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Page 78 - ... augustes alliés comme aussi avantageux au repos de l'Europe, qu'essentiel à la prospérité de la France. Considérant que le premier de ses devoirs est de chercher à perpétuer et accroître, par tous les moyens qui sont en son pouvoir, les bienfaits que l'entier rétablissement de la paix générale promet...
Page 241 - State, or by any judge or justice therein respectively, whereby the person of any ambassador or other public minister of any foreign prince or State, authorized and received as such by the President of the United States...
Page 166 - ... was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his albo — a book of white paper, which for that purpose many of the German gentry usually carry about them — and Sir Henry Wotton consenting to the motion, took an occasion, from some accidental discourse of the present company, to write a pleasant definition of an ambassador in these very words : "Legatus est vir bonus, peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have...
Page 169 - I confess has often happened undesigned) by speaking plainly; as Earl Stanhope used to say (during his ministry) he always imposed on the foreign ministers by telling them the naked truth, which, as they thought impossible to come from the mouth of a statesman, they never failed to write information to their respective courts directly contrary to the assurances he gave them.
Page 107 - CAR tel est notre plaisir. En témoin de quoi Nous avons fait mettre notre scel à cesdites Présentes.
Page 115 - ... in as ample manner and form, and with equal force and efficacy as we ourselves could do if personally present, engaging and promising upon Our Royal word, that whatever things shall be so transacted and concluded by Our said...
Page 146 - Les Puissances contractantes reconnaissent que les hostilités entre elles ne doivent pas commencer sans un avertissement préalable et non équivoque, qui aura, soit la forme d'une déclaration de guerre motivée, soit celle d'un ultimatum avec déclaration de guerre conditionnelle.
Page 76 - MM. le roi de France et le roi de la Grande-Bretagne, afin de procéder à l'examen de cette question importante. L'attention des ministres...
Page 167 - Venice it was presently after written in several glass-windows, and spitefully declared to be Sir Henry Wotton's. This coming to the knowledge of King James, he apprehended it to be such an oversight, such a weakness, or worse, in Sir Henry Wotton, as caused the King to express much wrath against him...
Page 115 - In Witness whereof We have caused the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to be affixed to these Presents, which We have signed with Our Royal Hand. Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle, the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and SeventyOne, and in the Thirty-Fourth Year of our Reign.