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... town . Upon the whole , the committee state , that the embarrassments at present experienced are of an ex- tensive nature , and though most severely felt among the manufac turers and merchants in the trades above specified , yet that ...
... town . Upon the whole , the committee state , that the embarrassments at present experienced are of an ex- tensive nature , and though most severely felt among the manufac turers and merchants in the trades above specified , yet that ...
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... town having been obliged , from the decrease of demand for their ma- nufactures , to discharge many of their workmen ... towns and villages . Though the obnoxious frames were the chief object of their hostility , they began to de- clare ...
... town having been obliged , from the decrease of demand for their ma- nufactures , to discharge many of their workmen ... towns and villages . Though the obnoxious frames were the chief object of their hostility , they began to de- clare ...
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... town of Ragosniza stands , and had taken shelter in a creek on the main . As the en- trance was narrow , and protected by three gun - boats , the lieutenant landed his armed men to take possession of a hill which appear- ed to command ...
... town of Ragosniza stands , and had taken shelter in a creek on the main . As the en- trance was narrow , and protected by three gun - boats , the lieutenant landed his armed men to take possession of a hill which appear- ed to command ...
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... town of Torres Novas , Thomar , and Pernes , in which the head quarters of some of the corps had been for four months , and in which the inhabi- tants had been induced by promises of good treatment to remain , they were plundered , and ...
... town of Torres Novas , Thomar , and Pernes , in which the head quarters of some of the corps had been for four months , and in which the inhabi- tants had been induced by promises of good treatment to remain , they were plundered , and ...
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... town , sent his heavy artillery and stores to Elvas , and concentrated his force to withstand the threat- ened assault . He marched forward to meet the enemy , and took a position near the village of Albue- ra ; and on the morning of ...
... town , sent his heavy artillery and stores to Elvas , and concentrated his force to withstand the threat- ened assault . He marched forward to meet the enemy , and took a position near the village of Albue- ra ; and on the morning of ...
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Seite 266 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Seite 141 - That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized, in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or modify her edicts, as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Seite 208 - AN Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively...
Seite 147 - With this evidence of hostile inflexibility, in trampling on rights which no independent nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armour, and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations.
Seite 36 - Martin gave notice of his intention to move for leave to bring in a bill to explain and amend the act of the 39th of the king relative to this subject.
Seite 326 - ... wearing an uniform added greatly to his natural awkwardness, for he wore it like a grocer of the trained bands. Sinclair was a Lieutenant-general, and was sent to the courts of Vienna and Turin, as a military envoy, to see that their quota of troops was furnished by the Austrians and Piedmontese. It was, therefore, thought necessary that his secretary should appear to be an officer, and Hume was accordingly disguised in scarlet.
Seite 330 - Union between that country and England. 'Were I an Irishman', said he, 'I should certainly wish for it; and, as a general lover of liberty, I sincerely desire it; and for this plain reason, that an inferior country, connected with one much her superior in force, can never be certain of the permanent enjoyment of constitutional freedom, unless she has, by her representatives, a proportional share in the legislature of the superior kingdom.
Seite 201 - George 4th, intituled an act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain and of the increase or diminution thereof (1831).
Seite 326 - His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes vacant and spiritless ; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman than of a refined philosopher.
Seite 327 - In London, where he often did me the honour to communicate the manuscripts of his additional essays, before their publication, I have sometimes, in the course of our intimacy, asked him whether he thought that, if his opinions were universally to take place, mankind would not be rendered more unhappy than they now were ; and whether he did not suppose that the curb of religion was necessary to human nature ? * The objections...