The Senator; or, Clarendon's parliamentary chronicle, Volume 18 |
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... most serious importance to this country , and he lamented moft fincerely that there was not in the House this day , after fo confiderable a recess , one Minister to give their Lordships information . He had enter- tained hopes , before ...
... most serious importance to this country , and he lamented moft fincerely that there was not in the House this day , after fo confiderable a recess , one Minister to give their Lordships information . He had enter- tained hopes , before ...
Page 1227
... . In my opinion the beft , and certainly the most fatisfactory way would be , to calculate it by the experience we have 2 be APRIL 26. ] PARLIAMENTARY CHRONICLE . 1227 which alone we are thus called upon to fanction In ...
... . In my opinion the beft , and certainly the most fatisfactory way would be , to calculate it by the experience we have 2 be APRIL 26. ] PARLIAMENTARY CHRONICLE . 1227 which alone we are thus called upon to fanction In ...
Page 1250
... most beneficial to our foreign commerce , to our domestic industry , to the increase of our ma nufactures , to the general credit of the country , to the various causes operating upon circulation , and connected with our re- fources ...
... most beneficial to our foreign commerce , to our domestic industry , to the increase of our ma nufactures , to the general credit of the country , to the various causes operating upon circulation , and connected with our re- fources ...
Page 1258
... most delicate fituation . Either they must ap- prove of tranfactions which there was no man who did not wish had never happened , or they muft withhold that approbation , and thus acknowledge that they have made conceffions under the ...
... most delicate fituation . Either they must ap- prove of tranfactions which there was no man who did not wish had never happened , or they muft withhold that approbation , and thus acknowledge that they have made conceffions under the ...
Page 1268
... most important interefts of the nation , to entertain any difcuffion upon a subject of fo much delicacy at the prefent moment . For whether I confider the occurrences which happened fome time ago , or the difficulties which now exift ...
... most important interefts of the nation , to entertain any difcuffion upon a subject of fo much delicacy at the prefent moment . For whether I confider the occurrences which happened fome time ago , or the difficulties which now exift ...
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Page xl - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
Page xxxii - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Page xli - The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
Page xxxiii - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Page xli - ... 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; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. 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...
Page xxxvii - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Page xli - The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations.
Page xl - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page xli - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Page xxxv - States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them, of a policy in the general government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi...