The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 20Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 - History |
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... said , the war was car- ried on , not only by the auxiliaries , but even by the British forces them felves . Complaints of this kind held a diftinguished place in all the Ame- rican publications of that time . Some of them , indeed ...
... said , the war was car- ried on , not only by the auxiliaries , but even by the British forces them felves . Complaints of this kind held a diftinguished place in all the Ame- rican publications of that time . Some of them , indeed ...
Page 92
... said that the gentle- man had come to the point at once ; the charge was open and direct ; the Speaker had either misreprefented the fenfe of the house , or he had not ; the question was fairly at iffue , and could be decided only by ...
... said that the gentle- man had come to the point at once ; the charge was open and direct ; the Speaker had either misreprefented the fenfe of the house , or he had not ; the question was fairly at iffue , and could be decided only by ...
Page 188
... said , being gene- ral , prevented the court from a le gal difcuffion of the reasons upon which the writ was granted , and fuggefted a mode by which the fub . ject could more effectually get re- lief by inferting in the return a ...
... said , being gene- ral , prevented the court from a le gal difcuffion of the reasons upon which the writ was granted , and fuggefted a mode by which the fub . ject could more effectually get re- lief by inferting in the return a ...
Page 233
... said , urgent neceffity was the caufe ; that the witnefs then asked the prifoner if he had any of the money left , as the reftitution would be the only means of faving him . Dr. Dodd replied , he had fix drafts on Sir Charles Raymond ...
... said , urgent neceffity was the caufe ; that the witnefs then asked the prifoner if he had any of the money left , as the reftitution would be the only means of faving him . Dr. Dodd replied , he had fix drafts on Sir Charles Raymond ...
Page 239
... said they were the mi- nister's house , who fat between his two brafen pillars , the attorney and folicitor - general , like Jachin and Boaz , to guard the treafury- bench . 8 As foon as Mr. Horne had f- nifhed his fpeech , he defired ...
... said they were the mi- nister's house , who fat between his two brafen pillars , the attorney and folicitor - general , like Jachin and Boaz , to guard the treafury- bench . 8 As foon as Mr. Horne had f- nifhed his fpeech , he defired ...
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Page 3 - ... religious factions, they seemed to be disarmed in my behalf of their wonted fury. My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct: not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability. I cannot...
Page 266 - ¡rinds, tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great - Britain, called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and that a proportionable cefs, according to the ninth article of the treaty of union, be laid upon that part of Great-Britain called Scotland, 1,500,000!.
Page 111 - Then plunge under it with your eyes open, throwing yourself towards the egg, and endeavouring by the action of your hands and feet against the water to get forward till within reach of it. In this attempt you will find that the water buoys you up against your inclination; that it is not so easy a thing to sink as you imagined; that you cannot but by active force get down to the egg.
Page 138 - Hones had formerly been dug; and that it would have been no difficult matter to roll them down the hill after they were formed. I think this a very reafonable conjecture ; and have no doubt that it has been fo.
Page 74 - ... both capital and profit. They are the projects, therefore, to which of all others a prudent lawgiver, who...
Page 193 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail.
Page 259 - the necessity of preventing the American trade from passing into foreign Channels.
Page 75 - That there may be a continent, or large tract of land, near the Pole, I will not deny; on the contrary I am of opinion there is; and it is probable that we have seen a part of it.