Mr. Redhead Yorke's weekly political review, Volume 21807 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 1
... hope , admit the propriety of this deference to public opinion ; and , at the same time , be assured , that I am not the less penetrated with sentiments of gra titude , for their good intentions and favourable disposition towards me ...
... hope , admit the propriety of this deference to public opinion ; and , at the same time , be assured , that I am not the less penetrated with sentiments of gra titude , for their good intentions and favourable disposition towards me ...
Page 6
... hope , ere these observations reach my readers , the letters will have been laid before parliament . I have hitherto considered the matter merely as it concerns Mr. Fox's reputation , with which , during the time he was in ...
... hope , ere these observations reach my readers , the letters will have been laid before parliament . I have hitherto considered the matter merely as it concerns Mr. Fox's reputation , with which , during the time he was in ...
Page 9
... Hope , without waiting to know the sentiments of the secretary for the war department ; who the very next day told parliament , that it did not merit their thanks . They acted in the same manner on the capture of that important ...
... Hope , without waiting to know the sentiments of the secretary for the war department ; who the very next day told parliament , that it did not merit their thanks . They acted in the same manner on the capture of that important ...
Page 14
... hope , that the base conduct of the privateers of Louisiana will not be imitated , and that it will have no cause to regret that its too great confidence has been abused . " The ports are the Cape , Fort Dauphin , Port - de - Paix , the ...
... hope , that the base conduct of the privateers of Louisiana will not be imitated , and that it will have no cause to regret that its too great confidence has been abused . " The ports are the Cape , Fort Dauphin , Port - de - Paix , the ...
Page 17
... hope , that what the public would lose by the humiliation of her ancient rival , would be counter- balanced by her acquisitions in the midst of the general delapidation , and by the ag- grandizement and consequent preponderance which ...
... hope , that what the public would lose by the humiliation of her ancient rival , would be counter- balanced by her acquisitions in the midst of the general delapidation , and by the ag- grandizement and consequent preponderance which ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administration Alexander Davison appear assertion attack battle battle of Auerstadt battle of Jena battle of Pultusk Bennigsen bill Britain British Buonaparte catholic cavalry circumstances colonel colonies command conduct consequence consideration considered constitution continued corps court declared defence duty effect emperor empire enemy enemy's England established Europe expedition favour force foreign France French army friends give honour house of commons Indies interest islands justice king of Prussia late letter liberty lord Howick lord Wellesley lordship Maclean majesty majesty's ministers marshal means measure ment military militia Narew nation necessary negroes never object occasion officers opinion parliament patriotism peace persons Petersburgh Pitt planters political Porte possession present prince principles produce Prussian army Pultusk regiment resolutions respect shew shewn ships sir Home Popham slave trade soldiers sovereign spirit sugar tion treaty troops victory Vistula West India whole
Popular passages
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.