The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 8, Issue 15Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1808 |
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... himself of fuch places , as of any other poffeffion of his enemy . This is his common right ; but he has the certain means of carrying fuch a right into effect if he has a de- cided fuperiority at fea . Such colonies are dependent for ...
... himself of fuch places , as of any other poffeffion of his enemy . This is his common right ; but he has the certain means of carrying fuch a right into effect if he has a de- cided fuperiority at fea . Such colonies are dependent for ...
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... himself with making a short and contemptuous answer to certain statements and apologies which , says , have been made in behalf of the neutrals . He denies that they suffer any loss or inconvenience from the war , in compersation of ...
... himself with making a short and contemptuous answer to certain statements and apologies which , says , have been made in behalf of the neutrals . He denies that they suffer any loss or inconvenience from the war , in compersation of ...
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... himself laid but little stress on that consideration , and rather seems inclined to infer the illegality of the trade from the circum- stances of its being beneficial to the enemy , and not having been open to the neutral in time of ...
... himself laid but little stress on that consideration , and rather seems inclined to infer the illegality of the trade from the circum- stances of its being beneficial to the enemy , and not having been open to the neutral in time of ...
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... himself , by the terms of the Royal instructions as the rule of his judgment , it was natural for him to seek to juftify to his own mind the principle of those inftruc- tions ; and if they were not capable of being juftified , it is not ...
... himself , by the terms of the Royal instructions as the rule of his judgment , it was natural for him to seek to juftify to his own mind the principle of those inftruc- tions ; and if they were not capable of being juftified , it is not ...
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... himself , in a trade which was not open to him in time of peace ? It is mere quibbling and mockery to say , that , by such a prohibition , he is not put in a worse situation than before ; and it would evidently be the height of ...
... himself , in a trade which was not open to him in time of peace ? It is mere quibbling and mockery to say , that , by such a prohibition , he is not put in a worse situation than before ; and it would evidently be the height of ...
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Page 178 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Page 187 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves, but Delia's self In gait...
Page 178 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 189 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 182 - Astonied stood and blank, while horror chill Ran through his veins, and all his joints relax'd...
Page 183 - Castalian spring might with this Paradise Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and...
Page 8 - But without reference to accidents of the one kind or other, the general rule is, that the neutral has a right to carry on, in time of war, his accustomed trade to the utmost extent of which that accustomed trade is capable. Very different is the case of a trade which the neutral has never possessed, which he holds by no title of use and habit in times of peace, and which, in fact...
Page 183 - While thus he spake, the angelic squadron bright Turn'd fiery red, sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx, and began to hem him round With ported spears...
Page 13 - The private property of pacific and industrious individuals seems to be protected, and except in the single case of maritime capture it is spared accordingly by the general usage of all modern nations. No army now plunders unarmed individuals ashore, except for the purpose" of providing for its own subsistence. And the laws of war are thought to be violated by the seizure of private property for the sake of gain, even within the limits of the hostile territory. It is not easy at first sight to discover...