The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, المجلد 2J. Ballantyne and Company, 1811 |
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الصفحة 9
... force upon a scale com- mensurate with the increasing dangers of our situation . Measures of vigour also will be necessary ; but these measures ought to be adopted under the guidance of wisdom and prudence , and care taken not to waste ...
... force upon a scale com- mensurate with the increasing dangers of our situation . Measures of vigour also will be necessary ; but these measures ought to be adopted under the guidance of wisdom and prudence , and care taken not to waste ...
الصفحة 10
... force of the country sent into the interior of Spain , the destruction of this monarchy is inevitable ; and that we shall soon be reduced to the same condition with Prussia and the conquered states of the continent . It is admitted upon ...
... force of the country sent into the interior of Spain , the destruction of this monarchy is inevitable ; and that we shall soon be reduced to the same condition with Prussia and the conquered states of the continent . It is admitted upon ...
الصفحة 11
... force had been made ready with unexampled expedition ; and in its application , mi- nisters had not only taken the advice of military men of high reputation at home , but had also consulted the Spaniards themselves , who , both in the ...
... force had been made ready with unexampled expedition ; and in its application , mi- nisters had not only taken the advice of military men of high reputation at home , but had also consulted the Spaniards themselves , who , both in the ...
الصفحة 13
... force . Then too would have been the mo- ment to have called upon Austria , to have told her that her existence depended upon immediate hostility against France , to have informed her that the forces of Britain and of Spain were ...
... force . Then too would have been the mo- ment to have called upon Austria , to have told her that her existence depended upon immediate hostility against France , to have informed her that the forces of Britain and of Spain were ...
الصفحة 16
... force to the Baltic , to co - operate with the King of Sweden . Now this measure had happened to be most critically opportune ; for the Mar- quis de Romana , who was then in the Isle of Funen , distinctly declared in this country , that ...
... force to the Baltic , to co - operate with the King of Sweden . Now this measure had happened to be most critically opportune ; for the Mar- quis de Romana , who was then in the Isle of Funen , distinctly declared in this country , that ...
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الصفحة 332 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
الصفحة 85 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The...
الصفحة 417 - But I have it in express charge from the President to state that while he forbears to insist on the further punishment of the offending officer, he is not the less sensible of the justice and utility of such an example, nor the less persuaded that it would best comport with what is due from his Britannic Majesty to his own honor.
الصفحة 223 - Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
الصفحة 151 - Master French must mind what he is about, or I shall cut up him and his levy too.
الصفحة 416 - Upon receiving through you, on the part of the American Government, a distinct and official Recognition of the three above-mentioned Conditions, His Majesty will lose no time in sending to America a Minister fully empowered to consign them to a formal and regular Treaty.
الصفحة 3 - Portugal, and the deliverance of the kingdom of his ally from the presence and oppressions of the French army, his Majesty most deeply regretted the termination of that campaign by an armistice and convention, of some of the articles of which his Majesty has felt himself obliged formally to declare his disapprobation...
الصفحة 269 - ... generate a kind of expansive force, that will burst asunder even the best compacted governments. The abuses, too, serve to give a direction to the discontent and angry feeling produced in the first instance by the taxes. They stand in the place of the abstract rights of a few years ago, and are the last improvement made in the machine for overturning states, from which it is conceived to derive a much greater heft and purchase, than in its old form of
الصفحة 173 - I do, in the most solemn manner, upon my honour as a prince, distinctly assert my innocence, not only by denying all corrupt participation in any of the infamous transactions which have appeared in evidence at the bar of the house of commons, or any connivance at their existence, but also the slightest knowledge or suspicion that they existed at all.
الصفحة 793 - I am confident, in no respect contribute to this object, nor could it I think be considered in any other light than as a dereliction of public principle. This answer which I must have given to any such proposal, if made while...