Annual Register, Volume 27Edmund Burke 1787 |
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... house of Austria , the advantages of this arrangement were repeatedly and fully experi- enced ; and occafions offered which made it evident , that nothing lefs could have prevented the Nether- lands from being long fince wrefted out of ...
... house of Austria , the advantages of this arrangement were repeatedly and fully experi- enced ; and occafions offered which made it evident , that nothing lefs could have prevented the Nether- lands from being long fince wrefted out of ...
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... house of Bour bon , these provinces , thick fown as they then were with the strongest fortreffes in the world , and de- fended by thofe numerous and ve- teran armies which had so long been the terror of Europe . That as they were the ...
... house of Bour bon , these provinces , thick fown as they then were with the strongest fortreffes in the world , and de- fended by thofe numerous and ve- teran armies which had so long been the terror of Europe . That as they were the ...
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... houses ; but beyond all , the motion of the earth in that fhock was vertical , rifing fuddenly upwards from its founda- tions , and as fuddenly finking again . By this fatal motion , the greatest buildings , villages , towns , and ...
... houses ; but beyond all , the motion of the earth in that fhock was vertical , rifing fuddenly upwards from its founda- tions , and as fuddenly finking again . By this fatal motion , the greatest buildings , villages , towns , and ...
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... houses , and lived in barracks ; and the motion of the earth being fome- what different in the fucceeding Shocks , though ... house in the city of Oppido . Yet , with all thefe advantages of fortune , he was for feveral days and nights ...
... houses , and lived in barracks ; and the motion of the earth being fome- what different in the fucceeding Shocks , though ... house in the city of Oppido . Yet , with all thefe advantages of fortune , he was for feveral days and nights ...
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... House of Commons in 1781. Objects of the felect committee . Objects of the fecret committee . The King's approbation of their proceedings . Reports of the fecret committee brought to the house April 1782. Account of Mr. Dundas's Speech ...
... House of Commons in 1781. Objects of the felect committee . Objects of the fecret committee . The King's approbation of their proceedings . Reports of the fecret committee brought to the house April 1782. Account of Mr. Dundas's Speech ...
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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.