The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 27J. Dodsley, 1800 |
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... seemed rather to degenerate into a paffion for in- novation , than to be the cool refult of a comprehenfive knowledge and due confideration of things , guided by prudent and practicable views of improvement . They said , that he fet out ...
... seemed rather to degenerate into a paffion for in- novation , than to be the cool refult of a comprehenfive knowledge and due confideration of things , guided by prudent and practicable views of improvement . They said , that he fet out ...
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... seemed clear to all obfervers , that the reftor- ation of the republic , in any de- gree , to its former power and fplendor , was a circumftance which would not admit of a moment's fpeculation ; and that fome con- fiderable revolution ...
... seemed clear to all obfervers , that the reftor- ation of the republic , in any de- gree , to its former power and fplendor , was a circumftance which would not admit of a moment's fpeculation ; and that fome con- fiderable revolution ...
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... seemed to be forgot- ten , that as the caufe was tranfitory , the effect was not very likely to be permanent . It was little to be fuppofed , that fo novel and pleating a state of things could have efcaped the no- tice of the emperor ...
... seemed to be forgot- ten , that as the caufe was tranfitory , the effect was not very likely to be permanent . It was little to be fuppofed , that fo novel and pleating a state of things could have efcaped the no- tice of the emperor ...
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... seemed infupportable . A revolution had been the ufual confequence of much lefs fevere and afflicting trials ; and though the good qualities and po- pularity of the grand fignior , along with the firmnefs of the captain b.fhaw , might ...
... seemed infupportable . A revolution had been the ufual confequence of much lefs fevere and afflicting trials ; and though the good qualities and po- pularity of the grand fignior , along with the firmnefs of the captain b.fhaw , might ...
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... seemed as if it had been thought that enough was not yet done , and that it was determined to push things to extre- mity . For in two or three days after the fame boatman returned to make another experiment ; and tho ' the Dutch ...
... seemed as if it had been thought that enough was not yet done , and that it was determined to push things to extre- mity . For in two or three days after the fame boatman returned to make another experiment ; and tho ' the Dutch ...
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Página 118 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
Página 17 - 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 115 - The business of the women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their memories, for they have no writing, and communicate it to their children. They are the records of the council, and they preserve...
Página 17 - His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency. His countenance was naturally of the cast of an ancient statue, but somewhat disfigured by the scars of that evil, which, it was formerly imagined, the royal touch could cure.
Página 362 - British colonies or plantations ; or on the exportation of any article imported from the British plantations, or any manufacture made of such article, unless in cases where a similar bounty is payable in Great Britain, on exportation from thence, or where such bounty is merely in the nature of a drawback, or compensation of, or for duties paid, over and above any paid thereon in Britain.
Página 11 - His judgment, in whatever related to the services he was engaged in, quick and sure. His designs were bold and manly ; and both in the conception, and in the mode of execution, bore evident marks of a great original genius. His courage was cool and determined, and accompanied with an admirable presence of mind in the moment of danger. His manners were plain and unaffected.
Página 186 - Nero, in all the insolent prodigality of despotism, deal out to his praetorian guards a donation fit to be named with the largess showered down by the bounty of our Chancellor of the Exchequer on the faithful band of his Indian sepoys.
Página 116 - What you have told us, says he, is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat Apples. It is better to make them all into Cyder.
Página 11 - ... abated. No incidental temptation could detain him for a moment; even those intervals of recreation, which sometimes unavoidably occurred, and were looked for by us with a longing, that persons who have experienced the fatigues of service will readily excuse, were submitted to by him with a certain impatience, whenever they could not be employed in making further provision for the more effectual prosecution of his designs.
Página 117 - It is reckoned uncivil in travelling strangers to enter a village abruptly, without giving notice of their approach. Therefore, as soon as they arrive within hearing, they stop and halloo, remaining there till invited to enter.