Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... Parliamentary enquiries were in- ftituted , and have been long con- tinued . Various reports from the committees have been laid before the House of Commons ; but fuch is the complex nature and im- menfity of the matter , the endless ...
... Parliamentary enquiries were in- ftituted , and have been long con- tinued . Various reports from the committees have been laid before the House of Commons ; but fuch is the complex nature and im- menfity of the matter , the endless ...
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... parliament to the government of Bengal , and the arrival of the three gentlemen from England , in October 1774 , who were to complete and give energy to the fupreme council , a confiderable change took place for fome time in the affairs ...
... parliament to the government of Bengal , and the arrival of the three gentlemen from England , in October 1774 , who were to complete and give energy to the fupreme council , a confiderable change took place for fome time in the affairs ...
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... parliament from which they derived their au- thority , as tended to fhew that their reftraining powers did not at all extend to the prefent inftance : the prefidency at the fame time recalled and fufpended Mr. Hol- load ; for whofe ...
... parliament from which they derived their au- thority , as tended to fhew that their reftraining powers did not at all extend to the prefent inftance : the prefidency at the fame time recalled and fufpended Mr. Hol- load ; for whofe ...
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... parliament and out , whether the intercepting of De Graffe fhould not have been the firft object of our fleet , inftead of lofing time in going to Ireland , and there- by miffing the opportunity ? On the affirmative fide of the queftion ...
... parliament and out , whether the intercepting of De Graffe fhould not have been the firft object of our fleet , inftead of lofing time in going to Ireland , and there- by miffing the opportunity ? On the affirmative fide of the queftion ...
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... made in both houfes of parliament , to render this bufinefs a ground of com- plaint and charge against the first lord of the admiralty . CHAP . efforts of those who wished to rouze the nation to HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 125.
... made in both houfes of parliament , to render this bufinefs a ground of com- plaint and charge against the first lord of the admiralty . CHAP . efforts of those who wished to rouze the nation to HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 125.
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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...