Annual Register, Volume 43Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1802 - History |
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... circumstances confidered , we fhould be fo well justified in found ing our fpeculations . As far as an opinion could be formed from the public prints , it appeared to be quietly fubmitted to by the people of France ; and that country ...
... circumstances confidered , we fhould be fo well justified in found ing our fpeculations . As far as an opinion could be formed from the public prints , it appeared to be quietly fubmitted to by the people of France ; and that country ...
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... circumstance , that the honour able gentleman and his friends fhould only have begun to doubt where our enemies were ready to begin to combat . " There were two ways , Mr. Pitt obferved , in which the pre- fent fubject was to be ...
... circumstance , that the honour able gentleman and his friends fhould only have begun to doubt where our enemies were ready to begin to combat . " There were two ways , Mr. Pitt obferved , in which the pre- fent fubject was to be ...
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... not recommend a pufillanimous furren- der of a right , fo effential to our exiftence as a maritime ftate , from any confideration of circumstances . [ E 3 ] Never Never had a cafe occurred , in which , by HISTORY [ 53 OF EUROPE .
... not recommend a pufillanimous furren- der of a right , fo effential to our exiftence as a maritime ftate , from any confideration of circumstances . [ E 3 ] Never Never had a cafe occurred , in which , by HISTORY [ 53 OF EUROPE .
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... circumstances might require on the coufts of either France or of Spain , Le left a divifion of his fquadron to cover Porto - Ferrajo . On the 14th of September the admiral returned . His force , together with the fhips ftationed before ...
... circumstances might require on the coufts of either France or of Spain , Le left a divifion of his fquadron to cover Porto - Ferrajo . On the 14th of September the admiral returned . His force , together with the fhips ftationed before ...
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... circumstances I have flated , the reduction of the force first propofed , or the inferiority of the objects now in contemplation , compara vely with thefe originally designed ( among which the chief is known to have been the is it by ...
... circumstances I have flated , the reduction of the force first propofed , or the inferiority of the objects now in contemplation , compara vely with thefe originally designed ( among which the chief is known to have been the is it by ...
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Page 346 - These principles form the bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment : they should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic...
Page 346 - ... bestowed it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all. Relying, then, on the patronage of your...
Page 344 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good.
Page 344 - But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
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