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... person for robbery and murder ; that we may do this in entire conformity with the received ameliorated codes of international law of the nine- teenth century , and without justly bringing on ourselves a murmur of disapprobation from any ...
... person for robbery and murder ; that we may do this in entire conformity with the received ameliorated codes of international law of the nine- teenth century , and without justly bringing on ourselves a murmur of disapprobation from any ...
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... persons taken fight- ing , or for having fought , in the battles of an open , general , regularly declared war , are not responsible as for crime com- mitted by the act of fighting against the country which they devastate and wrap in ...
... persons taken fight- ing , or for having fought , in the battles of an open , general , regularly declared war , are not responsible as for crime com- mitted by the act of fighting against the country which they devastate and wrap in ...
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... person , must answer it on the high places of the world , and to the whole extent of the undefinable responsibili- ties of war . If , therefore , McLeod had been a member of one of those bodies of troops which , during the last war ...
... person , must answer it on the high places of the world , and to the whole extent of the undefinable responsibili- ties of war . If , therefore , McLeod had been a member of one of those bodies of troops which , during the last war ...
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... persons , and carried off the whole Danish fleet . That is , she forcibly invades the Danish territory for the purpose of possessing herself of divers ships , of which , as against Den- mark , she had no right to take possession , not ...
... persons , and carried off the whole Danish fleet . That is , she forcibly invades the Danish territory for the purpose of possessing herself of divers ships , of which , as against Den- mark , she had no right to take possession , not ...
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... person from the gallows , I ask you to take one thing into your consideration . Sir , it is no answer at all to England to say , this is the affair of New York . She knows nothing even of that magnificent Empire State as a separate ...
... person from the gallows , I ask you to take one thing into your consideration . Sir , it is no answer at all to England to say , this is the affair of New York . She knows nothing even of that magnificent Empire State as a separate ...
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Página 296 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Página 171 - IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 182 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Página 318 - But if these things are done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Página 81 - Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, for the Purpose of Raising a Revenue by Act of Parliament.
Página 125 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Página 219 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 46 - ... The people have declared that, in the exercise of all powers given for these objects, it is supreme. It can, then, in effecting these objects, legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory. The constitution and laws of a state, so far as they are repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, are absolutely void. These states are constituent parts of the United States. They are members of one great empire. — for some purposes sovereign, for...
Página 201 - If the necessary article should in this mode cost more in time of peace, will not the security and independence thence arising form an ample compensation...
Página 56 - And shall also have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, or the Circuit Courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations, or a treaty of the United States.