The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 20Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 - History |
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... himself off for America , where he continued for two or three years . Iis being of a me- lancholy folitary nature , which neither fought for affociates in crimes , nor admitted of partners in pleasure , as it contributed mach to his ...
... himself off for America , where he continued for two or three years . Iis being of a me- lancholy folitary nature , which neither fought for affociates in crimes , nor admitted of partners in pleasure , as it contributed mach to his ...
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... himself , and must be to every person who regarded the dignity of that Houfe , or who reflected , that the conftitution could fubfift no longer , than while the different parts of the legislature were kept in due poife and proper ...
... himself , and must be to every person who regarded the dignity of that Houfe , or who reflected , that the conftitution could fubfift no longer , than while the different parts of the legislature were kept in due poife and proper ...
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... himself indi- vidually from the bufinefs of par- liament , merely from an opinion that he would be outvoted , and that his attendance would there- fore be ufelefs . They acknow- ledged , that a feceffion , collec- tively in a body , had ...
... himself indi- vidually from the bufinefs of par- liament , merely from an opinion that he would be outvoted , and that his attendance would there- fore be ufelefs . They acknow- ledged , that a feceffion , collec- tively in a body , had ...
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... himself fuddenly feized , carried off without warning from his family , transported to the Highlands of Scotland , the rock of Gibraltar , the burning coasts of Africa , the most peftilential and loathfome legal grounds , or to bring it ...
... himself fuddenly feized , carried off without warning from his family , transported to the Highlands of Scotland , the rock of Gibraltar , the burning coasts of Africa , the most peftilential and loathfome legal grounds , or to bring it ...
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... himself upon the laws of his country for justice , and challenge his accufers to the proof , and to make good their charge ; but the minifterial agent , by whom he was kidnapped , will laugh in his face , and tell him there was no ...
... himself upon the laws of his country for justice , and challenge his accufers to the proof , and to make good their charge ; but the minifterial agent , by whom he was kidnapped , will laugh in his face , and tell him there was no ...
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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.