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... minifters of the partitioning powers . Memorial ; threats ; answer ; declaration from the Pruffian minifter . Ferment in the diet . Warfa furrounded by the foreign troops . Protefts , against the diet . New confederacy , under the ...
... minifters of the partitioning powers . Memorial ; threats ; answer ; declaration from the Pruffian minifter . Ferment in the diet . Warfa furrounded by the foreign troops . Protefts , against the diet . New confederacy , under the ...
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... minifters of the allied powers , charging them with tergiverfation and delay , and appointing a limited day for the convocation of the diet , with de- nunciations of the feverest ven- geance in case of failure . Feb. 19th . In the ...
... minifters of the allied powers , charging them with tergiverfation and delay , and appointing a limited day for the convocation of the diet , with de- nunciations of the feverest ven- geance in case of failure . Feb. 19th . In the ...
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... minifters of the allied powers . Several fquadrons of Au- ftrian and Pruffian Huffars entered the city , and were quartered from fifty to an hundred , in the houses of the principal nobility ; the peo- ple were for three days under all ...
... minifters of the allied powers . Several fquadrons of Au- ftrian and Pruffian Huffars entered the city , and were quartered from fifty to an hundred , in the houses of the principal nobility ; the peo- ple were for three days under all ...
Page 40
... minifters , to frame a new conftitution and form of govern ment . The Delegates were also appointed to try and punish the affaffins , who were concerned in the attempt upon the King's life ; to receive the ultimata of the three powers ...
... minifters , to frame a new conftitution and form of govern ment . The Delegates were also appointed to try and punish the affaffins , who were concerned in the attempt upon the King's life ; to receive the ultimata of the three powers ...
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... minifters of the allied powers , were at length ratified by the King . Nov. 19th . These treaties , befides an exprefs and definitive ceffion , of thofe provinces which had been already given up in the diet , and profeffions of ...
... minifters of the allied powers , were at length ratified by the King . Nov. 19th . These treaties , befides an exprefs and definitive ceffion , of thofe provinces which had been already given up in the diet , and profeffions of ...
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Page 198 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
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Page 32 - Tupia sustained himself in this scene with a firmness and resolution truly admirable : he wept, indeed, but the effort that he made to conceal his tears, concurred, with them, to do him honour.
Page 23 - ... it very carefully, dipping it continually in the water till nothing remains but the fine fibres of the inner coat. Being thus prepared in the afternoon, they are...
Page 119 - An Act to prevent paper bills of credit hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's colonies or plantations in America from being declared to be a legal tender in payments of money, and to prevent the legal tender of such bills as are now subsisting from being prolonged beyond the periods limited for calling in and sinking the same.
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Page 48 - I gave each of them about four yards of linen, and a spike nail ; with the linen they were much pleased, but seemed to set no value upon the nail. We perceived that they knew what had happened in Poverty Bay, and we had therefore no reason to doubt but that they would behave peaceably ; however, for further security, Tupia...
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