The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Band 20Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 |
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... afford , than upon any faving as to time , or leffening of labour . Whear to this is added , the tranf- porting over land , and afterwards dragging up the rapids of St. Therefe and St. John's , 30 long- boats , a number of flat boats of ...
... afford , than upon any faving as to time , or leffening of labour . Whear to this is added , the tranf- porting over land , and afterwards dragging up the rapids of St. Therefe and St. John's , 30 long- boats , a number of flat boats of ...
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... afford much prefent confolation to the 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 ...
... afford much prefent confolation to the 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 ...
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... afford the ftrongeft hopes of the most decifive good confequences ; but that , notwith- ftanding this fair profpect , another campaign must , at all events , he prepared for . Amicible affurances were received from other courts ; en ...
... afford the ftrongeft hopes of the most decifive good confequences ; but that , notwith- ftanding this fair profpect , another campaign must , at all events , he prepared for . Amicible affurances were received from other courts ; en ...
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... afford no per- manent fecurity , as the prefent conduct of France and Spain , the nature of their preparations , and the fupport which they already af . forded the Americans , fufficiently fhewed the part which they would take in our ...
... afford no per- manent fecurity , as the prefent conduct of France and Spain , the nature of their preparations , and the fupport which they already af . forded the Americans , fufficiently fhewed the part which they would take in our ...
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... afford an opportunity for fixing the government of the colonies on a permanent bafis , and finally fet- thing all thofe queftions which had hitherto been the cause of debate . That nothing was wanting to bring affairs to this wifhed ...
... afford an opportunity for fixing the government of the colonies on a permanent bafis , and finally fet- thing all thofe queftions which had hitherto been the cause of debate . That nothing was wanting to bring affairs to this wifhed ...
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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.