The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, 20. kötetEdmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 |
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1. oldal
... fituation . General Washington quits his camp , and attacks Colonel Mawhood , near Princetown . Lord Ĉornwallis retures from the Delaware to Brunswick . Americans over - run the Jerfeys . British and Auxiliary forces keep poffeffion of ...
... fituation . General Washington quits his camp , and attacks Colonel Mawhood , near Princetown . Lord Ĉornwallis retures from the Delaware to Brunswick . Americans over - run the Jerfeys . British and Auxiliary forces keep poffeffion of ...
5. oldal
... fituation , to compenfate for the want of force , than he did ; that when his veffels were torn almoft to pieces , he retreated with the fame refolution that he fought , and by the happieft and most critical judgment , prevented his ...
... fituation , to compenfate for the want of force , than he did ; that when his veffels were torn almoft to pieces , he retreated with the fame refolution that he fought , and by the happieft and most critical judgment , prevented his ...
7. oldal
... fituation to Col. Harcourt , who commanded the light horfe , and had then made a detu.tory excurfion at the head of a fmall detachment to obferve the motions of that body , he conduct- ed his measures with fuch addrefs and activity ...
... fituation to Col. Harcourt , who commanded the light horfe , and had then made a detu.tory excurfion at the head of a fmall detachment to obferve the motions of that body , he conduct- ed his measures with fuch addrefs and activity ...
9. oldal
... fituation afforded too alarm- ing an experience , of the fatal con- fequences which might attend that period of utter imbecility , between the extinction of the old army , and the establishment of the new . To guard against this evil in ...
... fituation afforded too alarm- ing an experience , of the fatal con- fequences which might attend that period of utter imbecility , between the extinction of the old army , and the establishment of the new . To guard against this evil in ...
10. oldal
... fituation of their affairs time before been adopted on the became extremely critical , and the fide of the crown , large grants prefervation of Philadelphia to all of vacant lands , to be diftributed appearance hopele's , at the time at ...
... fituation of their affairs time before been adopted on the became extremely critical , and the fide of the crown , large grants prefervation of Philadelphia to all of vacant lands , to be diftributed appearance hopele's , at the time at ...
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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.