The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 20Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 - History |
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... former efteem , and future approbation , were , of course , in fome degree hazarded . The importance and magnitude of our historical business have unhappily rifen to nearly the highest pitch at which they feem capable of arriving . We ...
... former efteem , and future approbation , were , of course , in fome degree hazarded . The importance and magnitude of our historical business have unhappily rifen to nearly the highest pitch at which they feem capable of arriving . We ...
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... former , naturally fierce and cruel , ignorant of any rights but thofe of defpotifm , and of any manners , but thofe eftablished with- in the narrow precinct of their own government , were incapable of forming any diftinction between ...
... former , naturally fierce and cruel , ignorant of any rights but thofe of defpotifm , and of any manners , but thofe eftablished with- in the narrow precinct of their own government , were incapable of forming any diftinction between ...
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... former , contending themselves for freedom , and filled with the higheft notions of the na- tural rights of mankind , regarded with equal contempt and abhor- rence , a people , whom they con- fidered as the moft fordid of all mercenary ...
... former , contending themselves for freedom , and filled with the higheft notions of the na- tural rights of mankind , regarded with equal contempt and abhor- rence , a people , whom they con- fidered as the moft fordid of all mercenary ...
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... former . Nor could the effect be confined to the immediate fufferers ; the exaggerated details which were publifhed of these enormities , ferv- ing to embitter the minds of men exceedingly through all the colo- nies . Thefe accounts ...
... former . Nor could the effect be confined to the immediate fufferers ; the exaggerated details which were publifhed of these enormities , ferv- ing to embitter the minds of men exceedingly through all the colo- nies . Thefe accounts ...
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... former warfare upon the fame ground , and that the martial fpirit now prevalent in the colonies , was extended to their remoteft frontiers . They were not only repulied or defeated in every action , by the neighbouring militia of ...
... former warfare upon the fame ground , and that the martial fpirit now prevalent in the colonies , was extended to their remoteft frontiers . They were not only repulied or defeated in every action , by the neighbouring militia of ...
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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.