Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... voted by the people ; particularly in the cases of Savoy , and of the Netherlands , of both which countries France had assumed the sove- reignty . 3d . The opening of the Scheldt , in direct violation of the most solemn treaties ...
... voted by the people ; particularly in the cases of Savoy , and of the Netherlands , of both which countries France had assumed the sove- reignty . 3d . The opening of the Scheldt , in direct violation of the most solemn treaties ...
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... vote by means of money . Without delay , therefore , they secretly order the minister of foreign affairs to dispose of four or five hundred thousand livres , ( 20,000l . ster- ling ) to make the mob of Brussels drunk , and to buy ...
... vote by means of money . Without delay , therefore , they secretly order the minister of foreign affairs to dispose of four or five hundred thousand livres , ( 20,000l . ster- ling ) to make the mob of Brussels drunk , and to buy ...
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... votes and resolu- tions made by what is called acclamation for their union , for which corruption paid in part , and ... voting ? " " What could the disarmed Belgians object to all this , surrounded as they were by seventy thousand men ...
... votes and resolu- tions made by what is called acclamation for their union , for which corruption paid in part , and ... voting ? " " What could the disarmed Belgians object to all this , surrounded as they were by seventy thousand men ...
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... voted the war ; and the blood which has been shed in the republick and without the republick in consequence of it shall be their proofs and their reasons . " Robespierre in his report on the 17th of November 1793 says , " with what base ...
... voted the war ; and the blood which has been shed in the republick and without the republick in consequence of it shall be their proofs and their reasons . " Robespierre in his report on the 17th of November 1793 says , " with what base ...
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... appear ? -No ! after having listened to this interesting report , the convention votes the following resolution : " The na tional convention , highly satisfied with the report of Barrere ON AN ADDRESS TO THE KING . 35.
... appear ? -No ! after having listened to this interesting report , the convention votes the following resolution : " The na tional convention , highly satisfied with the report of Barrere ON AN ADDRESS TO THE KING . 35.
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