The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Band 20Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 |
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... took the oppor- tunity which the darkness of the aight afforded , of endeavouring to escape from their prefent immi- nent danger , hoping to obtain helter and protection at Crown Point . Arnold concerted and ex- ecuted this defign with ...
... took the oppor- tunity which the darkness of the aight afforded , of endeavouring to escape from their prefent immi- nent danger , hoping to obtain helter and protection at Crown Point . Arnold concerted and ex- ecuted this defign with ...
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... took poffeffion of the ruins , where he was foon joined by the army . As he continued there till towards the end of the month , and , befides feveral reconnoitring parties , pufh- ed on at one time ftrong detach- ments on bota fides of ...
... took poffeffion of the ruins , where he was foon joined by the army . As he continued there till towards the end of the month , and , befides feveral reconnoitring parties , pufh- ed on at one time ftrong detach- ments on bota fides of ...
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... took the neceffary meatures for aflembling his forces ( which confitted mostly of drafts from the militia of Penfylvania and Virgi- nia ) in three divifions , each of which was to arrive at its appointed ftation on the Delaware , as ...
... took the neceffary meatures for aflembling his forces ( which confitted mostly of drafts from the militia of Penfylvania and Virgi- nia ) in three divifions , each of which was to arrive at its appointed ftation on the Delaware , as ...
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... took the lower road to Trenton , whilft the other , with General Washing ton , proceeded along the upper , or Pennington road . Notwith ftanding the delays they met , and the advanced state of daylight , the Helians had no knowledge of ...
... took the lower road to Trenton , whilft the other , with General Washing ton , proceeded along the upper , or Pennington road . Notwith ftanding the delays they met , and the advanced state of daylight , the Helians had no knowledge of ...
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... took a large circuit by Allenf- town , partly to get clear of the Trenton , or Affumpink Creek , and partly to avoid the brigade which lay at Maidenhead , their van fell in at funrise the next morning with Colonel Mawhood , who had just ...
... took a large circuit by Allenf- town , partly to get clear of the Trenton , or Affumpink Creek , and partly to avoid the brigade which lay at Maidenhead , their van fell in at funrise the next morning with Colonel Mawhood , who had just ...
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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.