The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 27J. Dodsley, 1800 - History |
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... clofe of the year . The Jewish nation or people , who through a long course of cen- turies had fo often been doomed to lament the caprices or rapacity of monarchs , and to become vic- tims to the revolutions of ftates , were now among ...
... clofe of the year . The Jewish nation or people , who through a long course of cen- turies had fo often been doomed to lament the caprices or rapacity of monarchs , and to become vic- tims to the revolutions of ftates , were now among ...
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... clofe of the year , the Dutch garrifons and artillery were almoft ilently withdrawn from the barrier , and the emperor's or- der for dismantling the fortreffes , and felling the materials , feems to have been the first public annunci ...
... clofe of the year , the Dutch garrifons and artillery were almoft ilently withdrawn from the barrier , and the emperor's or- der for dismantling the fortreffes , and felling the materials , feems to have been the first public annunci ...
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... clofe of the year 1781 , by which flavery is for ever abolished in those three coun- tries . A measure , though exceed- ingly grievous to the nobles at pre- fent , and perhaps attended with fome immediate detraction of their revenues ...
... clofe of the year 1781 , by which flavery is for ever abolished in those three coun- tries . A measure , though exceed- ingly grievous to the nobles at pre- fent , and perhaps attended with fome immediate detraction of their revenues ...
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... clofe of the preceding year , an edict had been published at Bruffels , by which all the religious houfes in the Austrian Netherlands , of whatever denomination , were dif charged and exempted from every degree of foreign ecclefiaftical ...
... clofe of the preceding year , an edict had been published at Bruffels , by which all the religious houfes in the Austrian Netherlands , of whatever denomination , were dif charged and exempted from every degree of foreign ecclefiaftical ...
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... clofe of the year 1782. Hofpodar of Wallachia ftrangled . Excellent conduct of the grand fignior , with respect to the perfecution carried on by the Armenian pa- triarch . Vaft preparations for war on all fides in the year 1783. Treaty ...
... clofe of the year 1782. Hofpodar of Wallachia ftrangled . Excellent conduct of the grand fignior , with respect to the perfecution carried on by the Armenian pa- triarch . Vaft preparations for war on all fides in the year 1783. Treaty ...
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Page 118 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
Page 17 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Page 115 - The business of the women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their memories, for they have no writing, and communicate it to their children. They are the records of the council, and they preserve...
Page 17 - His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency. His countenance was naturally of the cast of an ancient statue, but somewhat disfigured by the scars of that evil, which, it was formerly imagined, the royal touch could cure.
Page 362 - British colonies or plantations ; or on the exportation of any article imported from the British plantations, or any manufacture made of such article, unless in cases where a similar bounty is payable in Great Britain, on exportation from thence, or where such bounty is merely in the nature of a drawback, or compensation of, or for duties paid, over and above any paid thereon in Britain.
Page 11 - His judgment, in whatever related to the services he was engaged in, quick and sure. His designs were bold and manly ; and both in the conception, and in the mode of execution, bore evident marks of a great original genius. His courage was cool and determined, and accompanied with an admirable presence of mind in the moment of danger. His manners were plain and unaffected.
Page 186 - Nero, in all the insolent prodigality of despotism, deal out to his praetorian guards a donation fit to be named with the largess showered down by the bounty of our Chancellor of the Exchequer on the faithful band of his Indian sepoys.
Page 116 - What you have told us, says he, is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat Apples. It is better to make them all into Cyder.
Page 11 - ... abated. No incidental temptation could detain him for a moment; even those intervals of recreation, which sometimes unavoidably occurred, and were looked for by us with a longing, that persons who have experienced the fatigues of service will readily excuse, were submitted to by him with a certain impatience, whenever they could not be employed in making further provision for the more effectual prosecution of his designs.
Page 117 - It is reckoned uncivil in travelling strangers to enter a village abruptly, without giving notice of their approach. Therefore, as soon as they arrive within hearing, they stop and halloo, remaining there till invited to enter.