Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly miscellany) [afterw.] The Political review and monthly mirror of the times, Volume 6Benjamin Flower 1809 |
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Page vii
... force or fraud is prohibited . " Various other just , and wise regulations are adopted ; the whole forming a tolerant code which promises the greatest advantages . These are some of the beneficial consequences of the French revolution ...
... force or fraud is prohibited . " Various other just , and wise regulations are adopted ; the whole forming a tolerant code which promises the greatest advantages . These are some of the beneficial consequences of the French revolution ...
Page x
... force of these delusions . The credit of the French bulletins has been warmly attacked ; but after perusing the official accounts of both parties , after allowing for that colouring which is usually applied by all writers of military ...
... force of these delusions . The credit of the French bulletins has been warmly attacked ; but after perusing the official accounts of both parties , after allowing for that colouring which is usually applied by all writers of military ...
Page xv
... force of arms , the power of France , will to the con- " fusion of the parties engaged , terminate in its increase ... forces , inay , more especially when aided by those 4 new , ingenious instruments of wholesale murder , the France and ...
... force of arms , the power of France , will to the con- " fusion of the parties engaged , terminate in its increase ... forces , inay , more especially when aided by those 4 new , ingenious instruments of wholesale murder , the France and ...
Page xxii
... force of the enemy , is in full retreat . " -War in itself , is seldom any thing but a system of complicated wickedness , and every thing connected with it shares the contami- nation . We can seldom depend on the veracity of the ...
... force of the enemy , is in full retreat . " -War in itself , is seldom any thing but a system of complicated wickedness , and every thing connected with it shares the contami- nation . We can seldom depend on the veracity of the ...
Page xxiv
... forces ; to frustrate which he had found it requisite hastily to retreat towards Portugal , leaving a great part of his sick and wounded at Talavera ; -that " Marshal Soult was in his rear with " a considerable force , that the ...
... forces ; to frustrate which he had found it requisite hastily to retreat towards Portugal , leaving a great part of his sick and wounded at Talavera ; -that " Marshal Soult was in his rear with " a considerable force , that the ...
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Page xciv - The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.
Page 191 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page iii - Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
Page 109 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 398 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt, or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force of the enemy, into whose power, by the events of war, they may.
Page lxxxvii - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 120 - It will be worthy at the same time of their just and provident care to make such further alterations in the laws as will more especially protect and foster the several branches of manufacture which have been recently instituted or extended by the laudable exertions of our citizens.
Page 300 - We have thought fit, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation...
Page 117 - States, suspended by this act, and by the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States...
Page 119 - These steps of the British Government led to the correspondence and the proclamation now laid before you, by virtue of which the commerce between the two countries will be renewable after the 10th day of June next.