The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...J. Dodsley, 1788 - History |
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... less than the fending of a force for the invafion and reduction of that country . A measure of fo extraordinary a nature required the most ferious confideration . The commencing of an offenfive war with the fove- reign , was a new and ...
... less than the fending of a force for the invafion and reduction of that country . A measure of fo extraordinary a nature required the most ferious confideration . The commencing of an offenfive war with the fove- reign , was a new and ...
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... less than his own ge- aius could furmount . The diffi- culty of conducting and governing an army , compofed wholly of new foldiers , and thefe led directly from their civil occupations to the feld , even fuppofing them raised in old ...
... less than his own ge- aius could furmount . The diffi- culty of conducting and governing an army , compofed wholly of new foldiers , and thefe led directly from their civil occupations to the feld , even fuppofing them raised in old ...
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... less than Lord Dunmore's could be on land . It may , however , be fuppofed , that the Governor's conduct was ope- rated upon by caufes , or influenced by motives , with which we are un- acquainted . Upon receiving the forgoing anfwer ...
... less than Lord Dunmore's could be on land . It may , however , be fuppofed , that the Governor's conduct was ope- rated upon by caufes , or influenced by motives , with which we are un- acquainted . Upon receiving the forgoing anfwer ...
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... and now ufelefs , enquiries . When once the people were heartily engaged in a war , they would never wait to recollect ; much less to animadvert [ C ] 3 on , on , the original caufes of difpute ; but would HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 37.
... and now ufelefs , enquiries . When once the people were heartily engaged in a war , they would never wait to recollect ; much less to animadvert [ C ] 3 on , on , the original caufes of difpute ; but would HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 37.
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... less than a renun- ciation of their allegiance . On the other hand , the friends of the ministry took it in a different point of view . The petition , they allowed , had a decent appearance . But did they formally admit the rights of ...
... less than a renun- ciation of their allegiance . On the other hand , the friends of the ministry took it in a different point of view . The petition , they allowed , had a decent appearance . But did they formally admit the rights of ...
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Page 238 - 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. The slave of Imperial despotism, whether he was condemned to drag his gilded chain in Rome and the senate, or to wear out a life of exile on the barren rock of Seriphus, or the frozen banks of the Danube, expected...
Page 143 - 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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