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... confidered with a view to its actual or probable confequences . It has already overturned thofe fa- vourite fyftems of policy and commerce , both in the old and in the new world , which the wisdom of ages and the power of the greatest ...
... confidered with a view to its actual or probable confequences . It has already overturned thofe fa- vourite fyftems of policy and commerce , both in the old and in the new world , which the wisdom of ages and the power of the greatest ...
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... confi- dered as the proper life of a mo- march , that ftate of eafe and infig- nificance , which fo many princes feem ... confidered as far the greatest . Nana Row was fucceeded by his eldeft fon Madai , who , dying without iffue ...
... confi- dered as the proper life of a mo- march , that ftate of eafe and infig- nificance , which fo many princes feem ... confidered as far the greatest . Nana Row was fucceeded by his eldeft fon Madai , who , dying without iffue ...
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... confidered in any degree as an equivalent . The exceffes committed on the taking of that rich city , tarnified the glory which the valour dif- played by the troops would other- wife have merited . The island of Salfette , after a brave ...
... confidered in any degree as an equivalent . The exceffes committed on the taking of that rich city , tarnified the glory which the valour dif- played by the troops would other- wife have merited . The island of Salfette , after a brave ...
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... confidered and declared as a direct violation of the treaty of Poonah ; and they were accompanied with . menaces , which , among all equal ftates , would be regarded as tanta- mount to a declaration of war . In cafe of non - compliance ...
... confidered and declared as a direct violation of the treaty of Poonah ; and they were accompanied with . menaces , which , among all equal ftates , would be regarded as tanta- mount to a declaration of war . In cafe of non - compliance ...
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... confidered as a fort of holi- day adventure , than a matter of difficulty and danger . Though expedition feems to conftitute the foul of fuch an en- terprize , the movements of the Bombay army were unaccountably flow . In a few days ...
... confidered as a fort of holi- day adventure , than a matter of difficulty and danger . Though expedition feems to conftitute the foul of fuch an en- terprize , the movements of the Bombay army were unaccountably flow . In a few days ...
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Page 323 - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth, in the bay of Fundy, to its source, and from its source, directly north, to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 210 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Page 322 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries...
Page 323 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Page 207 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Page 322 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Page 210 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 210 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Page 322 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...