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... last amendment , becaule he thought the extenfion of the Mutiny , Bill highly improper , without a more pre- cife definition of the meaning of the ex- tenfion . The ftanding army , though un- congenial with our conftitution , had of ...
... last amendment , becaule he thought the extenfion of the Mutiny , Bill highly improper , without a more pre- cife definition of the meaning of the ex- tenfion . The ftanding army , though un- congenial with our conftitution , had of ...
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... last feffion , to the future confideration of their Lordships , reminding them that the plea for felecting that defcription of men , who were esteemed in one part of the kingdom , at least , to be an ufeful body of traders , had been a ...
... last feffion , to the future confideration of their Lordships , reminding them that the plea for felecting that defcription of men , who were esteemed in one part of the kingdom , at least , to be an ufeful body of traders , had been a ...
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... last year in re- fpect to the Weft Indies , had proved , that under due regulations , our commerce with that quarter of the world had grown and encreafed confiderably fince the fepara- tion between Great Britain and the Uni- ted States ...
... last year in re- fpect to the Weft Indies , had proved , that under due regulations , our commerce with that quarter of the world had grown and encreafed confiderably fince the fepara- tion between Great Britain and the Uni- ted States ...
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... last for only four years , which made a fum upon the whole of 3,000,00ol . For this fum , of course , there ought to be a provifion made ; but from the ftate of the ountry there would , for the prefent at leaft , be no neceffity for ...
... last for only four years , which made a fum upon the whole of 3,000,00ol . For this fum , of course , there ought to be a provifion made ; but from the ftate of the ountry there would , for the prefent at leaft , be no neceffity for ...
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... last past , he , the deponent in company with Paul Maylor , Efq . and the Rev. William Paget Clerk , two of the agents appointed for the goods and stores feized and taken on the faid Plan for raising by fubfcription a Fund for a Joint ...
... last past , he , the deponent in company with Paul Maylor , Efq . and the Rev. William Paget Clerk , two of the agents appointed for the goods and stores feized and taken on the faid Plan for raising by fubfcription a Fund for a Joint ...
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Page 10 - The character of Captain Cook,' says Mr. Samwell, ' will be best exemplified by the services he has performed, which are universally known, and have ranked his name above that of any navigator of ancient or of modern times. Nature had endowed him with a mind vigorous and comprehensive, which in his riper years he had cultivated with care and industry. His general knowledge was extensive and various : in that of his own profession he was unequalled. With a clear judgment, strong masculine sense...
Page 396 - Chapel, the servants, grooms, and band, filed off without the south door. At the entrance the Dean and Prebendaries, attended by the choir, received the body : and the procession (having previously been formed, and being flanked by the military, every fourth man bearing a flambeau) moved down the south, aisle, and up the nave, into the choir, in the following order: — Poor Knights of Windsor.
Page 386 - Enemy aforementioned to neutral Places; but also from one Place belonging to an Enemy, to another Place belonging to an Enemy, whether they be under the Jurisdiction of the same Prince or under Several...
Page 216 - ... swamps do not render it incapable of cultivation, might be cultivated without cutting down one of them : Between the trees the ground is covered with grass, of which there is great abundance, growing in tufts about as big as can well be grasped in the hand, which stand very close to each other.
Page 459 - King, unless the lading be brought on shore in the presence of the officers of the Court of Admiralty, and an inventory made by them of the...
Page 383 - Majefties may have leave and licence to come with their fhips, as alfo with the merchandizes and goods on board the fame, the trade and importation whereof are not prohibited by the laws of either kingdom...
Page 383 - VI. The two high contracting parties have thought proper to fettle the duties on certain goods and merchandizes, in order to fix invariably the footing on which the trade therein fhall be eftablifhed between the two nations.
Page 12 - ... the records on which we ground our faith. NUMBER XII. AT the same time that it is fair to suppose there must be more than ordinary merit in men, who rise to great opulence and condition in life from low beginnings, all the world must be sensible of the danger attending sudden elevation, and how very apt a man's head is to turn, who climbs an eminence to which his habits have not familiarized him. A mountaineer can tread firm upon a precipice, and walk erect without tottering along the path that...
Page 133 - Swiflerland does not 3 confift confift merely in being peculiarly exempted from the burdens and miferies of war ; there is no country in which happinefs and content more univerfally prevail among the people. For, whether the government be ariftocratical, democratical, or mixed; abfolute or limited; a general fpirit of liberty pervades and actuates the feveral conftitutions: fo that even the oligarchical ftates (which, of all others, are ufually the moft tyrannical) are here peculiarly mild; and the...
Page 459 - ... or even after fuch declaration, if it were done within the times following ; that is to fay, if they were put on board fuch...