Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848, المجلد 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1874 |
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الصفحة 260 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not : for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
الصفحة 266 - Jaseur to certain American fishing vessels, to withdraw from the fishing grounds to the distance of sixty miles from the coast. He answered that he had received all these papers from Mr. Baker about four days ago; that an answer with regard to the warning of the fishing vessels had immediately been sent; but on the other subjects there had not been time to examine the papers and prepare the answers. I asked him if he could without inconvenience state the substance of the answer that had been sent;...
الصفحة 6 - Andrews, and upon certain other matters connected with the question of the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions in North America. The undersigned, in accordance with the wishes of the President signified in Mr.
الصفحة 269 - Europe, and who, upon arriving there, found all the best fishing places and drying and curing places pre-occupied. This had often given rise to disputes and quarrels between them, which in some instances had proceeded even to blows. It had disturbed the peace among the inhabitants on the shores; and, for several years before the war, the complaints to this Government had been so great and so frequent, that it had been impossible not to pay regard to them.
الصفحة 28 - Pennsylvania. Between it and taking the lands for nothing, or exterminating the Indians who had used them, there was no alternative. To condemn vast regions of territory to perpetual barrenness and solitude that a few hundred savages might find wild beasts to hunt upon it, was a species of game law that a nation descended from Britons would never endure.
الصفحة 126 - A few mistakes in the copies were rectified, and then the six copies were signed and sealed by the three British and the five American Plenipotentiaries. Lord Gambier delivered to me the three British copies, and I delivered to him the three American copies, of the treaty, which he said he hoped would be permanent; and I told him I hoped it would be the last treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States.
الصفحة 101 - He was playing brag with the British Plenipotentiaries; they had been playing brag with us throughout the whole negotiation; he thought it was time for us to begin to play brag with them. He asked me if I knew how to play brag. I had forgotten how. He said the art of it was to beat your adversary by holding your hand, with a solemn and confident phiz, and outbragging him. He appealed to Mr. Bayard if it was not. "Ay...
الصفحة 266 - ... said that they would give due attention to the letter that I should send him, but that Great Britain had explicitly manifested her intention concerning it ; that this subject, as I doubtless knew, had excited a great deal of feeling in this country, perhaps much more than its importance deserved; but their own fishermen considered it as an excessive hardship to be supplanted by American fishermen, even upon the very shores of the British dominions.
الصفحة 248 - ... more than was appropriated for them, and he is embarrassed now about getting back to America. I have engaged Messrs. Baring to advance the money for the instruments, and he is to go for his own expenses upon his own credit.