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... feized thofe opportunities of venting their dif- content at the fyftem of the times , and of reprefenting adminiftration in the fouleft colours , and imputing to them the most flagitious defigns . Nor were there wanting , among the ...
... feized thofe opportunities of venting their dif- content at the fyftem of the times , and of reprefenting adminiftration in the fouleft colours , and imputing to them the most flagitious defigns . Nor were there wanting , among the ...
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... feized the op- portunity of the late riots , to raise an alarm throughout the nation , that might be converted to the fup- port of the ruinous meafures in which he was ftill refolved to perfift . War , alone , was now become the objec ...
... feized the op- portunity of the late riots , to raise an alarm throughout the nation , that might be converted to the fup- port of the ruinous meafures in which he was ftill refolved to perfift . War , alone , was now become the objec ...
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... feized their convoys of provifions and ftores , and reduced them to the extremeft want of ammunition and neceffaries . Whenever they found an opportunity of attacking them to advantage , they never miffed it , and occafionally defeated ...
... feized their convoys of provifions and ftores , and reduced them to the extremeft want of ammunition and neceffaries . Whenever they found an opportunity of attacking them to advantage , they never miffed it , and occafionally defeated ...
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... feized a number of boats , rowed to the other fide , protected by fo heavy a difcharge of mutketry , that the enemy was obliged to re- tire , and leave them to land , which they did in the compacteft order . This was effected on the ...
... feized a number of boats , rowed to the other fide , protected by fo heavy a difcharge of mutketry , that the enemy was obliged to re- tire , and leave them to land , which they did in the compacteft order . This was effected on the ...
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... feized on Piz- zighitona and Cremona , two places of note . The main body under Buonaparte proceeded to Milan , af- ter taking Pavia , where all the Auf- trian magazines fell into the hands of the French . Buonaparte entered Milan the ...
... feized on Piz- zighitona and Cremona , two places of note . The main body under Buonaparte proceeded to Milan , af- ter taking Pavia , where all the Auf- trian magazines fell into the hands of the French . Buonaparte entered Milan the ...
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Página 300 - ... when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation — when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Página 295 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Página 302 - Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.
Página 295 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community ; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans, digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Página 302 - The considerations which respect the right to hold this conduct, it is not necessary, on this occasion, to detail. I will only observe, that according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the belligerent powers, has been virtually admitted by all.
Página 297 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true ; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence if not with favor upon the spirit of party.
Página 299 - So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Página 298 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 298 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all; religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 291 - I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety...