Chronicles of America Series, Tập 14

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Yale University Press, 1918
 

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Trang 219 - I will never send another Minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Trang 188 - I trust the popular branch of our Legislature will disapprove of it, and thus rid us of this infamous act, which is really nothing more than a treaty of alliance between England and the Anglomen of this country, against the Legislature and people of the United States.
Trang 124 - the Most Christian king," whose head had been cut off. Did not his engagements fall with his head? That was the very position taken by the government of the French Republic, which had asserted the right to decide what treaties of the old monarchy should be retained and what rejected. As an incident of the present case, the question was to be decided whether the ambassador of the French Republic should be received. Such were the issues that Washington's Administration had to face, at a time when the...
Trang 119 - ... protection and help ; and they shall be permitted to refresh and provide themselves, at reasonable rates, with victuals, and all things needful for the sustenance of their persons, or reparation of their ships, and...
Trang 118 - ... nor shall such prizes be arrested or seized when they come to and enter the ports of either party ; nor shall the searchers or other officers of those places search the same, or make examination concerning the lawfulness of such prizes...
Trang 112 - To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.
Trang 135 - ... that he had never repented but once the having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since ; that by Ood he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation ; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made Emperor of the world; and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a King.
Trang 217 - ... each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Trang 62 - In favor of this scheme, it is alleged that it would be unreasonable to pay twenty shillings in the pound, to one who had not given more for it than three or four. And it is added, that it would be hard to aggravate the misfortune of the first owner, who, probably through necessity, parted with his property at so great a loss, by obliging him to contribute to the profit of the person who had speculated on his distresses.
Trang 134 - You certainly never felt the Terrorism, excited by Genet in 1793, when ten thousand People in the Streets of Philadelphia, day after day, threatened to drag Washington out of his House, and effect a Revolution in the Government, or compell it to declare War in favour of the French Revolution, and against England.

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