Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... allies ; unless we could be- hold without anxiety the rapid approaches of the same danger threatening the British dominions ; un- less we could sit at ease with the axe suspended over our heads , and wait with tranquillity of mind the ...
... allies ; unless we could be- hold without anxiety the rapid approaches of the same danger threatening the British dominions ; un- less we could sit at ease with the axe suspended over our heads , and wait with tranquillity of mind the ...
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... allies by the opening of the Scheldt , was justified upon no other ground than the main- tenance of the natural rights of the free people of Belgium ; when we recollect , that the final adjust- ment of that important question was ...
... allies by the opening of the Scheldt , was justified upon no other ground than the main- tenance of the natural rights of the free people of Belgium ; when we recollect , that the final adjust- ment of that important question was ...
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... allies , and of having fomented a general war in Europe , I charge that crime equally upon both these sanguinary factions . But who is the British subject that shall acquit both these sanguinary factions of the crime which they mutually ...
... allies , and of having fomented a general war in Europe , I charge that crime equally upon both these sanguinary factions . But who is the British subject that shall acquit both these sanguinary factions of the crime which they mutually ...
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... allies . By the possession of Antwerp and the measures which she had taken relative to the naviga- tion of the Scheldt , she had the means of annoying Holland in that quarter ; the possession of Liege gave her the command of the Meuse ...
... allies . By the possession of Antwerp and the measures which she had taken relative to the naviga- tion of the Scheldt , she had the means of annoying Holland in that quarter ; the possession of Liege gave her the command of the Meuse ...
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... allies . Brissot says , that " the evacuation of Belgium tarnished the glory of the French arms , and retarded " what he calls " the liberty of Europe . " The Netherlands , recovered under such circumstances , have not only been ...
... allies . Brissot says , that " the evacuation of Belgium tarnished the glory of the French arms , and retarded " what he calls " the liberty of Europe . " The Netherlands , recovered under such circumstances , have not only been ...
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