The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Band 20Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 |
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... less than created ; for though a few of the largeft were re - contructions , the advantage derived from thence depended more upon the ufe of materials which the country did not afford , than upon any faving as to time , or leffening of ...
... less than created ; for though a few of the largeft were re - contructions , the advantage derived from thence depended more upon the ufe of materials which the country did not afford , than upon any faving as to time , or leffening of ...
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... less than the others , and re- tired by another road to the fame place . The enemy acknowledged that nothing could exceed the gal- lant behaviour of the corps under Mawhood . Though the number killed , con- fidering the nature and ...
... less than the others , and re- tired by another road to the fame place . The enemy acknowledged that nothing could exceed the gal- lant behaviour of the corps under Mawhood . Though the number killed , con- fidering the nature and ...
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... less interefting , For distance produces in fome degree the effect of time with refpect to fenfibility ; and the laughter , cruelties , and calamities , which would wring the heart if they happened in the next county , are flightly felt ...
... less interefting , For distance produces in fome degree the effect of time with refpect to fenfibility ; and the laughter , cruelties , and calamities , which would wring the heart if they happened in the next county , are flightly felt ...
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... less than eighteen new Barons created , in the courfe of one day . Towards the end of No. July 2d . vember , the Earl of Buckingham- fhire was appointed Lord - Lieute- nant of that kingdom . The melancholy prognoftica- tions , which at ...
... less than eighteen new Barons created , in the courfe of one day . Towards the end of No. July 2d . vember , the Earl of Buckingham- fhire was appointed Lord - Lieute- nant of that kingdom . The melancholy prognoftica- tions , which at ...
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... less than we thould voluntarily grant , and the danger of our outdoing their demands by our conceffions . They faid it was an evident mock- ery . The crown had promifed in this proclamation fomething which without parliament it could ...
... less than we thould voluntarily grant , and the danger of our outdoing their demands by our conceffions . They faid it was an evident mock- ery . The crown had promifed in this proclamation fomething which without parliament it could ...
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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.