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... equal importance in both . The soldiery , however , entertain a very high opinion of these cumber- some engines , and ignorant men are much in the same predicament . The action of Schleitz , which the French magnified , in their usuai ...
... equal importance in both . The soldiery , however , entertain a very high opinion of these cumber- some engines , and ignorant men are much in the same predicament . The action of Schleitz , which the French magnified , in their usuai ...
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... equal to every exigency . The happy instance of their fertility of invention , which occasions my now addressing you , is of so very extraor- diuary a nature , and so far surpasses the powers of common minds , that it cannot be ...
... equal to every exigency . The happy instance of their fertility of invention , which occasions my now addressing you , is of so very extraor- diuary a nature , and so far surpasses the powers of common minds , that it cannot be ...
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... general Blucher , we ought to suspend our judgment relative to the serious charges which the king of Prussia , in his proclamation , has alleged German mile is nearly equal to six English miles . 55 " to " While the fortresses , " says 54.
... general Blucher , we ought to suspend our judgment relative to the serious charges which the king of Prussia , in his proclamation , has alleged German mile is nearly equal to six English miles . 55 " to " While the fortresses , " says 54.
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... equal strength , and impr'ance . are , no doubt , acquainted with the energic account drawn by Schiller , of the siege of this city , in the year 1631 , when , to use the historian's language , the imperial generals Lilly and Pappenheim ...
... equal strength , and impr'ance . are , no doubt , acquainted with the energic account drawn by Schiller , of the siege of this city , in the year 1631 , when , to use the historian's language , the imperial generals Lilly and Pappenheim ...
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... him , with as much ease as if his skin were made of glass . It were to be wished that the witness of them . All the facts enumerated above were mentioned to me by an cyc ་ alien office wéré gifted with equal penetration . Upon 68.
... him , with as much ease as if his skin were made of glass . It were to be wished that the witness of them . All the facts enumerated above were mentioned to me by an cyc ་ alien office wéré gifted with equal penetration . Upon 68.
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Page 90 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
Page 187 - It is first, and last, and midst in our minds. For. taking ground on that religious system, of which we are now in possession, we continue to act on the early received, and uniformly continued sense of mankind.
Page 277 - That it is contrary to the. first duties of the confidential servants of the Crown to restrain themselves by any pledge, expressed or implied, from offering to the King any advice which the course of circumstances may render necessary for the welfare and security of any part of his Majesty's extensive empire.
Page 268 - ... both as to place and process, as its functionaries may direct. The presence of the highest judicial authorities, to be assembled at this place within a few days, the means of pursuing a sounder course of proceedings here than elsewhere, and the aid of the Executive means, should the judges have occasion to use them...
Page 405 - Law, — in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and debasement the most sordid and the most pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more (I speak of ninetynine in a hundred at least), to use some of Tully's words, "nisi leguleius quidem cautus, et acutus praeco actionum, cantor formularum, auceps syllabarum.
Page 249 - He found at once that the attachment of the Western country to the present Union was not to be shaken; that its dissolution could not be effected with the consent of its inhabitants, and that his resources were inadequate as yet to effect it by force.
Page 11 - That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom...
Page 90 - Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal ; but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which though rarely called for are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country and some of them to its preservation.
Page 187 - This consecration is made, that all who administer in the government of men, in which they stand in the person of God Himself, should have high and worthy notions of their function and destination ; that their hope should be full of immortality ; that they should not look to the paltry pelf of the moment...
Page 90 - The present consideration of a national establishment, for education particularly, is rendered proper by this circumstance; also that, if Congress, approving the proposition, shall yet think it more eligible to found it on a donation of lands, they have it now in their power to endow it with those which will be among the earliest to produce the necessary income.