The Annual Register, Band 121Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1880 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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Seite 352 - THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India, and Founder of Buddhism (as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist). By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI , &c.
Seite 242 - Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of the undermentioned officers to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, viz.
Seite 335 - These short Books are addressed to the general public, with a view both to stirring and satisfying an interest in literature and its great topics in the minds of those who have to run as they read.
Seite 228 - Roebuck gave notice that he would move for a select committee to inquire into the condition of the army before Sebastopol, and into the conduct of those departments of the Government whose duty it had been to minister to the wants of the army.
Seite 11 - Zululand appears to them to justify a confident hope that by the exercise of prudence, and by meeting the Zulus in a spirit of forbearance and...
Seite 288 - There is no duty which so much embarrasses the Executive and heads of Departments as that of appointments ; nor is there any such arduous and thankless labor imposed on Senators and Representatives as that of finding places for constituents. The present system does not secure the best men, and often not even fit men, for public place. The elevation and purification of the civil service of the Government will be hailed with approval by the whole people of the United States.
Seite 355 - A boy threw stones : he picked them up and stored them in his vest; So tottered, muttered, mumbled he, till he died, perhaps found rest. " Is there a reason in nature for these hard hearts ? " O Lear, That a reason out of nature must turn them soft, seems clear ! IVAN IVANOVITCH.
Seite 6 - Umpandi, and they have kept playing with me all this time, treating me as a child ? Go back and tell the English that I shall now act on my own account, and if they wish me to agree to their laws, I shall leave and become a wanderer ; but before I go it will be seen, as I shall not go without having acted. " Go back and tell the white men this, and let them hear it well. The Governor of Natal and I are equal ; he is Governor of Natal, and I am Governor here.
Seite 236 - Seal granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Alexander Taylor, Esq., Doctor of Medicine.
Seite 173 - ... practice to become private secretary to Sir FT Baring, while Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1839-41. Returning to Oxford, he took in hand, with very great advantage, the management of the collegiate estates, and in 1857 was elected Professor of Political Economy, and lectured on trades' unions, the currency, and the land laws. In the same year he was returned as one of the members for the city of Oxford in the Liberal interest, but was unseated on petition. He regained his seat in 1863, and retained...