Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... effect and advantage . Such a restraint requires a ftrong and immediate controul ; and is not eafily practicable under a re- mote government . The abundant means of war in the hands of the Company's fervants , naturally tend- ed to its ...
... effect and advantage . Such a restraint requires a ftrong and immediate controul ; and is not eafily practicable under a re- mote government . The abundant means of war in the hands of the Company's fervants , naturally tend- ed to its ...
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... effect at Madras than the former . The Marattas , under the conduct of Madai Row , fo totally overpowered Hyder in this war , that his ruin was deemed inevita- ble . Unable to face them in the field , they were mafters of all the open ...
... effect at Madras than the former . The Marattas , under the conduct of Madai Row , fo totally overpowered Hyder in this war , that his ruin was deemed inevita- ble . Unable to face them in the field , they were mafters of all the open ...
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... effect with refpect to this conduct . It is certain , that the nabob at all times urged an alliance with the Marattas against Hyder . The fortune of Hyder Ally at length triumphed over all his dan gers and enemies . It feems pro- bable ...
... effect with refpect to this conduct . It is certain , that the nabob at all times urged an alliance with the Marattas against Hyder . The fortune of Hyder Ally at length triumphed over all his dan gers and enemies . It feems pro- bable ...
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... effect armed with all the powers of the government ; and thus were the lives of Meffrs . Farmer and Stuart , the two gentlemen who , relying on the faith of the Company ( which in that inftance fhould have been deemed particularly ...
... effect armed with all the powers of the government ; and thus were the lives of Meffrs . Farmer and Stuart , the two gentlemen who , relying on the faith of the Company ( which in that inftance fhould have been deemed particularly ...
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... effect , " for the prefervation of friend- 66 fhip that you trouble the do- " minions of this government ? " Such a mode of conduct is in- " confiftent with the maxims and " ufages of high and illustrious " chiefs . " . " The ...
... effect , " for the prefervation of friend- 66 fhip that you trouble the do- " minions of this government ? " Such a mode of conduct is in- " confiftent with the maxims and " ufages of high and illustrious " chiefs . " . " The ...
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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...