The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine, conducted by R. Bisset with the assistance of other literary gentlemen, Volume 2Robert Bisset 1800 |
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... King of Great Britain . Before we come to the substance of the overtures , we have to make some re- marks on the mode in which they were proposed . The established form of transactions between foreign courts has been , through their ...
... King of Great Britain . Before we come to the substance of the overtures , we have to make some re- marks on the mode in which they were proposed . The established form of transactions between foreign courts has been , through their ...
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... KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND OF IRELAND . Paris , the 5th Nivose , 8th year of the Republic , ' CALLED by the wishes of the French nation to occupy the first magistracy of the Republic , I think it proper , on entering into office , to ...
... KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND OF IRELAND . Paris , the 5th Nivose , 8th year of the Republic , ' CALLED by the wishes of the French nation to occupy the first magistracy of the Republic , I think it proper , on entering into office , to ...
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... King has given frequent proofs of his sincere desire for the re - establishment of secure and permanent tranquillity in Europe . He neither is , nor has been engaged in any contest for a vain and false glory . He has had no other view ...
... King has given frequent proofs of his sincere desire for the re - establishment of secure and permanent tranquillity in Europe . He neither is , nor has been engaged in any contest for a vain and false glory . He has had no other view ...
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... King . His Majesty cannot forbear expressing the concern with which he observes in that note , that the unprovoked aggressions of France , the sole cause and origin of the war , are systematically defended by her present rulers , under ...
... King . His Majesty cannot forbear expressing the concern with which he observes in that note , that the unprovoked aggressions of France , the sole cause and origin of the war , are systematically defended by her present rulers , under ...
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... King and country to consider whether I have seen any thing in the character of this man that should lead me to com- mit myself and the rest of his Majesty's Ministers to his confiden- tial communications , with respect to the relative ...
... King and country to consider whether I have seen any thing in the character of this man that should lead me to com- mit myself and the rest of his Majesty's Ministers to his confiden- tial communications , with respect to the relative ...
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Página 146 - There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Página 143 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Página 286 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
Página 143 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Página 150 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Página 240 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Página 6 - The same system to the prevalence of which France justly ascribes all her present miseries, is that which has also involved the rest of Europe in a long and destructive warfare, of a nature long since unknown to the practice of civilized nations.
Página 10 - Majesty, if a sort of invitation were held out in favour of that Republican Government of which England adopted the forms in the middle of the last century, or an exhortation to recall to the throne that family whom their birth had placed there, and whom a revolution compelled to descend .from it.
Página 38 - Ay, i' the name of mischief, let him be the messenger. — For my part I wouldn't lend a hand to it for the best horse in your stable. By the mass ! it don't look like another letter ! It is, as I may say, a designing and malicious-looking letter ; and I warrant smells of gunpowder like a soldier's pouch ! — Oons ! I wouldn't swear it mayn't go off ! Acres. Out, you poltroon ! you han't the valour of a grasshopper. Dav. Well, I say no more — 'twill be sad news, to be sure, at Clod Hall ! but...
Página 143 - Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures. They can have no being in any other state of things ; and how can any man claim, under the conventions of civil society, rights which do not so much as suppose its existence...