 | Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1823 - 392 sider
...an annual revenue of " 120 millions from the production of silk. " The system of commercial licences was no " doubt mischievous ! Heaven forbid that I...system, in its extent and rigour, was by me " regarded merely as a measure occasioned by " the war and temporary circumstances. " The difficulties and even... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 414 sider
...ordinary loaf-sugar, was preserved in a glasscase over the Imperial mantel-piece ; and a pound 1 f_ " The system of commercial licenses was no doubt mischievous....war and temporary circumstances. "—NAPOLEON, Las Cases, t. iv. p. 280, 283.] or two of beet-sugar, highly-refined, was sent to foreign courts- to illustrate... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 414 sider
...ordinary loaf-sugar, was preserved in a glasscase over the Imperial mantel-piece ; and a pound 1 f " The system of commercial licenses was no doubt mischievous....occasioned by the war and temporary circumstances.' 1 —NAPOLEON, Las Cases, t. iv. p. 280, 283.] or two of beet-sugar, highly-refined, was sent to foreign... | |
 | Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1835 - 792 sider
...an annual revenue of " 120 millions from the production of silk. " The system of commercial licences was no " doubt mischievous ! Heaven forbid that I...system, in its extent and rigour, was by me " regarded merely as a measure occasioned by " the war and temporary circumstances. " The difficulties and even... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1843 - 424 sider
...and general influ1 " The system of commercial licenses was no doubt mischievous. Heaven lOrhid that 1 should have laid it down as a principle. It was the...war and temporary circumstances." — NAPOLEON. Las Cases, torn, iv., pp. 280, 283. PUBLIC WORKS. 241 ence of a natural shower, the former will nevertheless... | |
 | Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1855 - 436 sider
...Italy I calculated on receiving an annual revenue of 120 millions from the production £ '11 of silk. "The system of commercial licenses was no doubt mischievous...system, in its extent and rigour, was by me regarded merely as a measure occasioned by the war and temporary circumstances. " The difficulties, and even... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 410 sider
...ordinary loaf-sugar, was preserved in a glasscase over the Imperial mantel-piece ; and a pound 1 F " The system of commercial licenses was no doubt mischievous....occasioned by the war and temporary circumstances."— NAPOLEOK, Lot Cam, t. iv. p. 260, 283.] or two of beet-sugar, highly-refined, was sent to foreign courts,... | |
 | Arthur Latham Conger, Robert Matteson Johnston - 1917 - 488 sider
...always laid the invention of the idea at the door of England. At St. Helena, he said to Las Cases, "The system of commercial licenses was no doubt mischievous. Heaven forbid that I should have adopted it as a principle. It was the invention of the English." What the public law of both governments... | |
 | Frank Edgar Melvin - 1919 - 478 sider
...Philadelphia Aurora, 29 Sept. 1810). Note also the criticisms of Niles in his Weehly Register, 1 :447. was the invention of the English ; with me it was only a momentary resource."36 That was his judgment at St. Helena upon his action. He had expressed a like opinion at... | |
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The system of commercial licenses was no doubt mischievous. Heaven forbid that I should have laid it down as a principle. It was the invention of the English ; with me it was only a momentary resource. Even the continental system, in its extent and rigour,... 