Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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Page 128
... Lord Cornwallis . That minifter , he said , had declared in another affembly , that a first lord of the admiralty who fhould fail in having a fleet equal to the com bined naval force of the house of Bourbon , would be unworthy of his ...
... Lord Cornwallis . That minifter , he said , had declared in another affembly , that a first lord of the admiralty who fhould fail in having a fleet equal to the com bined naval force of the house of Bourbon , would be unworthy of his ...
Page 129
... lord of the admiralty , drew from one of the members of that board a reply in his defence . He al ferted , that the crippled state in which the noble lord had found the navy , and which had been owing to the parfimonious œco- nomy of Lord ...
... lord of the admiralty , drew from one of the members of that board a reply in his defence . He al ferted , that the crippled state in which the noble lord had found the navy , and which had been owing to the parfimonious œco- nomy of Lord ...
Page 132
... lord had deferted the proper ground of debate when he faid fo much about the mode of conducting the war . The object and end of it were the material confideration to be spoken to . The argument drawn from the fhortnefs of the time which ...
... lord had deferted the proper ground of debate when he faid fo much about the mode of conducting the war . The object and end of it were the material confideration to be spoken to . The argument drawn from the fhortnefs of the time which ...
Page 141
... Lord G. Germaine , the Lord Advo- cate of Scotland , the Secretary at War , and Lord North . The two laft objected principally to that part of the motion which tended to prejudicate and affect the claims under litigation in the courts ...
... Lord G. Germaine , the Lord Advo- cate of Scotland , the Secretary at War , and Lord North . The two laft objected principally to that part of the motion which tended to prejudicate and affect the claims under litigation in the courts ...
Page 144
... Lord North ; in which he was fupported by Mr. Welbore Ellis and Lord George Germaine . The latter having declared that he regarded the motion as amounting to a refo- lution to abandon the American war altogether , faid , he fhould make ...
... Lord North ; in which he was fupported by Mr. Welbore Ellis and Lord George Germaine . The latter having declared that he regarded the motion as amounting to a refo- lution to abandon the American war altogether , faid , he fhould make ...
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Page 323 - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth, in the bay of Fundy, to its source, and from its source, directly north, to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 210 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Page 322 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries...
Page 323 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Page 207 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Page 322 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Page 210 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 210 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Page 322 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...