Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... were agitated in the fupreme council ; but the grand object of policy , to which all the others were not only fubordinate , but in fome inftances intended intended merely as blinds , was long referved , and HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 13.
... were agitated in the fupreme council ; but the grand object of policy , to which all the others were not only fubordinate , but in fome inftances intended intended merely as blinds , was long referved , and HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 13.
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... objects of policy , which were not ex- plained . Nothing could more ftrongly fhew the difpofition of the court of Pconah to adhere inviolably to the conditions of the late peace , and even to live upon terms of good neighbourhood and ...
... objects of policy , which were not ex- plained . Nothing could more ftrongly fhew the difpofition of the court of Pconah to adhere inviolably to the conditions of the late peace , and even to live upon terms of good neighbourhood and ...
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... object was held out to be merely the protection of Bom- bay against the defigns of the French ; and to which place ... objects of their deftination . In the mean time the governor- general brought forward that grand fyftem of policy ...
... object was held out to be merely the protection of Bom- bay against the defigns of the French ; and to which place ... objects of their deftination . In the mean time the governor- general brought forward that grand fyftem of policy ...
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... objects of cenfure by the mi- Bority in the fupreme council . His death , which we 0 & . 3d . have already poticed , put an end to all attempts at farther enquiry , and prevented his difmif- fon from the command of the army , which had ...
... objects of cenfure by the mi- Bority in the fupreme council . His death , which we 0 & . 3d . have already poticed , put an end to all attempts at farther enquiry , and prevented his difmif- fon from the command of the army , which had ...
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... object in view , it afforded a miferable deception ; not a fingle hand was raised for Ragonaut , nor did a Maratta of confequence appear in his favour , from the outfet to the end of the expedition . The Bombay regular force a- mounted ...
... object in view , it afforded a miferable deception ; not a fingle hand was raised for Ragonaut , nor did a Maratta of confequence appear in his favour , from the outfet to the end of the expedition . The Bombay regular force a- mounted ...
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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...