The Senator; or, Clarendon's parliamentary chronicle, Band 18 |
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... opinion on others that convey more folid information ; I mean those which are furnished by experience . I am fully fenfible of the inestimable value of peace to the country , and it will , by a geometrical progreffion , become more ...
... opinion on others that convey more folid information ; I mean those which are furnished by experience . I am fully fenfible of the inestimable value of peace to the country , and it will , by a geometrical progreffion , become more ...
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... opinion . From what I have heard on a former day , when this fubject was incidentally mentioned , I cannot fay I am ... opinion . The only difference of opinion arife from confidering how far , un- der the circumstances of the cafe , any ...
... opinion . From what I have heard on a former day , when this fubject was incidentally mentioned , I cannot fay I am ... opinion . The only difference of opinion arife from confidering how far , un- der the circumstances of the cafe , any ...
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... opinion of the House , and believing it to be the general opinion of the country , that it is defirable we should have the vigorous co - operation of the Emperor in this conteft , and knowing we cannot expect that co - operation unless ...
... opinion of the House , and believing it to be the general opinion of the country , that it is defirable we should have the vigorous co - operation of the Emperor in this conteft , and knowing we cannot expect that co - operation unless ...
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... opinion , it would furely be far more improper for me to ftate what I may confider as terms which ought to be accepted or rejected . This the Right Honourable Gentleman does not require , and if any perfon was fo foolish as to demand ...
... opinion , it would furely be far more improper for me to ftate what I may confider as terms which ought to be accepted or rejected . This the Right Honourable Gentleman does not require , and if any perfon was fo foolish as to demand ...
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... opinion he entertained of the value of a Continental diverfion , and therefore it was clear that , in contending for delay , they acted upon the principle of wholly rejecting the measure . The Honourable Gentleman affumed that the ...
... opinion he entertained of the value of a Continental diverfion , and therefore it was clear that , in contending for delay , they acted upon the principle of wholly rejecting the measure . The Honourable Gentleman affumed that the ...
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Seite xl - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
Seite xxxii - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Seite xli - The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
Seite xxxiii - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Seite xli - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another: that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which...
Seite xxxvii - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Seite xli - The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations.
Seite xl - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Seite xli - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Seite xxxv - States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them, of a policy in the general government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi...