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Is it , then , necessary to examine what were the terms of that ultimatum with
which we refused to comply ? Acts of hostility had been openly threatened
against our allies ; a hostility founded upon the assumption of a right which would
at once ...
Is it , then , necessary to examine what were the terms of that ultimatum with
which we refused to comply ? Acts of hostility had been openly threatened
against our allies ; a hostility founded upon the assumption of a right which would
at once ...
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Before the 18th Fructidor ( 4th September ) of the fifth year , the French
Government exhibited to foreign nations so uncertain an existence that they
refused to treat with it . After this great event , the whole power was absorbed in
the Directory ...
Before the 18th Fructidor ( 4th September ) of the fifth year , the French
Government exhibited to foreign nations so uncertain an existence that they
refused to treat with it . After this great event , the whole power was absorbed in
the Directory ...
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Lord Shelburne was appointed instead , and Fox refused to take office under him
. But that was not all . He not only refused to support Shelburne , but within six
months even formed a coalition against him with Lord North . Cooke , in his ...
Lord Shelburne was appointed instead , and Fox refused to take office under him
. But that was not all . He not only refused to support Shelburne , but within six
months even formed a coalition against him with Lord North . Cooke , in his ...
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... you demanded further explanations , and they were refused , you have no right
to urge the decree of the 19th of NovemDid you ber as an act of aggression . In
all your REJECTION OF OVERTURES . 117.
... you demanded further explanations , and they were refused , you have no right
to urge the decree of the 19th of NovemDid you ber as an act of aggression . In
all your REJECTION OF OVERTURES . 117.
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... and exerted their influence to save Europe from the consequence of a system
which was then beginning to manifest itself.20 It was , at least , a question of
prudence ; and as we had never refused to treat and to mediate with the old
princes ...
... and exerted their influence to save Europe from the consequence of a system
which was then beginning to manifest itself.20 It was , at least , a question of
prudence ; and as we had never refused to treat and to mediate with the old
princes ...
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Seite 178 - France, in a few years, described the whole circle of human society. All this was in the order of nature— when every principle of authority and civil discipline, when every principle which enables some men to command and disposes others to obey was extirpated from the mind by atrocious theories, and still more atrocious examples; when every old institution was trampled down with contumely, and every new institution covered in its cradle with blood ; when the principle of property itself, the sheet-anchor...
Seite 249 - Angel last replied. This having learn'd, thou hast attain'd the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in Heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world...
Seite 217 - ... satirist on his tyranny to be convicted and punished as a libeller ; and in this court, almost in sight of the scaffold streaming with the blood...
Seite 249 - A virgin is his mother, but his sire The power of the Most High : he shall ascend The throne hereditary, and bound his reign With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.
Seite 248 - Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Seite 155 - They have been swallowed up by that fearful convulsion, which has shaken the uttermost corners of the earth. They are destroyed and gone for ever. One asylum of free discussion is still inviolate. There is still one spot in Europe where man can freely exercise his reason on the most important concerns of society, where he can boldly publish his judgment on the acts of the proudest and most powerful tyrants.
Seite 242 - ... only refuge and consolation amidst the distresses and afflictions of the world. The poor and humble, whom it affects to pity, may be stabbed to the heart by it. They have more occasion for firm hopes beyond the grave than the rich and prosperous who have other comforts to render life delightful.
Seite 118 - The right honorable gentleman might here accuse himself, indeed, of reserve; but it unfortunately happened, that at the time the point was too clear on which side the aggression lay. Prussia was too sensible that the war could not entitle her to make the demand, and that it was not a case within the scope of the defensive treaty. This is evidence worth a volume of subsequent reasoning; for if, at the time when all the facts were present to their minds, they could not take advantage of existing treaties,...