The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 9Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1793 - History |
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... cafe of war , with a fixed number of fhips and failors , in lieu of the old ftipu- lation of land - forces . This feems an improvement of her plan of northern politics . Indeed both France and Spain , fenfible of their patt errors , and ...
... cafe of war , with a fixed number of fhips and failors , in lieu of the old ftipu- lation of land - forces . This feems an improvement of her plan of northern politics . Indeed both France and Spain , fenfible of their patt errors , and ...
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... cafe there can be no poffibility of fore- feeing how far the confequences may extend . The most remarkable incident which this year produced in Italy , was the Pope's abfolute refufal to acknowledge , by any of thofe vain titles , which ...
... cafe there can be no poffibility of fore- feeing how far the confequences may extend . The most remarkable incident which this year produced in Italy , was the Pope's abfolute refufal to acknowledge , by any of thofe vain titles , which ...
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... of Squillac- ci , became prime minifter : and others fucceeded to places of lefs confequence . Foreign councils produced foreign meafures ; the nation was precipitated , much a- gainst the cafe of nation 14 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1766 .
... of Squillac- ci , became prime minifter : and others fucceeded to places of lefs confequence . Foreign councils produced foreign meafures ; the nation was precipitated , much a- gainst the cafe of nation 14 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1766 .
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... cafe of all true Spani- ards , into a destructive war ( in which it had no manner of con- cera ) with England ; the confe- quences were as difgraceful , as the manner of entering into it had been raft and unadviled . The fame counfels ...
... cafe of all true Spani- ards , into a destructive war ( in which it had no manner of con- cera ) with England ; the confe- quences were as difgraceful , as the manner of entering into it had been raft and unadviled . The fame counfels ...
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... cafe of a war . That by being guarantees both of the Mo- gul's , and Sujah Doula's domini- ons , as well as by the immediate and continual protection which we are obliged to afford the former , there is a foundation laid for con- tinual ...
... cafe of a war . That by being guarantees both of the Mo- gul's , and Sujah Doula's domini- ons , as well as by the immediate and continual protection which we are obliged to afford the former , there is a foundation laid for con- tinual ...
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