Annual Register, Band 41Edmund Burke 1801 |
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... party . Egypt is commonly reckoned to be about 500 miles in length , and 160 in breadth . The borders of the Nile , from Abyffinia to Grand Cairo , form a narrow valley , which , with lefler vallies or openings into the hilly country ...
... party . Egypt is commonly reckoned to be about 500 miles in length , and 160 in breadth . The borders of the Nile , from Abyffinia to Grand Cairo , form a narrow valley , which , with lefler vallies or openings into the hilly country ...
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... party returned alfo thi- ther , in a few days thereafter . If he fell in battle , another bey was cholen in his ftead ; and there was an end of the matter . So that on the whole the difputes among the Mammalukes were not of fuch an in ...
... party returned alfo thi- ther , in a few days thereafter . If he fell in battle , another bey was cholen in his ftead ; and there was an end of the matter . So that on the whole the difputes among the Mammalukes were not of fuch an in ...
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... party of French , whom they found in the ftreets . They burst into the houfes of the French , and plundered them ... parties of the infurgents retaining their arms , en- deavoured to efcape death by a pre- cipate fiight ; but thefe ...
... party of French , whom they found in the ftreets . They burst into the houfes of the French , and plundered them ... parties of the infurgents retaining their arms , en- deavoured to efcape death by a pre- cipate fiight ; but thefe ...
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... party of French at Saffat , had been obliged to retire within the fort , where he was attacked by the enemy , who attempted to carry the place , by fealing it . They were repulfed , with great lofs , but the French ftill held it in a ...
... party of French at Saffat , had been obliged to retire within the fort , where he was attacked by the enemy , who attempted to carry the place , by fealing it . They were repulfed , with great lofs , but the French ftill held it in a ...
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... party to guard the poft of Jacob's bridge , and thrown provifions into the caftle of Saffat , on the feventeenth of April , took poffeffion of the fort , fituated on the lake of Tiberias , where he found a year's ammunition and pro ...
... party to guard the poft of Jacob's bridge , and thrown provifions into the caftle of Saffat , on the feventeenth of April , took poffeffion of the fort , fituated on the lake of Tiberias , where he found a year's ammunition and pro ...
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Seite 416 - ... (see the water), and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.
Seite 25 - The column thus mounted the breach unmolested, and descended from the rampart into the pasha's garden, where, in a very few minutes, the bravest and most advanced amongst them lay headless corpses, the sabre, with the addition of a dagger in the other hand, proving more than a match for the bayonet...
Seite 385 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Seite 387 - And say, without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh ! what were man * a world without a sun.
Seite 151 - Capitation taxes, if it is attempted to proportion them to the fortune or revenue of each contributor, become altogether arbitrary. The state of a man's fortune varies from day to day, and without an inquisition more intolerable than any tax, and renewed at least once every year, can only be guessed at.
Seite 386 - Tyrants ! in vain ye trace the wizard ring ; In vain ye limit Mind's unwearied spring : What ! can ye lull the winged winds asleep, Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep ? No! — the wild wave contemns your...
Seite 379 - The loud wind roar'd, the rain fell fast ; The white man yielded to the blast ; He sat him down beneath our tree, For weary, sad, and faint was he ; And ah ! no wife or mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare.
Seite 166 - Majesty, accompanied by resolutions, proposing and recommending a complete and entire Union between Great Britain and Ireland...
Seite 180 - Ireland shall, upon the first day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom, by the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Seite 180 - Ireland have severally agreed and resolved that, in order to promote and secure the essential interests of Great Britain and Ireland, and to consolidate the strength, power and resources of the British Empire, it will be advisable to concur in such measures as may best tend to unite the two Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland...