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... admitted by all who are acquainted with the history of our Peninsular and Indian wars . But , I must take this opportunity of placing upon Myers was killed ; Cole himself , and Colonels Ellis , Blakeney , and Hawkshawe fell , badly ...
... admitted by all who are acquainted with the history of our Peninsular and Indian wars . But , I must take this opportunity of placing upon Myers was killed ; Cole himself , and Colonels Ellis , Blakeney , and Hawkshawe fell , badly ...
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... admitted that Sir H. Smith had got on the staff of the army , which was worth 5,000l . , but the question was , how long would he remain on it ? It was not usual for more than five years . Sir Henry had not before him the prospect of ...
... admitted that Sir H. Smith had got on the staff of the army , which was worth 5,000l . , but the question was , how long would he remain on it ? It was not usual for more than five years . Sir Henry had not before him the prospect of ...
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... admitted argues that every year , at the same pe- to be impolitic , he now deems to be unjust . riod , the prices have a tendency to rise , I think we are entitled to know before we but that at the beginning of another year go into ...
... admitted argues that every year , at the same pe- to be impolitic , he now deems to be unjust . riod , the prices have a tendency to rise , I think we are entitled to know before we but that at the beginning of another year go into ...
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... admitted that relief was required by some extraordinary measure . Such being the case , those who are in favour of a change of the Corn Laws would have argued — it is impossible for them not to have so argued that this formed an ...
... admitted that relief was required by some extraordinary measure . Such being the case , those who are in favour of a change of the Corn Laws would have argued — it is impossible for them not to have so argued that this formed an ...
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... admitted a partial exigency . He proposed a method which would meet that exigency . He believed there was a systematic and inveterate evil , and he indi- cated the measure which he thought was required to meet it . That was the position ...
... admitted a partial exigency . He proposed a method which would meet that exigency . He believed there was a systematic and inveterate evil , and he indi- cated the measure which he thought was required to meet it . That was the position ...
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Page 561 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Page 561 - There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Page 263 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem, So with two seeming bodies but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Page 409 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.
Page 581 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 561 - Congress have repeatedly, and not without success, directed their attention to the encouragement of manufactures. The object is of too much consequence not to insure a continuance of their efforts in every way which shall appear eligible.
Page 831 - But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young! Nor own your fathers hav.e been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Page 675 - Well, what do you think of your chief's plan?" Not knowing exactly what to say, but taking up a phrase which has been much used in the House, I observed, "Well, I suppose it is a 'great and comprehensive
Page 563 - He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacture, must be for reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins, and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of these; experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort...
Page 685 - I may have been wrong, but my impression was, first, that my duty towards a country threatened with famine required that that which had been the ordinary remedy under all similar circumstances should be resorted to — namely, that there should be free access to the food of man from whatever quarter it might come. I was prepared to give the best proof which public men generally can give of the sincerity of their opinions, by tendering my resignation of office, and devolving upon others the duty of...