The annals of our time [1837 to 1868]. [With] 1871 to1871 |
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... reference for the student with useful details for the general reader . The entire edition was exhausted within a few months from publication , while the approval given by the Press was so marked and universal as to excite a belief that ...
... reference for the student with useful details for the general reader . The entire edition was exhausted within a few months from publication , while the approval given by the Press was so marked and universal as to excite a belief that ...
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... reference to the intellectual activity of the age so far as this could be illustrated by personal , political , and ecclesiastical controversy , while it is hoped they will not think the text unduly burdened in setting forth legislative ...
... reference to the intellectual activity of the age so far as this could be illustrated by personal , political , and ecclesiastical controversy , while it is hoped they will not think the text unduly burdened in setting forth legislative ...
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... reference to any other authority . Brevity , of course , required to be studied in every instance ; and for the purpose of bringing the kernel of the occurrence before the reader in the shortest space , it has been sought as often as ...
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... reference to a single branch of inquiry , may through time attain that kind of perfection which includes all it is possible to exhibit for the reader's information . Here there can at best be only such an approximation to completeness ...
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... reference to persons and places . At the same time it will be found that the latter system has not been altogether ... references identifying them with some locality or individual . It was found that exclusive adherence to either system ...
... reference to persons and places . At the same time it will be found that the latter system has not been altogether ... references identifying them with some locality or individual . It was found that exclusive adherence to either system ...
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Page 451 - Privateering is, and remains, abolished ; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag ; 4.
Page 12 - it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
Page 431 - That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to direct...
Page 178 - Existing rights of every European nation should be respected, but it is due alike to our safety and our interests that the efficient protection of our laws should be extended over our whole territorial limits, and that it should be distinctly announced to the world as our settled policy that no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established on any part of the North American continent.
Page 12 - SIRS, I here present unto you Queen VICTORIA, the Undoubted Queen of this Realm : Wherefore All you who are come this Day to do your Homage, Are you willing to do the same...
Page 335 - She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign Ministers before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time ; and to have the drafts for her approval sent to her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they must be sent off.
Page 1 - Wales ; we, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this realm, being here assisted with these of his late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of London...
Page 178 - It is well known to the American people and to all nations, that this government has never interfered with the relations subsisting between other governments. We have never made ourselves parties to their wars or their alliances ; we have not sought their territories by conquest ; we have not mingled with parties in their domestic struggles ; and believing our own form of government to be the best, we have never attempted to propagate it by intrigues, by diplomacy, or by force.
Page 287 - Gentlemen — the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting-point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
Page 236 - An Act for the better Security of the Crown and Government of the United Kingdom.