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... Conduct of the Opposition - Stute of Commerce - Riots in Lancashire - Capture of Madeira , St. Thomas , and St. Croix- Deseada - Loss of Reggio and Scylla - State of India - Attack on Cumona Fort - Remarks -State of Europe just before ...
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... conduct provoked re- proach , he was formally expelled . On leaving Oxford he repaired to London , where he coalesced with the whigs , but owing to his own negligence participated not in their muni- ficence : his tragedy of Phædra was ...
... conduct provoked re- proach , he was formally expelled . On leaving Oxford he repaired to London , where he coalesced with the whigs , but owing to his own negligence participated not in their muni- ficence : his tragedy of Phædra was ...
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... conduct she means to pursue , and from which she has never varied but from necessity alone . She pro- claims , my lords , that she will not only not lay down her arms , but will augment her force , until she has conquered the liberties ...
... conduct she means to pursue , and from which she has never varied but from necessity alone . She pro- claims , my lords , that she will not only not lay down her arms , but will augment her force , until she has conquered the liberties ...
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... conducted them- selves in not surrendering the naval rights of the country to the claims of those people ; and he ... conduct of ministers , who , by their mode of proceeding , had put it out of the power of the house to give a proof ...
... conducted them- selves in not surrendering the naval rights of the country to the claims of those people ; and he ... conduct of ministers , who , by their mode of proceeding , had put it out of the power of the house to give a proof ...
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... conduct on which these relations depended , he must be in possession of the correspondence which had taken place between our own govern ment and the governments of fo- reign nations , If he was to ex- press an opinion in general terms ...
... conduct on which these relations depended , he must be in possession of the correspondence which had taken place between our own govern ment and the governments of fo- reign nations , If he was to ex- press an opinion in general terms ...
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Page 144 - A common council, holden in the chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on Thursday, the 27th day of October, 1808, Resolved, That his majesty's answer be entered upon the journals.
Page 255 - Shall the revenue be reduced ? Or shall it not rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union, under the powers which Congress may already possess, or such amendment of the constitution as may be approved by the states...
Page 2 - That I should lay down my charge at a proper period is as much a duty as to have borne it faithfully. If some termination to the services of the Chief Magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution, or supplied by practice, his office, nominally for years, will in fact become for life ; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance.
Page 199 - Will you. to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 209 - Napoleon, by the grace of God and the constitution, emperor of the French, king of Italy, and protector of the confederation of the Rhine...
Page 250 - ... rights of neutrals only, and as the measure had been assumed by each as a retaliation for an asserted acquiescence in the aggressions of the other...
Page 208 - November last, by which vessels belonging to neutral, friendly, or even powers the allies of England, are...
Page 251 - Under a continuance of the belligerent measures which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, overspread the ocean with danger, it will rest with the wisdom of Congress to decide on the course best adapted to such a state of things; and bringing with them, as they do, from every part of the Union the sentiments of our constituents...
Page 178 - These measures, which are resorted to only in just retaliation of the barbarous system adopted by England, which assimilates its legislation to that of Algiers, shall cease to have any effect with respect to all nations who shall have the firmness to compel the English government to respect their flag.
Page 117 - All the places and forts in the kingdom of Portugal, occupied by the French troops, shall be delivered up to the British army, in the state in which they are at the period of the signature of the present Convention.