The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 19Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1788 - History |
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... give fome fanction to the holding of a convention , a Provin- cial Congress was affembled in the month of March , 1775 , who immediately ( under the cover of an old law of the year 1738 , which they faid to be ftill effective ) took ...
... give fome fanction to the holding of a convention , a Provin- cial Congress was affembled in the month of March , 1775 , who immediately ( under the cover of an old law of the year 1738 , which they faid to be ftill effective ) took ...
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... give his affent to them and finish the feffion . They ob- ferved , that though the bufinefs had been greatly impeded by his abfence from the feat of govern- ment , and they had fubmitted to the inconvenience of repeatedly fending their ...
... give his affent to them and finish the feffion . They ob- ferved , that though the bufinefs had been greatly impeded by his abfence from the feat of govern- ment , and they had fubmitted to the inconvenience of repeatedly fending their ...
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... give any information , aid , or affiftance , to fuch British troops as fhould at any time arrive in it , fo they were to be entirely free in their conduct otherwise , to enjoy a fafe neutrality , and to fuffer no moleftation , for their ...
... give any information , aid , or affiftance , to fuch British troops as fhould at any time arrive in it , fo they were to be entirely free in their conduct otherwise , to enjoy a fafe neutrality , and to fuffer no moleftation , for their ...
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... give way to thefe ad- dreffes in the form in which they were brought in . An amendment to the addrefs in the Houfe of Commons was moved for by Lord John Cavendish , propofing to leave out the whole , except the intro . ductory paragraph ...
... give way to thefe ad- dreffes in the form in which they were brought in . An amendment to the addrefs in the Houfe of Commons was moved for by Lord John Cavendish , propofing to leave out the whole , except the intro . ductory paragraph ...
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... give their approbation to the dangerous and fanguinary measures propofed in the fpeech , until they had , at laft , confidered the fubject , and had the neceffary information laid before them . They were afked , if they would for ever ...
... give their approbation to the dangerous and fanguinary measures propofed in the fpeech , until they had , at laft , confidered the fubject , and had the neceffary information laid before them . They were afked , if they would for ever ...
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Page 19 - In these four sciences of logic, morals, criticism, and politics, is comprehended almost every thing which it can any way import us to be acquainted with, or which can tend either to the improvement or ornament of the human mind.
Page 224 - But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and, when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies.
Page 135 - Aurelian. The fame of Longinus, who was included among the numerous and perhaps innocent victims of her fear, will survive that of the queen who betrayed, or the tyrant who condemned him.
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Page 133 - Egypt, the nations subject to her empire had joined the standard of the conqueror, who detached Probus, the bravest of his generals, to possess himself of the Egyptian provinces. Palmyra was the last resource of the widow of Odenathus. She retired within the walls of her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous resistance, and declared, with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the last moment of her reign and of her life should be the same.
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