Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... fome of the ftrongest paffions of the human mind . The wantonnefs and injuftice attributed to fome wars undertaken in India , had ( to the honour of the public feelings , whether the charges were ill or well founded ) been for fome time ...
... fome of the ftrongest paffions of the human mind . The wantonnefs and injuftice attributed to fome wars undertaken in India , had ( to the honour of the public feelings , whether the charges were ill or well founded ) been for fome time ...
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... fome years lain re- in clofe confinement , for peated plots to feize upon the go- vernment . Madai Row being a- ware of the youth and inexperi- ence of his brother , and dreading the infidious craft and intrigues of Ragonaut , though in ...
... fome years lain re- in clofe confinement , for peated plots to feize upon the go- vernment . Madai Row being a- ware of the youth and inexperi- ence of his brother , and dreading the infidious craft and intrigues of Ragonaut , though in ...
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... fome notice of the fituation in which the Company stood for fome years back , with refpect to their other powerful and formidable neighbour Hyder Ally . When that bold and enterprizing prince brought the war , which had been commenced ...
... fome notice of the fituation in which the Company stood for fome years back , with refpect to their other powerful and formidable neighbour Hyder Ally . When that bold and enterprizing prince brought the war , which had been commenced ...
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... fome time in the affairs of India . The newly- arrived gentlemen totally repro- bated the Maratta war , as well as fome others which had been lately conducted in other parts ; and as totally condemned the con- duft of Bombay , as well ...
... fome time in the affairs of India . The newly- arrived gentlemen totally repro- bated the Maratta war , as well as fome others which had been lately conducted in other parts ; and as totally condemned the con- duft of Bombay , as well ...
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... fome other districts in the Guzerat pro- vinces , were not only ceded in perpetuity to the Company , but the Marattas agreed to indemnify the authors of the war from its ex- pences , by the payment of about 150,000l . at fixed terms ...
... fome other districts in the Guzerat pro- vinces , were not only ceded in perpetuity to the Company , but the Marattas agreed to indemnify the authors of the war from its ex- pences , by the payment of about 150,000l . at fixed terms ...
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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...
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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...