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... Captain Wright of the Vincenzo , now a Prisoner of War in France . - Agreed to . - King's Speech . - Session concludes . O N the 19th day of June , lord Hawkesbury delivered to the house a message from his majesty , to the following ...
... Captain Wright of the Vincenzo , now a Prisoner of War in France . - Agreed to . - King's Speech . - Session concludes . O N the 19th day of June , lord Hawkesbury delivered to the house a message from his majesty , to the following ...
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... captain Wright , and also of the engagement in which the Vincego was captured , but also of the subsequent hardships the gal- lant captain , and his brave officers and crew , had suffered , and were then suffering ; towards the conclu ...
... captain Wright , and also of the engagement in which the Vincego was captured , but also of the subsequent hardships the gal- lant captain , and his brave officers and crew , had suffered , and were then suffering ; towards the conclu ...
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... Captain Talbot.- Attack of the Island of Dominica by the French . - Steady Conduct of the Governor and Troops - saves the Island . - Shameful Rapacity of the French . Their Cowardice and precipitate Flight over the Atlantic , before an ...
... Captain Talbot.- Attack of the Island of Dominica by the French . - Steady Conduct of the Governor and Troops - saves the Island . - Shameful Rapacity of the French . Their Cowardice and precipitate Flight over the Atlantic , before an ...
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... captain Talbot , one of the most promising young officers in the service , who , by this means , and scarcely firing a gun , had the option of commanding one of the very finest and most desirable fri- gates in the French navy . But with ...
... captain Talbot , one of the most promising young officers in the service , who , by this means , and scarcely firing a gun , had the option of commanding one of the very finest and most desirable fri- gates in the French navy . But with ...
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... captain Harvey , who nobly seconded lord Nelson , having been boarded by a French line of battle ship on one side , and a Spanish on the other , and compelling both , after a vigor . ous contest , to strike to her , is too remarkable ...
... captain Harvey , who nobly seconded lord Nelson , having been boarded by a French line of battle ship on one side , and a Spanish on the other , and compelling both , after a vigor . ous contest , to strike to her , is too remarkable ...
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Página 727 - Nor was it uninteresting to the world, that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether freedom of discussion, unaided by power, is not sufficient for the propagation and protection of truth? Whether a government, conducting itself in the true spirit of its constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be written down by falsehood and defamation?
Página 903 - For this reason, and for no other, namely, that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive - what we could not discover in the stone - that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose...
Página 726 - Now reduced within limits too narrow for the hunter's state, humanity enjoins us to teach them agriculture and the domestic arts ; to encourage them to that industry which alone can enable them to maintain their place in existence, and to prepare them in time for that state of society which to bodily comforts adds the improvement of the mind and morals.
Página 598 - ... ships, vessels and goods, that are or shall be taken, and to hear and determine the same ; and, according to the course of Admiralty, and the law of nations...
Página 906 - ... intelligible mechanism by which it was carried on, he would perceive in this new observation nothing but an additional reason for doing what he had already done— for referring the construction of the watch to design and to supreme art. If that construction without this property, or, which is the same thing, before this property had been noticed, proved intention and art to have been employed about it, still more strong would the proof appear when he came to the knowledge of this further property,...
Página 906 - The first effect would be to increase his admiration of the contrivance, and his conviction of the consummate skill of the contriver. Whether he regarded the object of the contrivance, the distinct apparatus, the intricate, yet in many parts intelligible, mechanism by which it was carried on, he would perceive in this new observation nothing but an additional reason for doing what he had already done — for referring the construction of the watch to design, and to supreme art.
Página 725 - I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union. But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively ? The larger our association, the less will it be shaken by local passions...
Página 726 - ... they are combated by the habits of their bodies, prejudices of their minds, ignorance, pride, and the influence of interested and crafty individuals among them who feel themselves something in the present order of things and fear to become nothing in any other. These persons inculcate a sanctimonious reverence for the customs of their ancestors; that whatsoever they did must be done through all time; that reason is a false guide, and to advance under its counsel in their physical, moral, or political...
Página 905 - A law presupposes an agent ; for it is only the mode, according .to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the hue does nothing, is nothing. The expression, " the law of metallic nature...
Página 532 - I immediately stood towards the Enemy with the Squadron, making the needful signals for Battle in the closest order ; and, on closing with them, I made the signal for attacking their centre. When I had reached their rear, I tacked the Squadron in succession ; this brought us close up under their lee, and when our headmost Ships reached their centre the Enemy were tacking in succession ; this obliged me to make again the same manoeuvre, by which I brought on an action, which lasted upwards of four...