The Edinburgh Annual Register, Τόμος 8John Ballantyne and Company, 1817 |
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Σελίδα vii
... Position of their Armies . Forces of Wellington - Of Blucher . Preparations of Buonaparte . His Plan of Attack . He fortifies the Frontier on the Austrian Line . Calls his best 200 Generals around him . Concentrates his Army at Avesnes ...
... Position of their Armies . Forces of Wellington - Of Blucher . Preparations of Buonaparte . His Plan of Attack . He fortifies the Frontier on the Austrian Line . Calls his best 200 Generals around him . Concentrates his Army at Avesnes ...
Σελίδα 24
... position . In January , 1814 , the ex- change with Hamburgh was at 28 ; before October it was 32. In January , 1814 , the price of gold in doubloons , was 51. 10s . per oz . ; before the end of the year it had fallen to 47. 9s . per oz ...
... position . In January , 1814 , the ex- change with Hamburgh was at 28 ; before October it was 32. In January , 1814 , the price of gold in doubloons , was 51. 10s . per oz . ; before the end of the year it had fallen to 47. 9s . per oz ...
Σελίδα 52
... position that the trade in grain was free , while there were so many taxes which pressed on our agriculturists . If the importation were open , there would be a bounty on foreign growers to im- port into our markets . Five millions of ...
... position that the trade in grain was free , while there were so many taxes which pressed on our agriculturists . If the importation were open , there would be a bounty on foreign growers to im- port into our markets . Five millions of ...
Σελίδα 113
... position of their medicines . He must also strongly contend that printers should be made responsible . Thus only a mound could be raised against a torrent of worthless publications from so many pamphleteers . " Monsieur Faure proceeded ...
... position of their medicines . He must also strongly contend that printers should be made responsible . Thus only a mound could be raised against a torrent of worthless publications from so many pamphleteers . " Monsieur Faure proceeded ...
Σελίδα 122
... position I have described : let us add to the sentiments with which they inspire us , that pride , the companion of the un- fortunate : and instead of sharing the common complaints upon the recep- tion of our brethren restored to us ...
... position I have described : let us add to the sentiments with which they inspire us , that pride , the companion of the un- fortunate : and instead of sharing the common complaints upon the recep- tion of our brethren restored to us ...
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Σελίδα 273 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Σελίδα 335 - A victim to the factions which distract my country, and to the enmity of the greatest powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British people.
Σελίδα 359 - ... improved into liberal arrangements on other subjects on which the parties have mutual interests, or which might endanger their future harmony. Congress will decide on the expediency of promoting such a sequel by giving effect to the measure of confining the American navigation to American seamen — a measure which, at the same time that it might have that conciliatory tendency, would have the further advantage of increasing the independence of our navigation and the resources for our maritime...
Σελίδα 295 - Art. XVII. The Ratifications shall be exchanged to-morrow the 4th, of July, at six o'clock in the morning at the Bridge of Neuilly. Art. XVIII. Commissioners shall be named by the respective parties, in order to watch over the execution of the present Convention.
Σελίδα 169 - ... those which they close, and perpetuate revenge and hatred and blood from age to age. Europe seemed to breathe after her sufferings. In the midst of this fair prospect, and of these consolatory hopes, Napoleon...
Σελίδα 162 - France with projects of confiision and disorder, he has deprived himself of the protection of the law, and has manifested to the universe, that there can be neither peace nor truce with him.
Σελίδα 327 - ... any number of individual powers in Europe, the day of retribution must come. " Not only, then, would it, in my opinion, be unjust in the sovereigns to gratify the people of France on this subject, at the expense of their own people, but the sacrifice they would make would be impolitic, at it would deprive them of the opportunity of giving the people of France a great moral lesson " During these agitating transactions, the articles of peace, so necessary for all parties, were at length finally...
Σελίδα 183 - ... peace with a war establishment, and a war to follow it ; recollect further, that whatever be your resources they must outlast those of all your enemies ; and further, that your empire cannot be saved by a calculation : besides, your wealth is only...
Σελίδα 294 - VIII. To-morrow, the 4th of July, at mid-day, St. Denis, St. Ouen, Clichy, and Neuilly, shall be given up.
Σελίδα 262 - My political life is terminated, and I proclaim my son, under the title of Napoleon II., Emperor of the French.