Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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Page 171
... - licy in the meafures recommended . The unwilling obedience of per- fons , who could bring themselves to act in direct oppofition to their own by Lord John Cavendish , and feconded by Mr. Powys HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 170.
... - licy in the meafures recommended . The unwilling obedience of per- fons , who could bring themselves to act in direct oppofition to their own by Lord John Cavendish , and feconded by Mr. Powys HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 170.
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Edmund Burke. by Lord John Cavendish , and feconded by Mr. Powys : 66 " That it appears to this " Houfe , that fince the year 1775 , upwards of one hundred mil- " lions of money have been ex- " pended on the army and na- " vy in a ...
Edmund Burke. by Lord John Cavendish , and feconded by Mr. Powys : 66 " That it appears to this " Houfe , that fince the year 1775 , upwards of one hundred mil- " lions of money have been ex- " pended on the army and na- " vy in a ...
Page 175
... John Rous , and fe- conded by the younger Lord Geo . Cavendish , in which , after re- citing the facts contained in the refolutions moved on the eighth , it was proposed to refolve , that , on confideration thereof , the House could ...
... John Rous , and fe- conded by the younger Lord Geo . Cavendish , in which , after re- citing the facts contained in the refolutions moved on the eighth , it was proposed to refolve , that , on confideration thereof , the House could ...
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... John Cavendish , chancellor of the exchequer ; Ad- miral Keppel , who was alfo cre- ated a viscount , firft commiffioner of the admiralty ; General Con- way , commander in chief of the forces ; Duke of Richmond , maf- ter - general of ...
... John Cavendish , chancellor of the exchequer ; Ad- miral Keppel , who was alfo cre- ated a viscount , firft commiffioner of the admiralty ; General Con- way , commander in chief of the forces ; Duke of Richmond , maf- ter - general of ...
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... John Caven- dish moved , in a committee of the whole House , ten refolutions , the grounds of which , as well as the intention with which he acted , will beft appear from the following , by which they were closed : - " That [ M ] 3 " it ...
... John Caven- dish moved , in a committee of the whole House , ten refolutions , the grounds of which , as well as the intention with which he acted , will beft appear from the following , by which they were closed : - " That [ M ] 3 " it ...
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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...