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... king- dom of Bengal , although the fanction of his name and autho- rity , which they obtained by it , was of infinitely greater value to them in the government of the country : thefe , with other charges of a fimilar nature , were held ...
... king- dom of Bengal , although the fanction of his name and autho- rity , which they obtained by it , was of infinitely greater value to them in the government of the country : thefe , with other charges of a fimilar nature , were held ...
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... King , had put himfelf into the hands of the Company , hoping to derive fome fignal benefit , from making them grants of countries into which he would not be per- mitted to enter , and of revenues which he could not touch , he paffed a ...
... King , had put himfelf into the hands of the Company , hoping to derive fome fignal benefit , from making them grants of countries into which he would not be per- mitted to enter , and of revenues which he could not touch , he paffed a ...
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... king of England and the Com- pany , whom he had confidered as one , but now thought otherwise , he had not yet taken vengeance . He concluded in the following ab- rupt fentences : " It is no mat- " ter ! But if you , henceforth for ...
... king of England and the Com- pany , whom he had confidered as one , but now thought otherwise , he had not yet taken vengeance . He concluded in the following ab- rupt fentences : " It is no mat- " ter ! But if you , henceforth for ...
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Fortified the fea - coafts , and having driven the King of Candy and his fubjects into the interior parts of the island , where he is allowed to retain fuch a degree of autho- rity as is neceffary to their own purposes , they are ...
Fortified the fea - coafts , and having driven the King of Candy and his fubjects into the interior parts of the island , where he is allowed to retain fuch a degree of autho- rity as is neceffary to their own purposes , they are ...
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... king- dom were accordingly ordered to the fouthward , for the protection of that city and coaft ; and the pa- triotic volunteers , who had gain- ed fo much honour in fupporting and reclaiming the liberties of their country , now fhewed ...
... king- dom were accordingly ordered to the fouthward , for the protection of that city and coaft ; and the pa- triotic volunteers , who had gain- ed fo much honour in fupporting and reclaiming the liberties of their country , now fhewed ...
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Página 322 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those...
Página 322 - Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Página 208 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Página 323 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Página 323 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Página 208 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Página 323 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; -thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Página 205 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Página 205 - ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Página 205 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.