Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... hope to protect open countries from their ravages . The wars of the ancient Parthians throw no fmall light on the oppofite advan- tages and difadvantages in both cafes . The prefent ufe of artillery , however , inclines the scale ...
... hope to protect open countries from their ravages . The wars of the ancient Parthians throw no fmall light on the oppofite advan- tages and difadvantages in both cafes . The prefent ufe of artillery , however , inclines the scale ...
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... hope of farther better means of information , and progrefs . They were already fo was not fo liable to taciturnity completely furrounded , that every upon that particular fubject . At kind of fupply , and all inter , any rate , it can ...
... hope of farther better means of information , and progrefs . They were already fo was not fo liable to taciturnity completely furrounded , that every upon that particular fubject . At kind of fupply , and all inter , any rate , it can ...
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... hope of reward prompted thefe men to communicate the difcovery to Ma- jor Popham . This vigilant and diftinguished officer immediately employed fome perfons of judg . ment , on whom he could firmly rely , to attend the Mewattes by night ...
... hope of reward prompted thefe men to communicate the difcovery to Ma- jor Popham . This vigilant and diftinguished officer immediately employed fome perfons of judg . ment , on whom he could firmly rely , to attend the Mewattes by night ...
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... hope of making an effectual refiftance . The nabob's , intelligence and ad- vice were both good , but his root- ed enmity to Hyder Ally ren- dered them fufpected , and proba- bly , not always without reafon . He had long urged the ...
... hope of making an effectual refiftance . The nabob's , intelligence and ad- vice were both good , but his root- ed enmity to Hyder Ally ren- dered them fufpected , and proba- bly , not always without reafon . He had long urged the ...
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... hope of an enterprize which might have had great effect in changing the fortune of the war , was not only overthrown , but it was with great difficulty , and no fmall ex- ertion of diligence and activity , that Cofby's party efcaped ...
... hope of an enterprize which might have had great effect in changing the fortune of the war , was not only overthrown , but it was with great difficulty , and no fmall ex- ertion of diligence and activity , that Cofby's party efcaped ...
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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...