Annual Register of World Events, 23. köide1781 |
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... respect to Ame- rica , operated more forcibly upon her conduct on this occafion , than any German treaties or connec- tions . In the contemplation and purfuit of thefe grand and capital objects , the neceflity of keeping her force whole ...
... respect to Ame- rica , operated more forcibly upon her conduct on this occafion , than any German treaties or connec- tions . In the contemplation and purfuit of thefe grand and capital objects , the neceflity of keeping her force whole ...
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... respect to the firft of thefe articles , we have formerly had occafion to obferve , that nothing lefs than the most urgent neceflity , under the preffure of immediate and imminent danger , could have induced the Porte to admit Ruffia to ...
... respect to the firft of thefe articles , we have formerly had occafion to obferve , that nothing lefs than the most urgent neceflity , under the preffure of immediate and imminent danger , could have induced the Porte to admit Ruffia to ...
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... respect to the charge of fupporting popery , they hold the following language , having first laid it down as a poftulatum , that whenever that religion is establish- ed , liberty is banished ; viz . " We are certainly authorized to fay ...
... respect to the charge of fupporting popery , they hold the following language , having first laid it down as a poftulatum , that whenever that religion is establish- ed , liberty is banished ; viz . " We are certainly authorized to fay ...
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... respect to the refractory co- lonies , ( a mistaken tenderness , to which many were apt to attri- bate the fpinning out of the con- teft for fo many years ) fo the war would have been carried on in the enfuing campaign , with a degree ...
... respect to the refractory co- lonies , ( a mistaken tenderness , to which many were apt to attri- bate the fpinning out of the con- teft for fo many years ) fo the war would have been carried on in the enfuing campaign , with a degree ...
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... respect to Plymouth , the charge was partly denied , its force weakened , by alledging the con- viction of government that no de- barkation was there intended by the enemy , and the attention was called off from the paft to the pre ...
... respect to Plymouth , the charge was partly denied , its force weakened , by alledging the con- viction of government that no de- barkation was there intended by the enemy , and the attention was called off from the paft to the pre ...
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Page 149 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 254 - Rome are superstitious and idolatrous, and I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me as they are commonly understood by English Protestants without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 168 - From the middle of this parterre is a descent by many steps flying on each side of a grotto that lies between them, covered with lead and flat, into the lower garden which is all...
Page 254 - ... the Pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God, or man, or absolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other person or persons, or power whatsoever, should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 163 - Some dry the black'ning clusters in the sun. Others to tread the liquid harvest join, The groaning presses foam with floods of wine. Here are the vines in early flow'r descry'd, Here grapes discolour'd on the sunny side, And there in Autumn's richest purple dy'd. ' Beds of all various herbs, for ever green, In beauteous order terminate the scene.
Page 253 - I do renounce, reject, and abjure, the opinion that Princes excommunicated by the Pope and Council, or by any authority of the See of Rome, or by any authority whatsoever, may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects, or by any person whatsoever...
Page 395 - Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your Excellency and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honor.
Page 169 - I should hardly advise any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us; they are adventures of too hard achievement for any common hands; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will; whereas in regular figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults.
Page 63 - I could furnish to her was an open boat, and a few lines written upon dirty and wet paper, to General Gates, recommending her to his protection.
Page 252 - Reversion, or Remainder, any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick...