Some Official Correspondence of George Canning [1821-1827], Volume 2

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Longmans, Green, 1887 - Great Britain
 

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Page 106 - English oak ; the underwood, that had probably attended its early growth, had the appearance of having been cleared away, and had left the stately lords of the forest in complete possession of the soil, which was covered with luxuriant herbage, and beautifully diversified with pleasing eminences and valleys, which, with the range of lofty rugged mountains that bounded the prospect, required only to be adorned with the neat habitations of an industrious people to produce a scene not inferior to the...
Page 234 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 226 - Si donnons en mandement à nos cours et tribunaux, préfets, corps administratifs et tous autres, que les présentes ils gardent et maintiennent, fassent garder, observer et maintenir, et pour les rendre plus notoires à tous nos sujets, ils les fassent publier et enregistrer partout où besoin sera : car tel est notre plaisir ; et afin que ce soit chose ferme et stable à toujours, nous y avons fait mettre notre scel.
Page 103 - June 3, 1400 leagues in all, till we came into 42 deg. of north latitude, where in the night following we found such alteration of heat, into extreme and nipping cold, that our men in general did grievously complain...
Page 73 - If we retreat from that," he had predicted, "the cession of Astoria will have been but the first symptom of weakness, the first of a series of compliances with encroachments, which, if not resisted, will grow upon success.
Page 72 - Compare the Bill of Sale by which the settlement, or blockhouse, of Astoria was made over for a valuable consideration, by a company half British and half American, to a wholly British company, with the first article of the Treaty of Ghent, stipulating the restoration of places 'taken...
Page 98 - The American title is founded on occupation, strengthened (as the committee believe) by purchase, by prior discovery of the river, and its exploration from some of its sources in the Rocky Mountains to the Ocean. Great Britain can have no title so strong as this.
Page 104 - ... which if they ceased and were still at any time, immediately upon their intermission there followed most...
Page 87 - Plenipotentiaries added, that they felt themselves more particularly called upon to express their distinct denial of the principle and claims thus set forth by the American Plenipotentiary, as his claim respecting the territory watered by the River Columbia and its tributary streams, besides being essentially objectionable in its general bearing, had the effect of interfering directly with the actual rights of Great Britain, derived from use, occupancy, and settlement.

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