Considerations on the Causes Objects and Consequences of the Present War,: And on the Expediency, Or the Danger of Peace with FranceJ. M'Creery, 1808 - 135 pàgines |
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Pàgina 20 - ... and England with a fleet that made her mistress of the seas, and which he did not think he should be able to equal in less than ten years. Two such countries, by a proper understanding, might govern the world, but by their strifes might overturn it.
Pàgina 18 - ... forces in Egypt, and against the British army in that quarter, insinuations and charges wholly destitute of foundation, and such as would warrant His Majesty in demanding that satisfaction, which, on occasions of this nature, independent Powers in a state of amity have a right to expect from each other. It discloses, moreover, views in the highest degree injurious to the interests of His Majesty's dominions...
Pàgina 90 - ... and engages never to recede from that system. He demands of England, complete satisfaction to all ,his subjects, for their just reclamations of vessels and merchandize, detained against the express tenor of treaties concluded in his own reign. ( The emperor engages, there shall be no re-establishment of concord, between Russia and England, till satisfaction shall have been given to Denmark.
Pàgina 84 - ... not more fatal to his interests than to those of the powers who were destined to be the instruments of its execution. It was time that the effects of that dread which France has inspired into the. nations of the world, should be counteracted by an exertion of the power of Great Britain, called for by the exigency of the crisis, and proportioned to the magnitude of the danger.
Pàgina 35 - As he spoke the hopes of freedom revived ; corruption shrunk from his glance, and the nation hailed him as her deliverer ; but no sooner was the prize within his grasp than he seized it with an eagerness, and retained it with a tenacity, which all the efforts of his opponents could neither impede nor relax. Having thus obtained the supreme power, the talents which had acquired it were employed with equal success to preserve it. The correction of abuses, the removal of peculation and corruption, the...
Pàgina 43 - Even the political opponents of Mr. Fox ought to have felt rightly on such a subject. They ought to have known, that it was no effort to his great and generous mind to reject the proposals of an avowed assassin. It is not on this account that he is intitled to our applause ; but it is because he had the virtue and the courage to bring Forwards into public life, and to exemplify in the most striking manner, one of the most important maxims of morality — that it is never expedient to do evil in the...
Pàgina 73 - That such doctrines have of late been asserted in this country, in the most open and profligate manner, is a dreadful symptom of that moral and intellectual depravity which precedes the fall of nations. To read the daily effusions of some of our popular writers, one would suppose that the human race was not the offspring of one common parent.