Annual Register, Volume 27Edmund Burke 1787 |
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... lefs fo ; and were still more interefting to Englishmen . Within the period of which we treat , one parliament had been fuddenly diffolved , a new one fpeedily called , and and we had the hiftory of three feffions , filled PREFACE .
... lefs fo ; and were still more interefting to Englishmen . Within the period of which we treat , one parliament had been fuddenly diffolved , a new one fpeedily called , and and we had the hiftory of three feffions , filled PREFACE .
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... called Ballatta , which was moftly inha- bited by Jews , and a most populous part of the town . The wind being high , and the weather for fome time preceding very dry , it spread with the utmost rapidity , and threatened the whole city ...
... called Ballatta , which was moftly inha- bited by Jews , and a most populous part of the town . The wind being high , and the weather for fome time preceding very dry , it spread with the utmost rapidity , and threatened the whole city ...
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... called , fpirited memo- rials , were presented from the courts of Petersburgh and Vienna ; in which , befides other things , it was peremptorily infifted , that the Porte fhould not in future , under any pre- tence , intermeddle in the ...
... called , fpirited memo- rials , were presented from the courts of Petersburgh and Vienna ; in which , befides other things , it was peremptorily infifted , that the Porte fhould not in future , under any pre- tence , intermeddle in the ...
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... called on his Majesty's mi- nifters either to fupport him in car- rying through the bufinefs , or to bring forward , without delay , any other measures they might judge more effectual for the accomplish- ment of those great and ...
... called on his Majesty's mi- nifters either to fupport him in car- rying through the bufinefs , or to bring forward , without delay , any other measures they might judge more effectual for the accomplish- ment of those great and ...
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... called the Guntoor Circar , fhould remain in the poffeffion of Bazalet Jung during his life , or un- til it was the Nizam's pleasure that the company fhould take poffeffion of it : the fecond , that the company fhould pay to the Nizam ...
... called the Guntoor Circar , fhould remain in the poffeffion of Bazalet Jung during his life , or un- til it was the Nizam's pleasure that the company fhould take poffeffion of it : the fecond , that the company fhould pay to the Nizam ...
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