Europe: Or, A General Survey of the Present Situation of the Principal Powers; with Conjectures on Their Future ProspectsO. Everett, 1822 - 451 strán (strany) |
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... observed that these two great European parties were at the present moment in respect of power pretty nearly balanced . In fact their popu- lation numerically computed is not very unequal : and if the Western nations are infinitely more ...
... observed that these two great European parties were at the present moment in respect of power pretty nearly balanced . In fact their popu- lation numerically computed is not very unequal : and if the Western nations are infinitely more ...
Strana 36
... observation in a political point of view . The debt is small , compared with the population and resources of the country , and in a rapid course of extinction . Taxes , to the full amount of the annual expenditure , are collected ...
... observation in a political point of view . The debt is small , compared with the population and resources of the country , and in a rapid course of extinction . Taxes , to the full amount of the annual expenditure , are collected ...
Strana 68
... observed in gen- eral , that it is utterly repugnant to the theory here stated , its leaders being among the most intelligent , wealthy , and respectable persons in the nation . Indeed , if there is any correctness in the view I have ...
... observed in gen- eral , that it is utterly repugnant to the theory here stated , its leaders being among the most intelligent , wealthy , and respectable persons in the nation . Indeed , if there is any correctness in the view I have ...
Strana 70
... would then be identified with theirs ; and there is little danger of mistake in predicting that their attachments and opinions will be determined by their interest . I observe with some surprise in the same article of 70.
... would then be identified with theirs ; and there is little danger of mistake in predicting that their attachments and opinions will be determined by their interest . I observe with some surprise in the same article of 70.
Strana 71
... observe with some surprise in the same article of the Edinburgh Review , to which I have already alluded , a disposition to countenance the imputation upon the liberal party of an ungovernable and sedi- tious spirit . The reviewers seem ...
... observe with some surprise in the same article of the Edinburgh Review , to which I have already alluded , a disposition to countenance the imputation upon the liberal party of an ungovernable and sedi- tious spirit . The reviewers seem ...
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Strana 409 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance; and all women and children scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others...
Strana 409 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force of the enemy...
Strana 409 - ... all women and children, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments, and shall not' be molested in their persons, nor shall their houses...
Strana 298 - Rousseau, which is not without a certain analogy in its forms to that of Burke. The principal of the Jesuits' college one day inquired of him by what art he had been able to write so well ;
Strana 302 - As regards merely the use of unpremeditated language, it is far from being a difficult attainment. A writer, whose opportunities of observation give weight to his opinion, says, in speaking of the style of the younger Pitt, " This profuse and interminable flow of words is not in itself either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit, and is exercised by every village lawyer with various degrees of power and grace.