Cobbett's Political Register, 1. kötetWilliam Cobbett William Cobbett, 1802 |
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269. oldal
... Gonaïves , to form junction with the division disembarked at Port Ré publicain ( Port - au - Prince . ) " I cannot enough commend the conduct of Ad- miral Villaret . His experience has enabled us to act in the most difficult ...
... Gonaïves , to form junction with the division disembarked at Port Ré publicain ( Port - au - Prince . ) " I cannot enough commend the conduct of Ad- miral Villaret . His experience has enabled us to act in the most difficult ...
343. oldal
... Gonaïves . " I hope that by the beginning of Ventôse I shall have cleared the whole French part . We shall take no repose till all the troops of Toussaint are dispersed . The cultivators are returning in crowds ; nothing can equal the ...
... Gonaïves . " I hope that by the beginning of Ventôse I shall have cleared the whole French part . We shall take no repose till all the troops of Toussaint are dispersed . The cultivators are returning in crowds ; nothing can equal the ...
463. oldal
... Gonaïves , and for that reason I harassed them in that position as much as was in my power . With that view I dispatched General Debelle to Port - de - Paix , at the head of a division , and he had instructions to press hard , and drive ...
... Gonaïves , and for that reason I harassed them in that position as much as was in my power . With that view I dispatched General Debelle to Port - de - Paix , at the head of a division , and he had instructions to press hard , and drive ...
465. oldal
... Gonaïves . I was extremely anxious about the fate of Generals Debelle and Boudet , of whom I bad received no intelligence . " On the 6th I discovered by means of my spies the General Debelle had not succeeded in repulsing General ...
... Gonaïves . I was extremely anxious about the fate of Generals Debelle and Boudet , of whom I bad received no intelligence . " On the 6th I discovered by means of my spies the General Debelle had not succeeded in repulsing General ...
629. oldal
... Gonaïves , early in March , had retired into the woods with only 500 men . During the time the army was occupied against Dessalines , he recovered from his first fright , collected 500 more , effected a junction with Chris- tophe , who ...
... Gonaïves , early in March , had retired into the woods with only 500 men . During the time the army was occupied against Dessalines , he recovered from his first fright , collected 500 more , effected a junction with Chris- tophe , who ...
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47. oldal - Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary states, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war, on our failure to comply before a given day. The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean, with assurances to that power of our sincere desire to remain in peace, but with orders to protect our commerce against the threatened attack.
675. oldal - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
45. oldal - House of Representatives: It is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me that on meeting the great council of our nation I am able to announce to them on grounds of reasonable certainty that the wars and troubles which have for so many years afflicted our sister nations have at length come to an end, and that the communications of peace and commerce are once more opening among them.
51. oldal - Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed. If, in the course of your observations or inquiries, they should appear to need any aid within the limits of our constitutional powers, your sense of their importance is a sufficient assurance they will occupy your attention.
907. oldal - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant nor his maidservant, nor his ox nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
51. oldal - And shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land ? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe...
909. oldal - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
491. oldal - His Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which his subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the territory of Spain in that part of the world, four months after the ratification of the...
49. oldal - These considerations render it important that we should, at every session, continue to amend the defects: which from time to time show themselves in the laws for regulating the militia, until they are sufficiently perfect; nor should we now, or at any time, separate until we can say we have done every thing for the militia which we could do were an enemy at our door.
51. oldal - Considering the ordinary chances of human life, a denial of citizenship under a residence of fourteen years, is a denial to a great proportion of those who ask it ; and controls a policy pursued, frorn their first settlement, by many of these States, and still believed of consequence to their prosperity.