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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... produced . I am entirely convinced from a patient investi- gation of the subject , that the claims of the United States to West Florida are just under the treaty of St. Ildephonso , and this point Mr. Brackenridge appears to me to have ...
... produced . I am entirely convinced from a patient investi- gation of the subject , that the claims of the United States to West Florida are just under the treaty of St. Ildephonso , and this point Mr. Brackenridge appears to me to have ...
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... produced by the military aca- demies . We could not do better , in a country which professes to depend mainly upon its militia for the protection of its liberties both from foreign and domestic aggression , than to distribute throughout ...
... produced by the military aca- demies . We could not do better , in a country which professes to depend mainly upon its militia for the protection of its liberties both from foreign and domestic aggression , than to distribute throughout ...
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... produced among the moderns , and there would be something abject and con- tracted in the absence of this ambition , -must concur in orna- menting the national capital with massive and tasteful monuments . Architecture is one of the most ...
... produced among the moderns , and there would be something abject and con- tracted in the absence of this ambition , -must concur in orna- menting the national capital with massive and tasteful monuments . Architecture is one of the most ...
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... produced by special training and this can never be complete under any other au- spices than those of a national university . It will be perceived that I have confined myself in the present volume to a cursory notice of the literature of ...
... produced by special training and this can never be complete under any other au- spices than those of a national university . It will be perceived that I have confined myself in the present volume to a cursory notice of the literature of ...
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... produce or pamper an intellectual chlorosis . Recently , however , in Boston - where from early impressions and a natural action and re - action between the community and the neighbouring university , a more general and keener relish ...
... produce or pamper an intellectual chlorosis . Recently , however , in Boston - where from early impressions and a natural action and re - action between the community and the neighbouring university , a more general and keener relish ...
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Page 267 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page ii - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 212 - Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish...
Page 159 - ... parallel of north latitude, then that a line drawn from the said point due north or south, as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude, and from the point of such intersection due west along and with the said parallel, shall be the line of demarcation between the territories of the United States and those of His Britannic Majesty, and that the said line shall form the northern boundary of the said territories of the United States, and the southern...
Page 217 - I love true glory. It is this sentiment which ought to be cherished; and, in spite of cavils, and sneers, and attempts to put it down, it will finally conduct this nation to that height to which God and nature have destined it.
Page 216 - Within the limits of the United States, as defined by the treaty of 1783, and...
Page 133 - The southern boundary of the United States, which divides their territory from the Spanish colonies of East and West Florida, shall be designated by a line beginning on the River Mississippi, at the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of latitude...
Page 213 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 213 - Labrador; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors or possessors of the ground.
Page 280 - Nobody ever painted as he has done the facility of self-deception, the half self-conscious hypocrisy towards ourselves, with which even noble minds attempt to disguise the almost inevitable influence of selfish motives in human nature. This secret irony of the characterization is deserving of admiration as a storehouse of acuteness and sagacity; but it is the grave of enthusiasm.