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1830 March 12
Official Aptitude(4)
Ch. IX Ministers Collectively
§. 15 Remuneration
Supplement
Mode of connection
Art. 66 For an indefinite length of time back the English Monarchs
had been in the habit of arrogating to themselves a sort of
sovereignty over the seas, that is to say a sovereignty over the
sovereigns and people of all the nations of the earth for and during the time
of their being on that part of it which is covered with the
all comprehensive mass of largest mass of salt water. A
claim of this sort to this effect is in fact a constant and nominal
declaration of war against all nations.
Art. 67 About the year 1784, Catherine the 2d female
sovereign of the Russian Empire regarding the circumstances of the
house is favourably occupied herself and not altogether with
success, in the formation of an alliance for her defence
against the improvident war than thereabouts.
Art. 68 By this act of self-defence, the pride of George
the third was wounded: and to heal the wound the peace of the globe a
large portion of the globe was sacrificed by it sacrificed by it deemed
by it to be sacrificed. of While Catherine Russia
was engaged in war with Turkey, Gustavus the th
of Sweden worthy successor of Charles the 12th made
commenced and a compleatly groundless war on Russia.
Denmark, for some proposing to the found her the Russian contingent
in pursuance of a purely defensive treaty was by
by the threats of George the third compelled to break it: Soon after a
by the party of this same best of Kings – for by that appellation
was he commonly called used by endeavours were used
to do murder upon the largest scale
by a war against Russia by a war there which
none was ever more completely unprovoked, but
was prevented by means almost universally unknown
but by no means so not altogether so by the author of those pages.
Thus far, in the pa a breast so highly seated pride also
suffice to produce minds upon this vast scale, minds committed as
myriads upon myriads
upon human beings
by hundreds of thousands
and more, so far as yet
appears without need
of aid by fees. But be
the effect what it may
from the tendency which
this – that are easy but
so give birth to it, it follows
not that no other war contestation
to the production
of it: and whether payment
by fees had not
their share may
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