Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 1William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1802 - Great Britain |
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... tion , which it has been the great object of all Our Efforts to preserve , and which it is Our most sacred duty to transmit unimpair- ed to Our Descendants . HOUSE OF LORDS . Lord Bolton moved the address , which was as usual an echo to ...
... tion , which it has been the great object of all Our Efforts to preserve , and which it is Our most sacred duty to transmit unimpair- ed to Our Descendants . HOUSE OF LORDS . Lord Bolton moved the address , which was as usual an echo to ...
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... tion of those articles , which related to the integrity of our allies , particularly of the clause respecting the integrity of Portugal , whe- ther it was meant to preserve that power as it stood before the war , or , at the date of the ...
... tion of those articles , which related to the integrity of our allies , particularly of the clause respecting the integrity of Portugal , whe- ther it was meant to preserve that power as it stood before the war , or , at the date of the ...
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... tion of the seas which contained some of our of a considerable portion of that high re- most valuable possessions . These benefits spect , which he entertained for the hon . she enjoyed , though the language which she gentleman himself ...
... tion of the seas which contained some of our of a considerable portion of that high re- most valuable possessions . These benefits spect , which he entertained for the hon . she enjoyed , though the language which she gentleman himself ...
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... tion prevails in the country of the Grisons . The object , as far as we are able to judge , is to shake off the yoke of France ; but the miserable people are all divided amongst themselves , and all those who dare to strug- gle will ...
... tion prevails in the country of the Grisons . The object , as far as we are able to judge , is to shake off the yoke of France ; but the miserable people are all divided amongst themselves , and all those who dare to strug- gle will ...
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... tion . In exchange for her colonial produce , she will receive , from the United States of America a superabundance of every thing she will want for the repairing of her fleet , and for the victualling of her fleet and her army . The ...
... tion . In exchange for her colonial produce , she will receive , from the United States of America a superabundance of every thing she will want for the repairing of her fleet , and for the victualling of her fleet and her army . The ...
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Page 47 - Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary states, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war, on our failure to comply before a given day. The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean, with assurances to that power of our sincere desire to remain in peace, but with orders to protect our commerce against the threatened attack.
Page 675 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 45 - House of Representatives: It is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me that on meeting the great council of our nation I am able to announce to them on grounds of reasonable certainty that the wars and troubles which have for so many years afflicted our sister nations have at length come to an end, and that the communications of peace and commerce are once more opening among them.
Page 51 - Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed. If, in the course of your observations or inquiries, they should appear to need any aid within the limits of our constitutional powers, your sense of their importance is a sufficient assurance they will occupy your attention.
Page 907 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant nor his maidservant, nor his ox nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Page 51 - And shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land ? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe...
Page 909 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 491 - His Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which his subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the territory of Spain in that part of the world, four months after the ratification of the...
Page 49 - These considerations render it important that we should, at every session, continue to amend the defects: which from time to time show themselves in the laws for regulating the militia, until they are sufficiently perfect; nor should we now, or at any time, separate until we can say we have done every thing for the militia which we could do were an enemy at our door.
Page 51 - Considering the ordinary chances of human life, a denial of citizenship under a residence of fourteen years, is a denial to a great proportion of those who ask it ; and controls a policy pursued, frorn their first settlement, by many of these States, and still believed of consequence to their prosperity.