The American Register, Or, Summary Review of History, Politics, and Literature, Volumes 1-2Robert Walsh Thomas Dobson and Son, 1817 - Europe |
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Page xv
... considerable fleet for many months in suc- cession , and emblazoned to the British public in the shape of a diary from an admiral , -are truly recollections of shame for a nation , who had selected the lion and not the wolf as her ...
... considerable fleet for many months in suc- cession , and emblazoned to the British public in the shape of a diary from an admiral , -are truly recollections of shame for a nation , who had selected the lion and not the wolf as her ...
Page xvii
... considerable , when the question is dispassionately examined . We are sadly wanting in officers of the stamp to be produced by the military aca- demies . We could not do better , in a country which professes to depend mainly upon its ...
... considerable , when the question is dispassionately examined . We are sadly wanting in officers of the stamp to be produced by the military aca- demies . We could not do better , in a country which professes to depend mainly upon its ...
Page xxiii
... considerable force of reasoning , attempts to prove that it is unwise in the people to desire to be admitted as one state , and that it would be impolitic in Congress to permit them . He states , the territory contains upwards of one ...
... considerable force of reasoning , attempts to prove that it is unwise in the people to desire to be admitted as one state , and that it would be impolitic in Congress to permit them . He states , the territory contains upwards of one ...
Page xxx
... considerable importation , would be more than compensated by the gain to the taste and understanding of the nation . The trea- sury might , likewise , well dispense with the duty on imported English literature , and , by its abrogation ...
... considerable importation , would be more than compensated by the gain to the taste and understanding of the nation . The trea- sury might , likewise , well dispense with the duty on imported English literature , and , by its abrogation ...
Page xxxii
... considerable schools of the kind . The cheapness of provisions and living generally , in the western states , renders this mode of reclaiming the mind from the brutishness of absolute illiteracy , proportionably cheap , and thus sets ...
... considerable schools of the kind . The cheapness of provisions and living generally , in the western states , renders this mode of reclaiming the mind from the brutishness of absolute illiteracy , proportionably cheap , and thus sets ...
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