Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... fubjects of public and private difcuffion . Parliamentary enquiries were in- ftituted , and have been long con ... fubject therefore ftill remains in obfcurity . In tracing thofe tranfactions and events upon the fpot , which led to ...
... fubjects of public and private difcuffion . Parliamentary enquiries were in- ftituted , and have been long con ... fubject therefore ftill remains in obfcurity . In tracing thofe tranfactions and events upon the fpot , which led to ...
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... fubject to the defects to which that powerful arm of military force is liable when employed fingly ; and being conftituted on the fame principles with the ancient feudal armies of Europe , they are like- wife fubject to all the difadvan ...
... fubject to the defects to which that powerful arm of military force is liable when employed fingly ; and being conftituted on the fame principles with the ancient feudal armies of Europe , they are like- wife fubject to all the difadvan ...
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... fubject or fervant of the Maratta ftate , who fhould at- tempt to excite difturbance or re- bellion in their dominions . • After conceffions fo exceedingly advantageous and flattering to the Company , and which evidently proceeded from ...
... fubject or fervant of the Maratta ftate , who fhould at- tempt to excite difturbance or re- bellion in their dominions . • After conceffions fo exceedingly advantageous and flattering to the Company , and which evidently proceeded from ...
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... fubject . At kind of fupply , and all inter , any rate , it can offer no injury courfe with the country , were en- to Ragonaut ; the abhorrence in tirely cut off . The enemy had which he has been conftantly held been every hour ...
... fubject . At kind of fupply , and all inter , any rate , it can offer no injury courfe with the country , were en- to Ragonaut ; the abhorrence in tirely cut off . The enemy had which he has been conftantly held been every hour ...
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... fubject , may be confidered as. lefs difficulties of every kind which they were to encounter , the unknown countries they were to explore , the difficulty of pro- curing provifion in the midft of hoftility , with the impracticable roads ...
... fubject , may be confidered as. lefs difficulties of every kind which they were to encounter , the unknown countries they were to explore , the difficulty of pro- curing provifion in the midft of hoftility , with the impracticable roads ...
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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...