The Edinburgh Annual Register, Bind 1;Bind 2,Del 1Walter Scott John Ballantyne and Company, 1811 |
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Side 4
... less unpopular than improper ; -and , dis . ciplinarian as he is , he ought to have known that no man should be en- trusted with command , who may not be called to a strict account for misconduct in it . He asked also , why Earl Moira ...
... less unpopular than improper ; -and , dis . ciplinarian as he is , he ought to have known that no man should be en- trusted with command , who may not be called to a strict account for misconduct in it . He asked also , why Earl Moira ...
Side 14
... less injurious to our interests than degrading to our reputation ; for Denmark was now ap- plying the whole of her naval force to a predatory warfare against our commerce , which suffered more from this single enemy than from all the ...
... less injurious to our interests than degrading to our reputation ; for Denmark was now ap- plying the whole of her naval force to a predatory warfare against our commerce , which suffered more from this single enemy than from all the ...
Side 35
... less justify that destination ; for of all the ca- lamities that can be inflicted upon a country , the conquest of it by a power not able to retain it is the greatest ; because it is thereby exposed to all the calamities and horrors of ...
... less justify that destination ; for of all the ca- lamities that can be inflicted upon a country , the conquest of it by a power not able to retain it is the greatest ; because it is thereby exposed to all the calamities and horrors of ...
Side 49
... less so , to attack him with a view to grant him such terms as would send him into Spain , from which , whilst in Portug gal , he was effectually cut off . Un- less ministers were prepared to say that they had been successful before ...
... less so , to attack him with a view to grant him such terms as would send him into Spain , from which , whilst in Portug gal , he was effectually cut off . Un- less ministers were prepared to say that they had been successful before ...
Side 60
... less reserve , and certainly more de- cency . " He then expatiated upon the signal abilities which Sir John Moore had displayed in Spain . " The march from Lisbon to Salamanca had been difficult beyond description ; yet , owing to his ...
... less reserve , and certainly more de- cency . " He then expatiated upon the signal abilities which Sir John Moore had displayed in Spain . " The march from Lisbon to Salamanca had been difficult beyond description ; yet , owing to his ...
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Side 290 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Side 330 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Side 221 - Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
Side 149 - Master French must mind what he is about, or I shall cut up him and his levy too.
Side 414 - Upon receiving through you, on the part of the American Government, a distinct and official Recognition of the three above-mentioned Conditions, His Majesty will lose no time in sending to America a Minister fully empowered to consign them to a formal and regular Treaty.
Side 107 - I was sensible, however, that the apathy and indifference of the Spaniards would never have been believed ; that, had the British been withdrawn, the loss of the cause would have been imputed to their retreat ; and it was necessary to risk this army to convince the people of England, as well as the rest of Europe, that the Spaniards had neither the power, nor the inclination, to make any efforts for themselves.
Side 415 - As it appears at the same time, that, in making this offer, his Britannic majesty derives a motive from the equality, now existing, in the relations of the United States, with the two belligerent powers, the president owes it to the occasion, and to himself, to let it be understood, that this equality is a result incident to a state of things, growing out of distinct considerations.
Side 747 - The experience of every day shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend.
Side 262 - ... hunger, to whom it must stand in the place of food and raiment ; while the same law did not scruple to permit the sale of these spirits by wholesale on the part of the rich merchant or still more opulent planter...
Side 68 - I care not whether you do it by a secret, a select committee, or a committee of the whole House ; for either of these will satisfy me, and will gain the object which the country must have in view." Mr Ponsonby then concluded by moving, " That it is indispensably necessary that this House should inquire into the causes, conduct, and events of the late campaign in Spain.