The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Band 20Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 |
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... American affairs in the year 1776. Preparation in Canada for the armament on Lake Champlain . State of the American ... Americans over - run the Jerfeys . British and Auxiliary forces keep poffeffion of Brunswick and Amboy , during the ...
... American affairs in the year 1776. Preparation in Canada for the armament on Lake Champlain . State of the American ... Americans over - run the Jerfeys . British and Auxiliary forces keep poffeffion of Brunswick and Amboy , during the ...
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... Americans the praife , of having combated , and in part overcome them , with an affiduity , perfever- ance , and spirit , which did not in the leaft fall fhort of what had been employed against them . For their fleet amounted to 15 ...
... Americans the praife , of having combated , and in part overcome them , with an affiduity , perfever- ance , and spirit , which did not in the leaft fall fhort of what had been employed against them . For their fleet amounted to 15 ...
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... Americans . In this critical fitu- Dec. 13th . ation of their affairs , the capture of Gen. Lee feemed to render them ftill more hopeless . That officer , at the head of all the men which he could collect or keep together , being on his ...
... Americans . In this critical fitu- Dec. 13th . ation of their affairs , the capture of Gen. Lee feemed to render them ftill more hopeless . That officer , at the head of all the men which he could collect or keep together , being on his ...
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... Americans in regard to the British officers in their hands , until an op- portunity offered for a direct and equal exchange . To this it was anfwered , that as Mr. Lee was a deferter from his Majefty's fervice , he was not to be ...
... Americans in regard to the British officers in their hands , until an op- portunity offered for a direct and equal exchange . To this it was anfwered , that as Mr. Lee was a deferter from his Majefty's fervice , he was not to be ...
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... fuch a deception . It had been obferved from the beginning , that the most mortal antipathy fubfifted between the Americans and Hef- 1 fians . fians . The former , contending themselves for freedom , HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 11.
... fuch a deception . It had been obferved from the beginning , that the most mortal antipathy fubfifted between the Americans and Hef- 1 fians . fians . The former , contending themselves for freedom , HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 11.
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Seite 3 - ... religious factions, they seemed to be disarmed in my behalf of their wonted fury. My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct: not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability. I cannot...
Seite 266 - ¡rinds, tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great - Britain, called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and that a proportionable cefs, according to the ninth article of the treaty of union, be laid upon that part of Great-Britain called Scotland, 1,500,000!.
Seite 111 - Then plunge under it with your eyes open, throwing yourself towards the egg, and endeavouring by the action of your hands and feet against the water to get forward till within reach of it. In this attempt you will find that the water buoys you up against your inclination; that it is not so easy a thing to sink as you imagined; that you cannot but by active force get down to the egg.
Seite 138 - Hones had formerly been dug; and that it would have been no difficult matter to roll them down the hill after they were formed. I think this a very reafonable conjecture ; and have no doubt that it has been fo.
Seite 74 - ... both capital and profit. They are the projects, therefore, to which of all others a prudent lawgiver, who...
Seite 193 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail.
Seite 259 - the necessity of preventing the American trade from passing into foreign Channels.
Seite 75 - That there may be a continent, or large tract of land, near the Pole, I will not deny; on the contrary I am of opinion there is; and it is probable that we have seen a part of it.