The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., Volume 12G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1792 - English poetry |
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Y BRITISH AND FOREIGN HISTORY ; For the Year 1791 . Y 1 K A a new constitution of things would elevate them to that.
Y BRITISH AND FOREIGN HISTORY ; For the Year 1791 . Y 1 K A a new constitution of things would elevate them to that.
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a new constitution of things would elevate them to that rank , to which , from their merits , they conceived themselves entitled . The two great parties , which were afterwards to divide the nation , were already formed . The ...
a new constitution of things would elevate them to that rank , to which , from their merits , they conceived themselves entitled . The two great parties , which were afterwards to divide the nation , were already formed . The ...
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... constitution , the divifion of orders , and their refpective veto , and that in these principles they were determined to perfevere . " The fe- rond conferences therefore were equally unfuccefsful with the first . In the course of these ...
... constitution , the divifion of orders , and their refpective veto , and that in these principles they were determined to perfevere . " The fe- rond conferences therefore were equally unfuccefsful with the first . In the course of these ...
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... constitution , the fenate or upper houfe was to be compofed of members chofen for life ; but M. Mounier thought that this high dig . nity ought to be conferred only for feven years . This propofed organization was univerfally ...
... constitution , the fenate or upper houfe was to be compofed of members chofen for life ; but M. Mounier thought that this high dig . nity ought to be conferred only for feven years . This propofed organization was univerfally ...
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... constitutional articles did not all indifcriminately prefent him with the idea of perfection , yet he thought it proper to pay this re- fpect to the wifh of the affembly , and to the alarming circumftances which fo ftrongly preffed him ...
... constitutional articles did not all indifcriminately prefent him with the idea of perfection , yet he thought it proper to pay this re- fpect to the wifh of the affembly , and to the alarming circumftances which fo ftrongly preffed him ...
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