Annual Register, Volume 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... subject ; who perhaps felt , that the granting of too much , was the fure means of producing un- grateful and difagreeable claims or applications for more . How ever that was , it was never once thrown out upon thefe occafions , nor did ...
... subject ; who perhaps felt , that the granting of too much , was the fure means of producing un- grateful and difagreeable claims or applications for more . How ever that was , it was never once thrown out upon thefe occafions , nor did ...
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... subject : a mea- " be inftrumental to the difco- fure , however irregular and un- " very of thofe dark detigns ufual , which could not fail effec- " which he had long fufpected tually to rivet their confidence in " to exift in the court ...
... subject : a mea- " be inftrumental to the difco- fure , however irregular and un- " very of thofe dark detigns ufual , which could not fail effec- " which he had long fufpected tually to rivet their confidence in " to exift in the court ...
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... subject at the bar of the House . But from fome appearance of difinclination in go- of injuring , by any hafty proceed- vernment to this ftep , and the fear ing , the perfon whofe fituation he wished to relieve , and partly from a ...
... subject at the bar of the House . But from fome appearance of difinclination in go- of injuring , by any hafty proceed- vernment to this ftep , and the fear ing , the perfon whofe fituation he wished to relieve , and partly from a ...
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... Subjects under litigation in a court of justice should not be ex- amined clfewhere without an ab- folute neceffity , and not even then but with great caution . This point coming thus incidentally before us , in the progrefs of an en ...
... Subjects under litigation in a court of justice should not be ex- amined clfewhere without an ab- folute neceffity , and not even then but with great caution . This point coming thus incidentally before us , in the progrefs of an en ...
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... subject , will make you a fine oration in flowing numbers , and a musical cadence ; but they are the most dishonest of all . The Armenians are gene- rally handfome in their features , mild in their tempers , and in their nature kind and ...
... subject , will make you a fine oration in flowing numbers , and a musical cadence ; but they are the most dishonest of all . The Armenians are gene- rally handfome in their features , mild in their tempers , and in their nature kind and ...
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Page 323 - 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 210 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
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 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 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Page 322 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake 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...
Page 210 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 210 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
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...