The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 9Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1793 - History |
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... fuppofed to be the re- fult of them much more fo . It was faid , that Heraclius having fubdued feveral of the neighbour- ing countries , had extended his conquefts to the coafts of the Black- fea , had taken the imperial city of ...
... fuppofed to be the re- fult of them much more fo . It was faid , that Heraclius having fubdued feveral of the neighbour- ing countries , had extended his conquefts to the coafts of the Black- fea , had taken the imperial city of ...
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... fuppofed , that gentle- men would run fuch risks of life , health , and property , at fo great a diftance from home , if the com- pany did not give them other op- portunities of making their for- tunes , in compenfation for the ...
... fuppofed , that gentle- men would run fuch risks of life , health , and property , at fo great a diftance from home , if the com- pany did not give them other op- portunities of making their for- tunes , in compenfation for the ...
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... fuppofed to proceed from private pique , or party re- fentment . We learn at prefent from India , that Lord Clive has put the troops in that country upon a new footing . His Lord- hip has given orders , to build bar- racks for them in ...
... fuppofed to proceed from private pique , or party re- fentment . We learn at prefent from India , that Lord Clive has put the troops in that country upon a new footing . His Lord- hip has given orders , to build bar- racks for them in ...
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... fuppofed they had the natural partiality of a pa- rent , and in defence of which they were determined to difpute every inch of ground with the miniflry . Some alfo joined them through principle . They thought that the infolence of the ...
... fuppofed they had the natural partiality of a pa- rent , and in defence of which they were determined to difpute every inch of ground with the miniflry . Some alfo joined them through principle . They thought that the infolence of the ...
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... fuppofed that the lovers and affertors of high pre- rogative , naturally chimed in with the reft , upon their own principles . There were not a few alfo who firft kept aloof from , and in due time declared against the miniftry , upon ...
... fuppofed that the lovers and affertors of high pre- rogative , naturally chimed in with the reft , upon their own principles . There were not a few alfo who firft kept aloof from , and in due time declared against the miniftry , upon ...
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