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If , however , they held by those decisions , and not on the argument that the act was illegal , we have only further to suppose that the case was carried before a court of appeal , which would review the whole case independently of the ...
If , however , they held by those decisions , and not on the argument that the act was illegal , we have only further to suppose that the case was carried before a court of appeal , which would review the whole case independently of the ...
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But he who considers all the circumstances will be obliged to acknowledge that the whole policy of Austria since 1804 , including both her system of government and the isolated acts of her rulers , whether it has been worthy of blame or ...
But he who considers all the circumstances will be obliged to acknowledge that the whole policy of Austria since 1804 , including both her system of government and the isolated acts of her rulers , whether it has been worthy of blame or ...
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... very influence and power , by its superior worth and intelligence , and by its innate idealism , to overlook the practical considerations of political necessity , and to make itself the most dangerous element of the whole compound .
... very influence and power , by its superior worth and intelligence , and by its innate idealism , to overlook the practical considerations of political necessity , and to make itself the most dangerous element of the whole compound .
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If it could ever have been practically applied to the provinces of that state , the monarchy would have been broken up into a greater number of states than the whole of Europe now contains . Austrian statesmen then had full reason for ...
If it could ever have been practically applied to the provinces of that state , the monarchy would have been broken up into a greater number of states than the whole of Europe now contains . Austrian statesmen then had full reason for ...
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Its territory is national property , and the nation as a whole has a right to it . Moreover , the federal act binds the members of the Confederacy for ever . Secession would be a double treason - treason against the nation , and treason ...
Its territory is national property , and the nation as a whole has a right to it . Moreover , the federal act binds the members of the Confederacy for ever . Secession would be a double treason - treason against the nation , and treason ...
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Page 7 - The seat of judicial authority is, indeed, locally here, in the belligerent country, according to the known law and practice of nations ; but the law itself has no locality. It is the duty of the person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm...
Page 247 - Lo ! he comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain ! Thousand thousand saints, attending, Swell the triumph of his train ; Hallelujah ! God appears on earth to reign. 2 Every eye shall now behold him, Robed in dreadful majesty ; Those who set at nought and sold him, Pierced and nailed him to the tree, Deeply wailing, Shall the true Messiah see.
Page 115 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 7 - ... locality. It is the duty of the person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm ; to assert no pretensions on the part of Great Britain which he would not allow to Sweden in the same circumstances, and to impose no duties on Sweden, as a neutral country, which he would not admit to belong to Great Britain in the same character.
Page 26 - He maintains — that the right of visiting and searching merchant ships upon the high seas, whatever be the ships, whatever be the cargoes, whatever be the destinations, is an incontestable right of the lawfully commissioned cruisers of a belligerent nation.
Page 503 - A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.
Page 5 - ... by stationing a number of ships and forming as it were an arch of circumvallation around the mouth of the prohibited port. There, if the arch fails in any one part, the blockade itself fails altogether...
Page 105 - The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
Page 104 - Our royal master saw, with heedful eyes, The wants of his two universities : Troops he to Oxford sent, as knowing why That learned body wanted loyalty : But books to Cambridge gave, as, well discerning, That that right loyal body wanted learning.
Page 101 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.