The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Volume 24 |
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... danger , difficulty and discomfiture , so it was the highest character of firmness to meet the tide of success without intoxica- tion , to look it steadily in the face , to analyze the grounds upon which it stood , and from that ...
... danger , difficulty and discomfiture , so it was the highest character of firmness to meet the tide of success without intoxica- tion , to look it steadily in the face , to analyze the grounds upon which it stood , and from that ...
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... danger ; bearing hard upon our finances , yet ac- complishing neither object , but falling dead , as it were , between both . Such a plan as this every one must concur in con- demning . It was essentially hostile to the principle of ...
... danger ; bearing hard upon our finances , yet ac- complishing neither object , but falling dead , as it were , between both . Such a plan as this every one must concur in con- demning . It was essentially hostile to the principle of ...
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... danger to herself . That attack would yet , be trusted , be completely avenged ; that the most extensive ex- ertions would be made to convince the American government of its folly and desperation , and he had no doubt that the best hope ...
... danger to herself . That attack would yet , be trusted , be completely avenged ; that the most extensive ex- ertions would be made to convince the American government of its folly and desperation , and he had no doubt that the best hope ...
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... danger- ously involved in two great wars in the opposite extremities of Europe . These were wars in which he was not merely committed against the governments of countries , but in which the nations were arrayed against him . They were ...
... danger- ously involved in two great wars in the opposite extremities of Europe . These were wars in which he was not merely committed against the governments of countries , but in which the nations were arrayed against him . They were ...
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... danger . This was what the House were to congratulate themselves on , and for which they were to go to the Prince Regent with an Address , on the prosperous state of the country ! If this situation of affairs on the continent was good ...
... danger . This was what the House were to congratulate themselves on , and for which they were to go to the Prince Regent with an Address , on the prosperous state of the country ! If this situation of affairs on the continent was good ...
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