215.231 . 247. 262. 280 $ 19 Holmes ...
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... British cabinet is as moderate , as it has been represented presumptuous and arrogant ; un- less it is as impartially and disinterestedly just , as it has been represented wicked and oppressive ; unless it is as magnanimous , as it has ...
... British cabinet is as moderate , as it has been represented presumptuous and arrogant ; un- less it is as impartially and disinterestedly just , as it has been represented wicked and oppressive ; unless it is as magnanimous , as it has ...
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... British siness correctly . It is not poor Mr. Gales government may perhaps operate with him as He would as soon ven- an additional motive to pursue it . Sweden , who says this . Denmark , Prussia and Spain , have the same ture to eat ...
... British siness correctly . It is not poor Mr. Gales government may perhaps operate with him as He would as soon ven- an additional motive to pursue it . Sweden , who says this . Denmark , Prussia and Spain , have the same ture to eat ...
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... British seamen , ment , of the Wis , of Brixen and Clagenfurth , who , on his capture , restored to him his jewels and specie to the amount of eighty thousand pounds . From the Albany Register . the capture of Gradiska and Trieste ...
... British seamen , ment , of the Wis , of Brixen and Clagenfurth , who , on his capture , restored to him his jewels and specie to the amount of eighty thousand pounds . From the Albany Register . the capture of Gradiska and Trieste ...
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... British origin or manufacture or not . To this At the commencement of the session , the president had congratulated congress on the encouragement to a prosecution of ment had declined submitting their con- troversy with us to THE ...
... British origin or manufacture or not . To this At the commencement of the session , the president had congratulated congress on the encouragement to a prosecution of ment had declined submitting their con- troversy with us to THE ...
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Page 29 - An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States " which act is in the words following vizt.
Page 305 - Who, you all know, are honourable men : I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men.
Page 114 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 200 - The Desolator desolate ! The Victor overthrown ! The Arbiter of others' fate A Suppliant for his own ! Is it some yet imperial hope, That with such change can calmly cope ? Or dread of death alone...
Page 200 - But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!
Page 287 - Canadas to aid him in carrying into effect measures of retaliation against the inhabitants of the United States for the wanton destruction committed by their army in Upper Canada, it has become...
Page 114 - 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 Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish.
Page 46 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 200 - Thine evil deeds are writ in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain : If thou hadst died, as honor dies, Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world again; But who would soar the solar height, To set in such a starless night?
Page 200 - Foredoomed by God — by man accurst, And that last act, though not thy worst, The very Fiend's arch mock ! He, in his fall preserved his pride, And, if a mortal; had as proudly died!