Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... minds must be furnished with whatever useful lessons are to be drawn from either fortune . We all know , and have felt what may be lost by the calamities of war , and what may be gained by a wise improvement of the advantages of peace ...
... minds must be furnished with whatever useful lessons are to be drawn from either fortune . We all know , and have felt what may be lost by the calamities of war , and what may be gained by a wise improvement of the advantages of peace ...
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... mind the moment , when these formidable enemies , after the extinction of every element of order and regular government in their own country , after the subjuga- tion of every foreign power whose alliance might assist us in our last ...
... mind the moment , when these formidable enemies , after the extinction of every element of order and regular government in their own country , after the subjuga- tion of every foreign power whose alliance might assist us in our last ...
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... minds are not disposed to it . What does that signify ? Let us make them vote by means of money . Without delay , therefore , they secretly order the minister of foreign affairs to dispose of four or five hundred thousand livres ...
... minds are not disposed to it . What does that signify ? Let us make them vote by means of money . Without delay , therefore , they secretly order the minister of foreign affairs to dispose of four or five hundred thousand livres ...
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... mind , that if the French could have succeeded in driving the Austrians and Prussians beyond the Rhine early in December , 1792 , they would without scruple have fallen upon Holland , although by the confession of the minister of war ...
... mind , that if the French could have succeeded in driving the Austrians and Prussians beyond the Rhine early in December , 1792 , they would without scruple have fallen upon Holland , although by the confession of the minister of war ...
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... mind , and to apply it to a subsequent part of the argument . The party , which had triumphed by such means , recollecting that the convention had been chosen for the express purpose of new - modelling the constitu- tion , although ...
... mind , and to apply it to a subsequent part of the argument . The party , which had triumphed by such means , recollecting that the convention had been chosen for the express purpose of new - modelling the constitu- tion , although ...
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