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The only confideration by which we can form any judgment, is the fituationand geo - graphy of the country in difpute •, and from its eafy communication with the Englifh provinces of Penfilvania and Virginia, at leaft infinitely eafief than with any of the French fettlements which de - ferved the name, we are well warranted to infer, that the project of the Englifh was the project of fober policy and traffic j and that the French, pre - tending to interfere and difturb them in it, were influenced by unruly ambition and wild adventure.
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The only language fpoken here, is that dialeft of the Englifh which is common in A - berdeenfliire.
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When the Company eftablifhed their commerce in thofe parts, their rivals were very inconfiderable; the Englifh were not a match for them, and the Indian Princes traded rather with the Dutch than with their neighbours.
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Secretary of the Trcsfury in hi letter, is poiitive proof that ai - med all the property ftiipped was either Englifh or of Ameri - can inv to them.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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He was ftill in hopes of getting fome of the Ii\dians on board, and by prefents added to civil ufage, convey through them a favourable idea of the Englifh to their fellow-countrymen; and theretKr - fettle a good correfpondence with them.
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How great then was the general joy when on the 20th we diftinguifiied a large Englifh boat making towards us!
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I have no fears of French or - Englifh fubjugation.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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But furely after tbe orders in council were repealed, and the only avowed Object of the non-importation act. obtained, an American merchant might very rnnoceritly fuppofe that he did not by purchasing Englifh goods, do anaCt that had any tendency whatever to counteract thevieysof his own government.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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It is to conquer the fovereignty of of the foil, to raze the Britifh power, to reach by fuch means her profligate knd unjuft miniftry, that war is waged at all — - the un - armed will never fall on American bayonets — it is not againft the people of either Canada or Great Britain, but againft the Englifh fubject in arms, that the war is directed.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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They did not appear to fet any great value on the beads, iron, &c. which was prefented to them, nor would they give any thing in return, but propofed to exchange their weapons for thofe belonging to the Englifh, which being confequently objeded to, they endeavoured feveral 'times to fnatch them out of their hands.
erinmckean commented on the word Englifh
"Englifh" books -- books printed with the medial s.
December 22, 2010