The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volumen2J. Ballantyne and Company, 1811 |
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... forward in some distinct and tangible form , and not fasten a general declamation upon a question of this nature ? why not propose some practical remedy , a remedy as any minister could apply , and not continue to repeat his doctrine ...
... forward in some distinct and tangible form , and not fasten a general declamation upon a question of this nature ? why not propose some practical remedy , a remedy as any minister could apply , and not continue to repeat his doctrine ...
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... forward , then he has trans- ports ready for 4000 cavalry : In time of war , when every thing de- pends upon rapidity , then his econo- my will not allow transports for more than 7 or 800 ; his economy will have artillery horses that ...
... forward , then he has trans- ports ready for 4000 cavalry : In time of war , when every thing de- pends upon rapidity , then his econo- my will not allow transports for more than 7 or 800 ; his economy will have artillery horses that ...
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... forward with his cavalry and artillery on the same day that they landed , after having been a long time at sea . He agreed with ministers , that it would have been 1 useless to have encumbered the army with heavy artillery : -there ...
... forward with his cavalry and artillery on the same day that they landed , after having been a long time at sea . He agreed with ministers , that it would have been 1 useless to have encumbered the army with heavy artillery : -there ...
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... forward to obey : there was univer- sally to be found a disposition to sa crifice , a resolution to act , and a promptitude to determine in favour of the Spaniards . Never did any government , upon any occasion , meet with a more ...
... forward to obey : there was univer- sally to be found a disposition to sa crifice , a resolution to act , and a promptitude to determine in favour of the Spaniards . Never did any government , upon any occasion , meet with a more ...
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... forward to join and co - ope- rate with their companions in arms in the interior of Spain . The French emperor himself , too , quitted his ca- pital , to meet the Emperor of Russia at Erfurth ; and no sooner were the matters to be ...
... forward to join and co - ope- rate with their companions in arms in the interior of Spain . The French emperor himself , too , quitted his ca- pital , to meet the Emperor of Russia at Erfurth ; and no sooner were the matters to be ...
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Página 332 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Página 85 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The...
Página 417 - But I have it in express charge from the President to state that while he forbears to insist on the further punishment of the offending officer, he is not the less sensible of the justice and utility of such an example, nor the less persuaded that it would best comport with what is due from his Britannic Majesty to his own honor.
Página 223 - Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
Página 151 - Master French must mind what he is about, or I shall cut up him and his levy too.
Página 416 - Upon receiving through you, on the part of the American Government, a distinct and official Recognition of the three above-mentioned Conditions, His Majesty will lose no time in sending to America a Minister fully empowered to consign them to a formal and regular Treaty.
Página 3 - Portugal, and the deliverance of the kingdom of his ally from the presence and oppressions of the French army, his Majesty most deeply regretted the termination of that campaign by an armistice and convention, of some of the articles of which his Majesty has felt himself obliged formally to declare his disapprobation...
Página 269 - ... generate a kind of expansive force, that will burst asunder even the best compacted governments. The abuses, too, serve to give a direction to the discontent and angry feeling produced in the first instance by the taxes. They stand in the place of the abstract rights of a few years ago, and are the last improvement made in the machine for overturning states, from which it is conceived to derive a much greater heft and purchase, than in its old form of
Página 173 - I do, in the most solemn manner, upon my honour as a prince, distinctly assert my innocence, not only by denying all corrupt participation in any of the infamous transactions which have appeared in evidence at the bar of the house of commons, or any connivance at their existence, but also the slightest knowledge or suspicion that they existed at all.
Página 793 - I am confident, in no respect contribute to this object, nor could it I think be considered in any other light than as a dereliction of public principle. This answer which I must have given to any such proposal, if made while...