The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen 166A. Constable, 1887 |
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... parties or witnesses thereto , are no doubt of immense importance for the elucidation of local genealogy and even general history ; but following each other without any connecting idea , they have rather a bewildering effect on the mind ...
... parties or witnesses thereto , are no doubt of immense importance for the elucidation of local genealogy and even general history ; but following each other without any connecting idea , they have rather a bewildering effect on the mind ...
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... parties to the bond consist of Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and forty - seven others , all bearing the surname of Scott , with the exception of five- one of these five being ' James Gladstaines of Cocklaw , ' an ancestor of Mr ...
... parties to the bond consist of Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and forty - seven others , all bearing the surname of Scott , with the exception of five- one of these five being ' James Gladstaines of Cocklaw , ' an ancestor of Mr ...
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... party can ever be said to have run cold . ' I conclude therefore that for reasons of state and reasons of war it is the prince's duty to aim ever at the enfeeblement and annihilation of his foe by stripping him , even treacherously , of ...
... party can ever be said to have run cold . ' I conclude therefore that for reasons of state and reasons of war it is the prince's duty to aim ever at the enfeeblement and annihilation of his foe by stripping him , even treacherously , of ...
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... party in the Roman vineyard , when the Borgia's hopes and schemes were wrecked for ever . We are inclined to accept . the opinion of the Venetian ambassador , based on the pro- fessional statement of Dr. Scipio , that the death of the ...
... party in the Roman vineyard , when the Borgia's hopes and schemes were wrecked for ever . We are inclined to accept . the opinion of the Venetian ambassador , based on the pro- fessional statement of Dr. Scipio , that the death of the ...
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... party clung to her throughout life , and perhaps embittered her feelings against her former friends . Madame de Maintenon's life is soon told , and no one can describe it more tersely than Ste . - Beuve . ' She was thrown young and poor ...
... party clung to her throughout life , and perhaps embittered her feelings against her former friends . Madame de Maintenon's life is soon told , and no one can describe it more tersely than Ste . - Beuve . ' She was thrown young and poor ...
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Página 151 - The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America...
Página 169 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 151 - Britain hereby declare, that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said Ship Canal; agreeing, that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Página 154 - Whatever highway may be constructed across the barrier dividing the two greatest maritime areas of the world must be for the world's benefit, a trust for mankind, to be removed from the chance of domination by any single power, nor become a point of invitation for hostilities or a prize for warlike ambition.
Página 166 - Her Britannic Majesty has commanded her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to declare that Her Majesty's Government cannot assent to the foregoing rules as a statement of principles of international law which were in force at the time when the claims mentioned...
Página 151 - The United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, being desirous of consolidating the relations of amity which so happily subsist between them, by setting forth and fixing in a Convention their views and intentions with reference to any means of communication by Ship Canal, which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the way of the River San Juan de Nicaragua and either or both of the Lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific Ocean, — The...
Página 151 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Página 28 - I watched his body night and day; No living creature came that way. I took his body on my back, And whiles I gaed, and whiles I sat; I digged a grave, and laid him in, And happed him with the sod sae green. But think na ye my heart was sair, When I laid the moul
Página 153 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.
Página 161 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...