The Life of Catharine II, Empress of Russia ...A. Strahan, 1800 |
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Side 477 - The chief aim, and principal object of the present convention, being to secure the freedom of trade and navigation, the high contracting powers have antecedently agreed, and do engage to give to all other neutral powers, free leave to accede to the present treaty, and, after a thorough knowledge of the principles on which it rests, share equally in the obligations and advantages thereof.
Side 476 - Jide, all necessary assistance. The ships of war and frigates, of either of the contracting powers, shall thus protect and assist the merchantmen of the other: provided nevertheless, that, under the sanction of such required assistance and protection, no contraband shall be carried on, nor any prohibited trade, contrary to the Laws of Neutrality.
Side 311 - ... fucceffion was a matter of too much importance, to be governed or limited by thofe forms which prevail in common cafes of the fame nature. The Grand Duke accordingly paid a vifit to the court of Berlin towards the clofe of the fummer, where he received the Princefs of Wirtembergh as a bride from the hands of the King of Pruffia.
Side 149 - It is not difficult to perfuade people who fcem to have been born for nothing but war, to take up arms. The Tartars, however, are not now in the condition which at different periods enabled them to conquer a great part of the world. That overgrown empire, which has fprung up among them has, by degrees, either fwallowed up, broken, or feparated their different nations, in fuch a manner as to render an union of arms or councils, or any general and formidable alliance, impracticable. Their being...
Side 474 - ... the Laws forbidding all contraband trade with the powers now being, or that may hereafter be, concerned in the present disputes.
Side 122 - ... a manner as threatens the total overthrow of the whole. Such is the condition of mankind, that we are ever in extremes; and when we have carried any one to its greateft extent of evil or folly, we fly: back with equal violence to its oppofite. The furprife of a town, the in vafion of an infignificant province, or the election of a prince, who.
Side 474 - Her imperial majefty abiding principally by the Xth and Xlth articles of the treaty of commerce with Great Britain ; the conditions therein mentioned, which are founded on the right of nations, being underftood to...
Side 118 - ... to ftock magazines in .the country where the provifions were bought which were afterwards converted into markets, where the inhabitants were obliged to come and re-purchafe corn, at an advanced price, for their daily fubfiftence...
Side 24 - Highnefs does not feem much diverted. He looks at them as an old cat looks at the gambols of a young kitten ; or as one who had higher fport going on in his own mind, than the paftime of fiddling and dancing.
Side 469 - ... allows him. This is his rule, and that of his people ; and the king cannot accord to the principle, that a power at war has a right to interrupt the commerce of his fubjefts.