The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 8, Issue 15Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1808 |
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... tion of the rule of the war 1756 . The hostile proprietor of the colonial produce will naturally be anxious to transmit it to his own country , or to his accustomed markets in Europe ; and this he is enabled to do , our author as- sures ...
... tion of the rule of the war 1756 . The hostile proprietor of the colonial produce will naturally be anxious to transmit it to his own country , or to his accustomed markets in Europe ; and this he is enabled to do , our author as- sures ...
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... tion ? Yes , fuch flender investigation as the prize court ( which of neceffity proceeds on the ex parte evidence of the claimants themselves ) has has power to inftitute ; the effect of which has 6 April The Frauds of the Neutral Flags .
... tion ? Yes , fuch flender investigation as the prize court ( which of neceffity proceeds on the ex parte evidence of the claimants themselves ) has has power to inftitute ; the effect of which has 6 April The Frauds of the Neutral Flags .
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... tion of it which still restrains their intercourse with the hostile colonies . He then refers , in a very triumphant manner , to the following short exposition of this principle , contained in a judge- ment of Sir W. Scott at the ...
... tion of it which still restrains their intercourse with the hostile colonies . He then refers , in a very triumphant manner , to the following short exposition of this principle , contained in a judge- ment of Sir W. Scott at the ...
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... tion without forfeiting the true character of neutrality . We shall have occasion , perhaps , to recur to some of these considerations by and by . We sketch them slightly at present , merely to pre- serve the continuity of our analysis ...
... tion without forfeiting the true character of neutrality . We shall have occasion , perhaps , to recur to some of these considerations by and by . We sketch them slightly at present , merely to pre- serve the continuity of our analysis ...
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... tion altogether irrelevant to the matter in dispute . It is a fact as palpable as the transference of her colonial trade , that the whole home trade of France is now gone into the hands of neutrals . By this arrangement she is benefited ...
... tion altogether irrelevant to the matter in dispute . It is a fact as palpable as the transference of her colonial trade , that the whole home trade of France is now gone into the hands of neutrals . By this arrangement she is benefited ...
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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...