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... Madrid 456 Extract of a Letter from Messina 459 New Frigorific Powder 459 Man with a Horn growing out of his forehead 461 Character of the late Robert Fulton , Esq . 462 CORRIGENDA IN THE INTRODUCTION . Page xxi . Read " CONTENTS . vii.
... Madrid 456 Extract of a Letter from Messina 459 New Frigorific Powder 459 Man with a Horn growing out of his forehead 461 Character of the late Robert Fulton , Esq . 462 CORRIGENDA IN THE INTRODUCTION . Page xxi . Read " CONTENTS . vii.
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... Letters of Warden have been read , and has given them an im- portance to which they have no intrinsic claim whatever . Whe- ther Dr. Warden was really the writer of these Letters , or , as has been positively asserted in the English ...
... Letters of Warden have been read , and has given them an im- portance to which they have no intrinsic claim whatever . Whe- ther Dr. Warden was really the writer of these Letters , or , as has been positively asserted in the English ...
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... of audacious imposture , it would be dissipated by the letter of Count Mon- tholon which we have lately read in the newspapers , and which is acknowledged to have been written under his dictation . X AMERICAN REGISTER .
... of audacious imposture , it would be dissipated by the letter of Count Mon- tholon which we have lately read in the newspapers , and which is acknowledged to have been written under his dictation . X AMERICAN REGISTER .
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... letter from an officer of the American army , ( General Hamilton , ) who had means of obtaining accurate information . This account is alto- gether a most eloquent and interesting performance . As an his- torical document , it well ...
... letter from an officer of the American army , ( General Hamilton , ) who had means of obtaining accurate information . This account is alto- gether a most eloquent and interesting performance . As an his- torical document , it well ...
Página xvi
... letter from an emissary of Sir Henry Clinton , supposed to have been found among the papers of Arnold , and which contains an enumeration of the most plausible motives to defec- tion from the American cause . I have not been able to ...
... letter from an emissary of Sir Henry Clinton , supposed to have been found among the papers of Arnold , and which contains an enumeration of the most plausible motives to defec- tion from the American cause . I have not been able to ...
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Página iv - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Página 359 - Congress provided that ... a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a state in which a decision of the suit could be had...
Página 349 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a state, in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity...
Página 58 - Buoyed above the terror of death, by the consciousness of a life devoted to honorable pursuits, and stained with no action that can give me remorse, I trust that the request I make to your Excellency at this serious period, and which is to soften my last moments, will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor.
Página 349 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty, or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States...
Página 339 - States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.
Página 56 - The Board having maturely considered these facts, DO ALSO REPORT to His Excellency General Washington, that Major Andre, Adjutant General to the British Army, ought to be considered as a Spy from the enemy ; and that, agreeable to the law and usage of nations, it is their opinion he ought to suffer death.
Página 326 - That no person arrested or confined in jail, shall be treated with unnecessary rigor, or be put to answer any criminal charge, but by presentment, indictment or impeachment.
Página 313 - Cush. 451, it was held, in an action against a town to recover damages for an injury sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of a defective...
Página 337 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.