state-papers

He gives every thing with equal minuteness, makes no attempt at digesting or compression, and fills his pages with letters and state-papers at full length; the certain way, if not connected by ability, to send them to the bottom.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

All the talent we had was absorbed in the production of political essays and state-papers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

Martin Van Buren's single message as governor exhibited a knowledge of conditions and needs that must rank it among the ablest state-papers in the archives of the capitol.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

They wrote state-papers, went on embassies, and took the lead at town-meetings.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

The collation of archives, official correspondence, and state-papers is now but the rough basis of research; memoirs are equally consulted, -- localities minutely examined, -- the art and literature of a given era analyzed, -- the geography, climate, and ethnology of the scene made to illustrate the life and polity, -- social phases, educational facts estimated as not less valuable than statistics of armies and judicial enactments.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

Constitution, both of them remarkable state-papers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

French governor collects all export and import duties, writes all state-papers, assembles and dismisses the island legislature according to his good pleasure, doles out to the Queen a yearly allowance of a thousand pounds, puts her in duress in her own house, if her conduct displeases him, and will not allow her to see strangers, except by his permission.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

This portion of Mr. Dixon's volume, founded on state-papers, will surprise both the defamers and the eulogists of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Here the state-papers were matured that first intelligently reconciled the claims of local self-government with what is due to a protective nationality.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

Secondly, however, we may say, these Historical Novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and others, till so taught: that the bygone ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies and abstractions of men.

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