The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Band 20Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 |
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... measure , be annihilated . The difficulty , perhaps impoffibility , of keeping open the communication with Canada , and fubfifting the ar- my during the winter , was obvi- ous . General Carleton therefore reimbarked the army without mak ...
... measure , be annihilated . The difficulty , perhaps impoffibility , of keeping open the communication with Canada , and fubfifting the ar- my during the winter , was obvi- ous . General Carleton therefore reimbarked the army without mak ...
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... measures with fuch addrefs and activity , and they were fo well feconded by the boldness and ra- pidity of motion which distinguish that corps , that the guard was evaded , the centries feized without noife , the quarters forced , and ...
... measures with fuch addrefs and activity , and they were fo well feconded by the boldness and ra- pidity of motion which distinguish that corps , that the guard was evaded , the centries feized without noife , the quarters forced , and ...
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... measure which had fome As the fituation of their affairs time before been adopted on the became extremely critical , and the fide of the crown , large grants prefervation of Philadelphia to all of vacant lands , to be diftributed ...
... measure which had fome As the fituation of their affairs time before been adopted on the became extremely critical , and the fide of the crown , large grants prefervation of Philadelphia to all of vacant lands , to be diftributed ...
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... measure the whole fortune of the war . Such extraordinary effects do fmall events produce , in that last and most uncertain of human de- cifions . Colonel Rall , a brave and ex- perienced officer , was stationed with a brigade of ...
... measure the whole fortune of the war . Such extraordinary effects do fmall events produce , in that last and most uncertain of human de- cifions . Colonel Rall , a brave and ex- perienced officer , was stationed with a brigade of ...
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... measure for a general confederacy against the colonies . Even the fix nations , who had before agreed to the oblervance of a trict neutra- lity , now committed feveral fmall acts of hoftility , which were after wards disowned by their ...
... measure for a general confederacy against the colonies . Even the fix nations , who had before agreed to the oblervance of a trict neutra- lity , now committed feveral fmall acts of hoftility , which were after wards disowned by their ...
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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.