The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...J. Dodsley, 1800 - History |
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... hope to protect open countries from their ravages . The wars of the ancient Parthians throw no fmall light on the oppofite advan- tages and difadvantages in both cafes . The prefent ufe of artillery , however , inclines the scale ...
... hope to protect open countries from their ravages . The wars of the ancient Parthians throw no fmall light on the oppofite advan- tages and difadvantages in both cafes . The prefent ufe of artillery , however , inclines the scale ...
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... hope of farther progrefs . They were already fo completely furrounded , that every kind of fupply , and all inter- courfe with the country , were en- tirely cut off . The enemy had been every hour encreafing in force from the time of ...
... hope of farther progrefs . They were already fo completely furrounded , that every kind of fupply , and all inter- courfe with the country , were en- tirely cut off . The enemy had been every hour encreafing in force from the time of ...
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... hope of reward prompted thefe men to communicate the difcovery to Ma- jor Popham . This vigilant and diftinguifhed officer immediately employed fome perfons of judg- ment , on whom he could firmly rely , to attend the Mewattes by night ...
... hope of reward prompted thefe men to communicate the difcovery to Ma- jor Popham . This vigilant and diftinguifhed officer immediately employed fome perfons of judg- ment , on whom he could firmly rely , to attend the Mewattes by night ...
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... hope of making an effectual refiftance . The nabob's intelligence and ad- vice were both good , but his root- ed enmity to Hyder Ally ren dered them fufpected , and proba- bly , not always without reafon . He had long urged the ...
... hope of making an effectual refiftance . The nabob's intelligence and ad- vice were both good , but his root- ed enmity to Hyder Ally ren dered them fufpected , and proba- bly , not always without reafon . He had long urged the ...
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... hope of an enterprize which might have had great effect in changing the fortune of the war , was not only overthrown , but it was with great difficulty , and no fmall ex- ertion of diligence and activity , that Cofby's party efcaped ...
... hope of an enterprize which might have had great effect in changing the fortune of the war , was not only overthrown , but it was with great difficulty , and no fmall ex- ertion of diligence and activity , that Cofby's party efcaped ...
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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.