Annual Register, Volume 19Edmund Burke 1779 - History |
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... continued for fome days , and might have been fuppofed to have anfwered the former of thofe in- tentions , by throwing the garrifon into diforder ; but the intrepidity of the Governor , feconded by the bravery , indefatigable industry ...
... continued for fome days , and might have been fuppofed to have anfwered the former of thofe in- tentions , by throwing the garrifon into diforder ; but the intrepidity of the Governor , feconded by the bravery , indefatigable industry ...
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... continued . The time for which many of the foldiers had engaged was alfo expired , or expiring ; and it could not be answered how foon they might infift upon return- ing home , nor whether fuch an event would not totally break up the ...
... continued . The time for which many of the foldiers had engaged was alfo expired , or expiring ; and it could not be answered how foon they might infift upon return- ing home , nor whether fuch an event would not totally break up the ...
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... continued ; that there was a general acquiefcence every where in the determinations of the Gene- ral and Provincial Congrefs ; but they all concurred in believing , that the people had no defign or with of an independency on Great ...
... continued ; that there was a general acquiefcence every where in the determinations of the Gene- ral and Provincial Congrefs ; but they all concurred in believing , that the people had no defign or with of an independency on Great ...
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... continued intercourfe , by addreffes , meffages , and anfwers , between the Houfe of Burgeffes and the Fowey . This was a fingular fitua- tion ; an attempt to govern , with- out choofing , or finding it fafe , to fet a foot on fhore in ...
... continued intercourfe , by addreffes , meffages , and anfwers , between the Houfe of Burgeffes and the Fowey . This was a fingular fitua- tion ; an attempt to govern , with- out choofing , or finding it fafe , to fet a foot on fhore in ...
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... continued intercourfe , by addreffes , meffages , and answers , between the Houfe of Burgeffes and the Fowey . This was a fingular fitua- tion ; an attempt to govern , with- out choofing , or finding it fafe , to fet a foot on fhore in ...
... continued intercourfe , by addreffes , meffages , and answers , between the Houfe of Burgeffes and the Fowey . This was a fingular fitua- tion ; an attempt to govern , with- out choofing , or finding it fafe , to fet a foot on fhore in ...
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