Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 4William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1803 - Great Britain |
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... reason to expect that a different line of conduct will be pursued on the termination of the present contest , should the whole of the French colonies fall into our hands ? With this impression on my mind , I am most decidedly of opinion ...
... reason to expect that a different line of conduct will be pursued on the termination of the present contest , should the whole of the French colonies fall into our hands ? With this impression on my mind , I am most decidedly of opinion ...
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... reason very truly , and very well ; but such reasoning is not suited to a " great commercial country , " to a country like this , " whose strength is its riches , " and who is to contend against the power of France by " capital , credit ...
... reason very truly , and very well ; but such reasoning is not suited to a " great commercial country , " to a country like this , " whose strength is its riches , " and who is to contend against the power of France by " capital , credit ...
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... reason be forgot- ten , viz . all the bloodshed and calamity , that such an event , even terminating in the way these gentlemen wish , would create ; and supposing , ( and the thing is certainly possi- ble ) the event should not be that ...
... reason be forgot- ten , viz . all the bloodshed and calamity , that such an event , even terminating in the way these gentlemen wish , would create ; and supposing , ( and the thing is certainly possi- ble ) the event should not be that ...
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... reason too ; if the declaration were not of that de- scription . If there was the least opening left for quibble or doubt , if every thing was not as fair , as it could by any possibility be made , you may rest assured , that , after ...
... reason too ; if the declaration were not of that de- scription . If there was the least opening left for quibble or doubt , if every thing was not as fair , as it could by any possibility be made , you may rest assured , that , after ...
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... reason to have the highest opinion , both of his head and his heart ; of the other I have the meanest and most contemptible opinion possible : he is , I believe , the poorest and least formidable man on the face of the earth , but it is ...
... reason to have the highest opinion , both of his head and his heart ; of the other I have the meanest and most contemptible opinion possible : he is , I believe , the poorest and least formidable man on the face of the earth , but it is ...
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Page 879 - THE President of the United States of America, and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, desiring to remove all source of misunderstanding relative to objects of discussion, mentioned in the second and fifth articles of the convention of the 8th...
Page 491 - ... come tell us your reason; What sayest thou to this ? Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason. Fal. What, upon compulsion? No; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 877 - The United States promise to execute Such treaties and articles as may have been agreed between Spain and the tribes and nations of Indians until by mutual consent of the United States and the said tribes or nations other Suitable articles Shall have been agreed upon.
Page 877 - ... that the French ships coming directly from France or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce or manufactures of France or her said colonies, and the ships of Spain coming directly from Spain or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce or manufactures of Spain or her colonies, shall be admitted during the space of twelve years in the...
Page 879 - Shall be exchanged in the Space of Six months after the date of the Signature by the Ministers Plenipotentiary or Sooner if possible. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have Signed these articles in the French and English languages; declaring nevertheless that the present Treaty was originally agreed to in the French language; and have thereunto affixed their Seals.
Page 879 - ... present treaty; and it shall be ratified in the same form and in the same time, so that the one shall not be ratified distinct from the other. Another particular convention, signed at the same date as the present treaty, relative to a definitive rule between the contracting parties is, in the like manner, approved, and will be ratified in the same form and in the same time, and jointly.
Page 881 - September, 1800), shall be paid according to the following regulations, with interest at six per cent, to commence from the periods when the accounts and vouchers were presented to the French Government.
Page 881 - September, 1800), the payment of which has been heretofore claimed of the actual Government of France, and for which the creditors have a right to the protection of the United States ; the said fifth article does not comprehend prizes whose condemnation has been or shall...
Page 389 - They offer us their protection : yes; such protection as vultures give to lambs — covering and devouring them ! They call on us to barter all of good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate chance of something better which they promise. Be our plain answer this : — The throne we honour is the people's choice; the laws we reverence are our brave fathers...
Page 885 - Congress in reviewing their resources will find means to meet the intermediate interest of this additional debt without recurring to new taxes, and applying to this object only the ordinary progression of our revenue; its extraordinary increase in times of foreign war will be the proper and sufficient fund for any measures of safety or precaution which that state of things may render necessary in our neutral position.