Their allegiance is no optional duty, which they can decline, and resume at pleasure. It is a call which they are bound to obey : it began with their birth, and can only terminate with their existence. If a similarity of language and manners may make... The Monthly Magazine - Page 651813Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1813 - 1008 pages
...existence. " If a similarity of language and manners may make the exercise of this right more liable to partial mistakes, and occasional abuse, when practised towards vessels of the United States, the same circumstance makes it also a right, with the exercise of which, in regard to such vessels, it is more... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 680 pages
...existence. If a similarity of language and manners may make the exercise of this right more liable to partial mistakes, and occasional abuse, when practised...difficult to dispense. But, if to the practice of the United States, to harbour British seamen, be added their assumed right, to transfer the allegiance... | |
| Military art and science - 1812 - 640 pages
...existence. . , If n similarity of language and manners may make the exercise of this Right more liable to partial mistakes, and occasional abuse, when practised...make it also a right, with the exercise of which, in regnrd to such vessels, it is more difficult to dispense. But if, to the practice of the United States,... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1813 - 684 pages
...Par. 47. — " If a similarity of language and manpers may make the exercise of this right more liable to partial mistakes, and occasional abuse, when practised...to such vessels, it is more difficult to dispense. Par. 48.—" But if, to the practice of the United States, to harbour British seamen, be added their... | |
| Great Britain - 1813 - 494 pages
...existence. If a similarity of language and manners may make the exercise of this right more liable to partial mistakes, and occasional abuse, when practised...which, in regard to such vessels, it is more difficult todispense. But if, to the practice of the United States, to harbour British seamen, be added their... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...of this right more liable to partial mistakes, and occasional abuse, when practised towards vessel, of the United States, the same circumstances make...difficult to dispense. — But if, to the practice of the United Slates, to harbour British seamen, be added their assumed right, to transfer the allegiance... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 696 pages
...existence. If a similarity of language and manners may make the exercise of this right more liable to partial mistakes, and occasional abuse, when practised...the United States, the same circumstances make it abo a right, with the exercise of which, in regard to euch vessels, it is more difficult to dispense.... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1813 - 492 pages
...vessels «« of the United States, the same circumC " stances make it also a right, with the ex" ercise of which, in regard to such vessels, " it is. more difficult to dispense."— — The doctrine of allegiance, as here laid down, I admit, with some exceptions ; but, as to the right... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 548 pages
...their existence. If similarity of language and manners may make the exercise of this right more liable to partial mistakes and occasional abuse, when practised...vessels it is more difficult to dispense. But if to this practice of the United States, to harbour British seamen, be added their assumed right to transfer... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1814 - 830 pages
...manners may make the exercise ot this right more liable to partial mistakes, and occasional abuse, wht-n practised towards vessels of the United States, the...difficult to dispense. But if, to the practice of the United States, to harbour British seamen, be added their assumed right to transfer the allegiance... | |
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