The North American Review, Volume 30University of Northern Iowa, 1830 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... treaty of peace . This is not true , although such a suggestion was made to France by Congress . To all hints of this sort , alike in regard to Canada , Nova Scotia , and the Floridas , the French ministry replied , that the king could ...
... treaty of peace . This is not true , although such a suggestion was made to France by Congress . To all hints of this sort , alike in regard to Canada , Nova Scotia , and the Floridas , the French ministry replied , that the king could ...
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... treaty of peace . This is not the place to examine the subject in all its parts , but there is one point on which we feel it our duty to speak in the present connexion . Our thoughts are called to it by an extraordinary passage in Mr ...
... treaty of peace . This is not the place to examine the subject in all its parts , but there is one point on which we feel it our duty to speak in the present connexion . Our thoughts are called to it by an extraordinary passage in Mr ...
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... treaty of peace in the very teeth of their instructions , without the knowledge of the French min- ister .'- Notions of the Americans , & c . Vol . 1. p . 77 . It would be difficult to comprise a larger number of errors within the same ...
... treaty of peace in the very teeth of their instructions , without the knowledge of the French min- ister .'- Notions of the Americans , & c . Vol . 1. p . 77 . It would be difficult to comprise a larger number of errors within the same ...
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... treaty , was chiefly owing to the firmness and superior patriotism of Mr Jay . Let us see how this accords with facts . Mr Jay arrived in Paris from Spain on the twenty - third of June . Two or three months before this date , the ...
... treaty , was chiefly owing to the firmness and superior patriotism of Mr Jay . Let us see how this accords with facts . Mr Jay arrived in Paris from Spain on the twenty - third of June . Two or three months before this date , the ...
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... treaty with the other powers will go more smoothly on . The Doctor did not , in the course of the above conversation , hesitate as to a conclusion with them , on account of any connexion with those other states , and in general seemed ...
... treaty with the other powers will go more smoothly on . The Doctor did not , in the course of the above conversation , hesitate as to a conclusion with them , on account of any connexion with those other states , and in general seemed ...
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Page 86 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 105 - If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace.
Page 502 - I am one of those, too, who, rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.
Page 309 - One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays to man is paid ; The plashing waters mark his resting-place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; Bright bubbles for a moment sparkle o'er. Then break, to be, like him, beheld no more ; Down, countless fathoms down, he sinks to sleep. With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep.
Page 522 - Here I am, Madam, gazing whole hours at the Maison quarree, like a lover at his mistress. The stocking weavers and silk spinners around it consider me a hypochondriac Englishman, about to write with a pistol the last chapter of his history. This is the second time I have been in love since I left Paris. The first was with a Diana at the Chateau de Laye-Epinaye in Beaujolois, a delicious morsel of sculpture, by MA Slodtz.
Page 73 - Indians within the chartered limits of the British colonies. It asserted, also, a limited sovereignty over them, and the exclusive right of extinguishing the title which occupancy gave to them. These claims have been maintained and established, as far west as the river Mississippi, by the sword.
Page 532 - The President was much inflamed; got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself; ran on much on the personal abuse which had been bestowed on him; defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the Government, which was not done on. the purest motives...
Page 534 - No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 96 - Experience has clearly demonstrated that, in their present state, it is impossible to incorporate them in such masses, in any form whatever, into our system.
Page 304 - Art! sweet Art! new radiance broke Where her light foot flew o'er the ground, And thus, with seraph voice she spoke — " The Curse a blessing shall be found.