Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Teil 1

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R. Gibson, 1794
 

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Seite 355 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a King, and of a King of England too...
Seite 355 - ... die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honor and my blood, even in the dust.
Seite 88 - I cannot forbear to recommend a repeal of the tax on the transportation of public prints. There is no resource so firm for the government of the United States, as the affections of the people, guided by an enlightened policy; and to this primary good, nothing can conduce more than a faithful representation of public proceedings, diffused without restraint throughout the United States.
Seite 88 - Although I have not thought myself at liberty to forbid the sale of the prizes, permitted by our treaty of commerce with France to be brought into our ports ; i have not refused to cause them to be restored, when they were taken within the protection of our territory ; or by vessels commissioned or equipped in a warlike form within the limits of the United States.
Seite 88 - Nor can such arrangements, with such objects, be exposed to the censure or jealousy of the warmest friends of republican government. They are incapable of abuse in the hands of the militia, who ought to possess a pride in being the depository of the force of the Republic, and may be trained to a degree of energy, equal to every military exigency of the United States. But it is an inquiry, which cannot be too solemnly pursued, whether the act "more effectually to provide for the national defence by...
Seite 49 - ... wish it greater ; but he said he would deal freely with me, and tell me, if he were melancholy, (which he suspected himself of,) what was the true cause of it ; that he had somewhat...
Seite 88 - But here I cannot forbear to recommend a repeal of the tax on the transportation of public prints. There is no resource so firm for the government of the United States, as the affections of the people, guided by an enlightened policy ; and to this primary good, nothing can conduce more than a faithful representation of...
Seite 88 - ... experience in the several States has not detected some imperfections in the scheme ; and whether a material feature, in an improvement of it, ought not to be to afford an opportunity for the study of those branches of the military art, which can scarcely ever be attained by practice alone. The connexion of the United States with Europe has become extremely interesting. The occurrences...
Seite 346 - ... allegiance being nothing but an obedience according to law, which, when he violates, he has no right to obedience...
Seite 130 - The chamois has scarcely any cry, as most animals are known to have; if it has any it is a kind of feeble bleat, by which the parent calls its young. But in cases of danger, and when it is to warn the rest of the flock, it uses a hissing noise, which is heard at a great distance. For it is to be observed, that this creature is extremely vigilant, and has an eye the quickest and most piercing in nature.

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