The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 9Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1793 - History |
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... fhall happen to be foon determined , muft naturally fall into the accounts of the year now begun , and will be part of the fubject of our next volume . Upon the whole , we have fpared neither diligence nor labour , and this is all we ...
... fhall happen to be foon determined , muft naturally fall into the accounts of the year now begun , and will be part of the fubject of our next volume . Upon the whole , we have fpared neither diligence nor labour , and this is all we ...
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... fhall , under their respective heads , give the best accounts we have been able to collect , of fuch of thefe commotions as come with- in the plan of our obfervation ; and as the clouds are now difperfed with- out any confiderable ...
... fhall , under their respective heads , give the best accounts we have been able to collect , of fuch of thefe commotions as come with- in the plan of our obfervation ; and as the clouds are now difperfed with- out any confiderable ...
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... fhall take notice of in the next chapter ) fil preferves the fame pacific af- pect towards the rest of Europe , and the fame attention to the in- tereft and improvement of her fub- jects , which we have already with pleafure remarked in ...
... fhall take notice of in the next chapter ) fil preferves the fame pacific af- pect towards the rest of Europe , and the fame attention to the in- tereft and improvement of her fub- jects , which we have already with pleafure remarked in ...
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... fhall be in- ferted in the acts of the metrique , and from thence communicated to all those who shall require it - We charge the chancel- lors of the two nations to re- port this refolution to the am- baffadors and minifters above men ...
... fhall be in- ferted in the acts of the metrique , and from thence communicated to all those who shall require it - We charge the chancel- lors of the two nations to re- port this refolution to the am- baffadors and minifters above men ...
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... departing from those requifitions , the national honour and juftice are again betrayed . We fhall not attempt to antici- pate the judgment of our readers , by CHA P. VI . Diftreffed fate of the nation and 30 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1766 .
... departing from those requifitions , the national honour and juftice are again betrayed . We fhall not attempt to antici- pate the judgment of our readers , by CHA P. VI . Diftreffed fate of the nation and 30 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1766 .
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