Annual Register, Volumen27Edmund Burke 1787 |
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... late extensive war , and its fucceeding confequences , occafioned , ex- cited us to make a vigorous , and , as we hoped , decifive effort , for the recovery of our former fituation in point of time . This was no lefs than to throw the ...
... late extensive war , and its fucceeding confequences , occafioned , ex- cited us to make a vigorous , and , as we hoped , decifive effort , for the recovery of our former fituation in point of time . This was no lefs than to throw the ...
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... late reign ( and they were pro- bably the first endeavours of the fort that had ever been used ) to restrain the oppreffion of the lords , and to better the condition of these people . Yet much remained to be done , and the glory of ...
... late reign ( and they were pro- bably the first endeavours of the fort that had ever been used ) to restrain the oppreffion of the lords , and to better the condition of these people . Yet much remained to be done , and the glory of ...
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... late emperor Charles the Sixth . That prince having , in the course of his adven- tures , voyages , expeditions , and wars , feen the great effects of mari- time power and commerce , and having no other fea - port in all his dominions ...
... late emperor Charles the Sixth . That prince having , in the course of his adven- tures , voyages , expeditions , and wars , feen the great effects of mari- time power and commerce , and having no other fea - port in all his dominions ...
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... late emprefs queen , however , refumed the defign , and fupported it with greater vigour as well as fuccefs . A magnificent road from Vienna to Triefte , which would not have difgraced the labours of the ancient Romans , was opened ...
... late emprefs queen , however , refumed the defign , and fupported it with greater vigour as well as fuccefs . A magnificent road from Vienna to Triefte , which would not have difgraced the labours of the ancient Romans , was opened ...
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... late un- fortunate war with Ruffia . So much was to be done , that it would have required many years of tranquillity , and an unremitted pursuit of the wifeft and moft vigorous measures , to have accomplished the reforms that were ...
... late un- fortunate war with Ruffia . So much was to be done , that it would have required many years of tranquillity , and an unremitted pursuit of the wifeft and moft vigorous measures , to have accomplished the reforms that were ...
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Página 186 - But on this grand point of the restoration of the country, there is not one syllable to be found in the correspondence of our ministers, from the...
Página 15 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Página 56 - because they had acted in a manner repugnant to the honour and policy of this nation, and thereby brought great calamities on India, and enormous expenses on the East India company*" Here was no attempt on the charter.
Página 16 - 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.
Página 183 - It is therefore not from treasuries and mines, but from the food of your unpaid armies, from the blood withheld from the veins, and whipt out of the backs of the most miserable of men, that we are to pamper extortion, usury, and peculation, under the false names of debtors and creditors of state.
Página 186 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...
Página 115 - If a white man in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I treat you; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Página 115 - This made it clear to me that my suspicion was right, and that whatever they pretended of meeting to learn good things, the real purpose was to consult how to cheat Indians in the price of beaver.
Página 284 - The Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a farmer.