Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... arrival of the three gentlemen from England , in October 1774 , who were to complete and give energy to the fupreme council , a confiderable change took place for fome time in the affairs of India . The newly- arrived gentlemen totally ...
... arrival of the three gentlemen from England , in October 1774 , who were to complete and give energy to the fupreme council , a confiderable change took place for fome time in the affairs of India . The newly- arrived gentlemen totally ...
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... arrived from England to fill up the fuperintending government of Bengal , and who , along with the governor - general , and another old member of that prefidency , compofed the fupreme council of India , differed almost entirely with ...
... arrived from England to fill up the fuperintending government of Bengal , and who , along with the governor - general , and another old member of that prefidency , compofed the fupreme council of India , differed almost entirely with ...
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... arrived at the Jumna , which forms the Maratta boundary on that fide , about the middle of May , 1778. They pafled the river in boats , under the fire of their artillery , notwithstanding the op- pofition of the Maratta ftates in that ...
... arrived at the Jumna , which forms the Maratta boundary on that fide , about the middle of May , 1778. They pafled the river in boats , under the fire of their artillery , notwithstanding the op- pofition of the Maratta ftates in that ...
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... arrival . His zeal went fo far , as to lead him to difclofe the preparations making by the court of Poonah for ... arrived in the dominions of Berar , that prince , after specifically pointing out the dangers to which they would be ...
... arrival . His zeal went fo far , as to lead him to difclofe the preparations making by the court of Poonah for ... arrived in the dominions of Berar , that prince , after specifically pointing out the dangers to which they would be ...
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... arrived on the nor thern banks of the Nerbudda , fa- tigued , exhaufted , their carriages broken , their draught - cattle worn down , and in want of all manner of fupplies , on the laft of Novem- ber ; and paffed over to Huffinabad , in ...
... arrived on the nor thern banks of the Nerbudda , fa- tigued , exhaufted , their carriages broken , their draught - cattle worn down , and in want of all manner of fupplies , on the laft of Novem- ber ; and paffed over to Huffinabad , in ...
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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...