The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, 20. kötetEdmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 |
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6. oldal
... should now turn our attention to the important tranfactions in the South . We faw towards the conclufion of the laft campaign , that Lord Corn- wallis had not only overrun the Jerfeys , but that the Delaware was the only apparent ...
... should now turn our attention to the important tranfactions in the South . We faw towards the conclufion of the laft campaign , that Lord Corn- wallis had not only overrun the Jerfeys , but that the Delaware was the only apparent ...
8. oldal
... should throw him into his power . Gen. Wash- ington not having at this time any prifoner of equal rank with Lee , propofed to exchange fix field of ficers for him , the number being intended to balance that disparity ; or if this was ...
... should throw him into his power . Gen. Wash- ington not having at this time any prifoner of equal rank with Lee , propofed to exchange fix field of ficers for him , the number being intended to balance that disparity ; or if this was ...
12. oldal
... should not operate in fome degree in their example upon the British troops . It would have been difficult to have punish- ed enormities oa which were practifed without re ferve or apprehenfion on the other , Every fuccessful deviation ...
... should not operate in fome degree in their example upon the British troops . It would have been difficult to have punish- ed enormities oa which were practifed without re ferve or apprehenfion on the other , Every fuccessful deviation ...
32. oldal
... should be in a respectable ftate of de- fence at home . The great confe- quent expence was regretted ; but no doubt was entertained , that the importance of the objects under confideration , would procure chearful grant of the necefiary ...
... should be in a respectable ftate of de- fence at home . The great confe- quent expence was regretted ; but no doubt was entertained , that the importance of the objects under confideration , would procure chearful grant of the necefiary ...
34. oldal
... should tend to break the fpirit of any large part of the British na- tion to bow them to an abject unconditional fubmiflion to any power whatfoever ; to annihilate their liberties , and to fubdue them to fervile principles and paffive ...
... should tend to break the fpirit of any large part of the British na- tion to bow them to an abject unconditional fubmiflion to any power whatfoever ; to annihilate their liberties , and to fubdue them to fervile principles and paffive ...
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3. oldal - ... 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...
266. oldal - ¡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!.
111. oldal - 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.
138. oldal - 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.
74. oldal - ... both capital and profit. They are the projects, therefore, to which of all others a prudent lawgiver, who...
193. oldal - 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.
259. oldal - the necessity of preventing the American trade from passing into foreign Channels.
75. oldal - 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.