The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...J. Dodsley, 1800 - History |
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... India . State of the native powers , with refpect to each other , and to the Eaft India Company . Greatness of the Maratta empire ; and nature of its power , refources , and government . Infant Ram - Ra- jah depofed , and a government ...
... India . State of the native powers , with refpect to each other , and to the Eaft India Company . Greatness of the Maratta empire ; and nature of its power , refources , and government . Infant Ram - Ra- jah depofed , and a government ...
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... India Com- pany , and the naval force destined to their fupport under Sir Edward Hughes , fully fufficient , not only to fecure their prefent tranquillity , but to lay fuch a foundation of ftrength and profperity as could not eafily be ...
... India Com- pany , and the naval force destined to their fupport under Sir Edward Hughes , fully fufficient , not only to fecure their prefent tranquillity , but to lay fuch a foundation of ftrength and profperity as could not eafily be ...
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... India , had ( to the honour of the public feelings , whether the charges were ill or well founded ) been for fome time a matter of general execration in England . The cenfures paffed in fome in- ftances by the Company , if they did not ...
... India , had ( to the honour of the public feelings , whether the charges were ill or well founded ) been for fome time a matter of general execration in England . The cenfures paffed in fome in- ftances by the Company , if they did not ...
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... India . The warlike nation of the Ma- rattas are the only people in India who at all times refused the Mahomedan yoke . The immenfe power and fuperiority of their enemy , laid them under a neceflity of leeking refuge in the inac ...
... India . The warlike nation of the Ma- rattas are the only people in India who at all times refused the Mahomedan yoke . The immenfe power and fuperiority of their enemy , laid them under a neceflity of leeking refuge in the inac ...
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... India , may be confidered as far the greatest . Nana Row was fucceeded by his eldeft fon Madai , who , dying without iffue , towards the end of the year 1772 , the government , as it was now fettled , of course de- [ 4 ] 3 volved ...
... India , may be confidered as far the greatest . Nana Row was fucceeded by his eldeft fon Madai , who , dying without iffue , towards the end of the year 1772 , the government , as it was now fettled , of course de- [ 4 ] 3 volved ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 322 - 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, through the middle of said lake until it arrives at the water communication between that lake and Lake Huron...
Page 323 - IT is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 324 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons, for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present War ; and that no person shall on that account suffer any future loss or damage either in his person, liberty, or property...
Page 208 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Page 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...
Page 207 - ... none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Page 322 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be Free, Sovereign and Independent States...
Page 208 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply.