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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... spirit , Independence ! let us share : Lord of the lion heart , and eagle eye ! Thy steps we follow , with our bosoms bare , Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky . " Smollett VOLUME II . FROM MAY TO OCTOBER , 1814 . NEW - YORK ...
... spirit , Independence ! let us share : Lord of the lion heart , and eagle eye ! Thy steps we follow , with our bosoms bare , Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky . " Smollett VOLUME II . FROM MAY TO OCTOBER , 1814 . NEW - YORK ...
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... spirit of party . It is prejudicial to commerce . It tends to depress and degrade the commercial character , and to dissipate About other maritime interests , there have commercial influence . It operates against our been diplomatic ...
... spirit of party . It is prejudicial to commerce . It tends to depress and degrade the commercial character , and to dissipate About other maritime interests , there have commercial influence . It operates against our been diplomatic ...
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... spirit of political animosity which is destructive of the remedial powers of the constitution , to wait patiently for the free and efficient operation of public opinion , and in the mean time , with a humble trust in Divine Provi- dence ...
... spirit of political animosity which is destructive of the remedial powers of the constitution , to wait patiently for the free and efficient operation of public opinion , and in the mean time , with a humble trust in Divine Provi- dence ...
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... spirit of usurpation or encroachment could have entered into the councils of the deliverers of mankind , and the restorers of universal peace . they despise the American administration , as well they may , they know , neverthe- less ...
... spirit of usurpation or encroachment could have entered into the councils of the deliverers of mankind , and the restorers of universal peace . they despise the American administration , as well they may , they know , neverthe- less ...
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... the genius and subdue the spirit : sembly of persons , the most considerable that personal freedom shall no longer be and best qualified among you . We have for that purpose appointed a | special commission 26 THE EXAMINER .
... the genius and subdue the spirit : sembly of persons , the most considerable that personal freedom shall no longer be and best qualified among you . We have for that purpose appointed a | special commission 26 THE EXAMINER .
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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!