Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... attack either : a claufe evidently pointed against the Marattas , and undoubtedly fo understood and verbally explained on both fides , although any parti- cular fpecification of them in the written inftrument was prudently omitted ...
... attack either : a claufe evidently pointed against the Marattas , and undoubtedly fo understood and verbally explained on both fides , although any parti- cular fpecification of them in the written inftrument was prudently omitted ...
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... attack made in the night , that public thanks were iffued to the troops for their good conduct and bravery . Upon Leflie's death , in the beginning of October , the command devolved upon Colonel Goddard ; and whatever the nature of the ...
... attack made in the night , that public thanks were iffued to the troops for their good conduct and bravery . Upon Leflie's death , in the beginning of October , the command devolved upon Colonel Goddard ; and whatever the nature of the ...
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... attack with rockets , through the course of the day . Col. Cay was mortally wounded in this out- fet of the bufinefs . The fame fort of cannonade and interrup tion was repeated through every day's march , from nine in the morning till ...
... attack with rockets , through the course of the day . Col. Cay was mortally wounded in this out- fet of the bufinefs . The fame fort of cannonade and interrup tion was repeated through every day's march , from nine in the morning till ...
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Edmund Burke. their approach ) and only about and confufion of the attack . This 20 miles fhort of Poonah , they ... attacked , with a determined vigour and con- fidence which they had not before experienced . In this fkirmish the enemy ...
Edmund Burke. their approach ) and only about and confufion of the attack . This 20 miles fhort of Poonah , they ... attacked , with a determined vigour and con- fidence which they had not before experienced . In this fkirmish the enemy ...
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... attack on the following day . It was returned by the en- clofed army until the afternoon , when the firing on the English fide ceased . A flag of truce be- ing fent out , the Marattas like- wife ceafed firing . The requelt which ...
... attack on the following day . It was returned by the en- clofed army until the afternoon , when the firing on the English fide ceased . A flag of truce be- ing fent out , the Marattas like- wife ceafed firing . The requelt which ...
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addrefs Admiral againſt alfo army befides cafe Capt Captain caufe circumftances clofe coaft command confequence confiderable confifted convoy courfe court defign defire ditto Duke Eaft Earl enemy enemy's exprefs fafe faid fail fame feamen fecond fecurity feemed feen fent ferved fervice feven feveral fhall fhips fhould fide fiege fignal fince fire firft firſt fituation fleet fmall fome foon force fquadron French frigates ftate ftill ftores fubject fuch fuffered fufficient fuperiority fupply fuppofed fupport garrifon guns himſelf honour Houfe Houſe Hyder ifland India inftant intereft laft land lefs likewife lofs Lord Lord North Majefty Majefty's Marattas Marquis de Bouille meaſures ment Mifs minifters Minorca moft moſt neceffary neral Nizam obferved occafion officers paffed parliament perfon poffeffion Poonah prefent prefidency prifoners propofed provifions purpoſe reafon refolution refpect Sir Samuel Hood ſtate thefe theſe thofe thoſe tion troops veffels Weft whofe wounded
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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...