Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 4R. Bagshaw, 1803 - Great Britain |
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... means are ne- cessary to create a great and respectable navy fit to cope with ours . But these means , 1 atfirm , France has been labouring to ob tain : first , by excluding us from the Con- tinent : next , by preventing all British ma ...
... means are ne- cessary to create a great and respectable navy fit to cope with ours . But these means , 1 atfirm , France has been labouring to ob tain : first , by excluding us from the Con- tinent : next , by preventing all British ma ...
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... means for annoying them in their progress if they should proceed , they have not prepared any means of removing out of their reach the helpless , the infirm , the old men , the women and children , and they have not pre- pared any mode ...
... means for annoying them in their progress if they should proceed , they have not prepared any means of removing out of their reach the helpless , the infirm , the old men , the women and children , and they have not pre- pared any mode ...
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... means , not the plunder of the poorest sea port town in France to assist you ; scarcely , after the first six months , a single prize on the seas to enrich your sailors . -2 . I am to prove that no defensive system , as a defensive ...
... means , not the plunder of the poorest sea port town in France to assist you ; scarcely , after the first six months , a single prize on the seas to enrich your sailors . -2 . I am to prove that no defensive system , as a defensive ...
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... means of effecting that destruction , either by force of arms , or by the no less certain force of burthens laid upon the people , till they can no longer bear them . Holland , therefore , must be com- pletely freed from his controul ...
... means of effecting that destruction , either by force of arms , or by the no less certain force of burthens laid upon the people , till they can no longer bear them . Holland , therefore , must be com- pletely freed from his controul ...
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... means we have to curtail his power , to clip his wings , he hates us with all that deadly hate , which every mind of strong passions feels towards the object which stands be- tween it and its gratification .-- But there is another cause ...
... means we have to curtail his power , to clip his wings , he hates us with all that deadly hate , which every mind of strong passions feels towards the object which stands be- tween it and its gratification .-- But there is another cause ...
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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 883 - 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...
Page 389 - They, by a strange frenzy driven, fight for power, for plunder, and extended rule : we, for our country, our altars, and our homes. They follow an adventurer whom they fear, and obey a power which they hate : we serve a monarch whom we love — a God whom we adore.
Page 881 - Spain or her colonies, shall be admitted during the space of twelve years in the port of New Orleans, and in all other legal ports of entry within the ceded territory, in the same manner as the ships of the United States...
Page 887 - Whilst the property and sovereignty of the Mississippi and its waters secure an independent outlet for the produce of the Western States and an uncontrolled navigation through their whole course, free from collision with other powers and the dangers to our peace from that source, the fertility of the...
Page 271 - ... ships, vessels and goods, that are or shall be taken, and to hear and determine the same ; and, according to the course of Admiralty, and the law of nations...
Page 881 - ... that the French ships coming directly from France or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce and 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 389 - The throne we honour is the people's choice ; the laws we reverence are our brave fathers' legacy ; the faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind, and die with hope of bliss beyond the grave. Tell your invaders this, and tell them, too, we seek no change : and, least of all, such change as they would bring us.
Page 883 - America,] by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, Robert R. Livingston, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the said States, near the Government of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, Citizen Francis Barbe...
Page 881 - ARTICLE II. In the cession made by the preceding article are included the adjacent islands belonging to Louisiana, all public lots and squares, vacant lands, and all public buildings, fortifications, barracks, and other edifices which are not private property.