The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, 20. kötetEdmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 |
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4. oldal
... whole fleet to anchor in a line , and as near as possible to the enemy , in order to prevent their retreat . In this engagement the best fchooner belonging to the enemy was burnt , and a gondola carrying three or four guns funk , from ...
... whole fleet to anchor in a line , and as near as possible to the enemy , in order to prevent their retreat . In this engagement the best fchooner belonging to the enemy was burnt , and a gondola carrying three or four guns funk , from ...
13. oldal
... whole course of this conteft , have been strongly American , they were readily received and wil- lingly credited . Among other enormities which received the cen- fure of our neighbours in that country , the deftruction of the public ...
... whole course of this conteft , have been strongly American , they were readily received and wil- lingly credited . Among other enormities which received the cen- fure of our neighbours in that country , the deftruction of the public ...
14. oldal
... whole fortune of the war . Such extraordinary effects do fmall events produce , in that last and most uncertain of human de- cifions . Colonel Rall , a brave and ex- perienced officer , was stationed with a brigade of Heffians ...
... whole fortune of the war . Such extraordinary effects do fmall events produce , in that last and most uncertain of human de- cifions . Colonel Rall , a brave and ex- perienced officer , was stationed with a brigade of Heffians ...
15. oldal
... whole province would be inevitably exp fed , as foon as the Delaware was thorough- ly covered with ice , if the enemy , by retaining poffeffion of the oppo- fite fhore , were at hand to profit of that circumftance , whilft he was ...
... whole province would be inevitably exp fed , as foon as the Delaware was thorough- ly covered with ice , if the enemy , by retaining poffeffion of the oppo- fite fhore , were at hand to profit of that circumftance , whilft he was ...
16. oldal
... whole number of prifoners amounted to 918. Thus was one part of General Washington's pro- ject crowned with fuccels ; but the two others failed in the execution , the quantity of ice being fo great , that the divifions under Erwing and ...
... whole number of prifoners amounted to 918. Thus was one part of General Washington's pro- ject crowned with fuccels ; but the two others failed in the execution , the quantity of ice being fo great , that the divifions under Erwing and ...
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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.