Annual Register of World Events, Volume 251800 - History |
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... received for accommodating matters ; but before an anfwer could be return- ed , the old torch of difcord fud- denly and unexpectedly blazed up again between the parties , Rago- naut Row having made his escape from the cuftody of Madajee ...
... received for accommodating matters ; but before an anfwer could be return- ed , the old torch of difcord fud- denly and unexpectedly blazed up again between the parties , Rago- naut Row having made his escape from the cuftody of Madajee ...
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... received no manner of intelligence , either at or after the time that he was himself one of the facrifices pro- pofed in the treaty with Moodajee Boofla . Yet , fingular as it is , neither in enumerating the caufes which induced him to ...
... received no manner of intelligence , either at or after the time that he was himself one of the facrifices pro- pofed in the treaty with Moodajee Boofla . Yet , fingular as it is , neither in enumerating the caufes which induced him to ...
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... received him in his camp . This , with fome other inftances of duplicity , rendered the gene- ral exceedingly alert in endea- vouring to bring Sindia to action ; but he found him fo watchfully upon his guard , that furprize was ...
... received him in his camp . This , with fome other inftances of duplicity , rendered the gene- ral exceedingly alert in endea- vouring to bring Sindia to action ; but he found him fo watchfully upon his guard , that furprize was ...
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... received from Mr. Farmer , one of the gentle- men who was left an hoftage at Worgaum , and was now in the enemy's camp , informing him of the friendly profeffions made by both thofe chiefs , and of their wish to be on amicable terms ...
... received from Mr. Farmer , one of the gentle- men who was left an hoftage at Worgaum , and was now in the enemy's camp , informing him of the friendly profeffions made by both thofe chiefs , and of their wish to be on amicable terms ...
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... received with great honour by the Nizam , who affured him of his determination to live upon terms of the most perfect friendship with the Com- pany , and to adhere inviolably to the treaties between them ; that he had ever religioufly ...
... received with great honour by the Nizam , who affured him of his determination to live upon terms of the most perfect friendship with the Com- pany , and to adhere inviolably to the treaties between them ; that he had ever religioufly ...
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Page 322 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those...
Page 322 - Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. 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 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 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
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 208 - 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 323 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; -thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Page 205 - 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 205 - ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Page 205 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.