Annual Register, Volumen25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 |
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... arms in the year 1778 , by the taking of Pondi- cherry , and the entire reduction of all the French fettlements in that part of the world , feemed , along with the powerful armies in the hands of the Eaft India Com- pany , and the naval ...
... arms in the year 1778 , by the taking of Pondi- cherry , and the entire reduction of all the French fettlements in that part of the world , feemed , along with the powerful armies in the hands of the Eaft India Com- pany , and the naval ...
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Edmund Burke. difficult to keep arms long unem- ployed in the hands of thofe who have been accustomed to use them with great effect and advantage . Such a restraint requires a ftrong and immediate controul ; and is not eafily practicable ...
Edmund Burke. difficult to keep arms long unem- ployed in the hands of thofe who have been accustomed to use them with great effect and advantage . Such a restraint requires a ftrong and immediate controul ; and is not eafily practicable ...
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... arms , ammunition , and all thofe military neceffaries which enabled him in a very fhort time to renew the war with fo much fuccefs and advantage against the Marattas . That politic nation faw the infinite advantage that might be ...
... arms , ammunition , and all thofe military neceffaries which enabled him in a very fhort time to renew the war with fo much fuccefs and advantage against the Marattas . That politic nation faw the infinite advantage that might be ...
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... arms would only ferve to precipitate affairs into a ftill more ruinous and dangerous ftate . That a remote and doubt- ful danger would be readily hazarded , to efcape that which was certain and immediate . And , that however contrary to ...
... arms would only ferve to precipitate affairs into a ftill more ruinous and dangerous ftate . That a remote and doubt- ful danger would be readily hazarded , to efcape that which was certain and immediate . And , that however contrary to ...
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... arms ; and the lofs varying according to circum- ftances . Thus conftantly har- raffed , the army could only ad- vance at the rate of from three to four miles a day . On the 4th of January , Capt . Stuart , a brave officer , who ...
... arms ; and the lofs varying according to circum- ftances . Thus conftantly har- raffed , the army could only ad- vance at the rate of from three to four miles a day . On the 4th of January , Capt . Stuart , a brave officer , who ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 323 - 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 210 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Página 322 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries...
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 207 - 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 322 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Página 210 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Página 210 - 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 322 - 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...