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... , which can scarcely be carried on with probability of success , without the assistance of such a fleet , as can maintain a superiority on the Black a Sea . Sea . The rebellion in the Crimea , and apprehensions 2 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1773 .
... , which can scarcely be carried on with probability of success , without the assistance of such a fleet , as can maintain a superiority on the Black a Sea . Sea . The rebellion in the Crimea , and apprehensions 2 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1773 .
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... carried off for the supply of the armies . For this purpose , notwithstanding the great improvements in knowledge and science which have taken place in Russia , it was not yet thought too late , to raise a new Demetrius from the dead ...
... carried off for the supply of the armies . For this purpose , notwithstanding the great improvements in knowledge and science which have taken place in Russia , it was not yet thought too late , to raise a new Demetrius from the dead ...
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... carried on at Bucharest for a peace , were as fruitless in the issue , as the congress at Foczani had been be- fore . It seems probable that this event was equally foreseen and intended by each of the contend- ing parties ; and that ...
... carried on at Bucharest for a peace , were as fruitless in the issue , as the congress at Foczani had been be- fore . It seems probable that this event was equally foreseen and intended by each of the contend- ing parties ; and that ...
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... carried on in Bulgaria for above six weeks . We are more in the dark as to the particulars of this latter campaign , than we are even as to those of the former ; in many instances , the accounts of both that have been published , bear ...
... carried on in Bulgaria for above six weeks . We are more in the dark as to the particulars of this latter campaign , than we are even as to those of the former ; in many instances , the accounts of both that have been published , bear ...
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... carrying on the war by detachments , and wasting the enemy by a continued repeti- tion of small actions , while he cautiously superintended the whole , and kept his principal force entire . The siege of Silistria was carried on for ...
... carrying on the war by detachments , and wasting the enemy by a continued repeti- tion of small actions , while he cautiously superintended the whole , and kept his principal force entire . The siege of Silistria was carried on for ...
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Seite 244 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood...
Seite 152 - They were not of the nature of private letters between friends. They were written by public officers to persons in public stations, on public affairs, and intended to procure public measures; they were therefore handed to other public persons, who might be influenced by them to produce those measures.
Seite 106 - That all acquisitions, made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign Princes, do of right belong to the state; 2.
Seite 147 - I know (says he) a merchantman (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price : a shame it is to be spoken!
Seite 147 - Yea, what may bring our realm to more shame, and rebuke, than to have it noised abroad, that we are despisers of learning. I shall judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people, under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age ; this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities.
Seite 196 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Seite 227 - The scattered gleanings of a feast My frugal meals supply; But if thine unrelenting heart That slender boon deny, — The cheerful light, the vital air. Are blessings widely given; Let Nature's commoners enjoy The common gifts of Heaven. The well-taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.
Seite 227 - ... a pensive prisoner's prayer, For liberty that sighs ; And never let thine heart be shut Against the wretch's cries ! For here forlorn and sad I sit, Within the wiry grate ; And tremble at the approaching morn, Which brings impending fate.
Seite 111 - An Act to prevent paper bills of credit hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's colonies or plantations in America from being declared to be a legal tender in payments of money, and to prevent the legal tender of such bills as are now subsisting from being prolonged beyond the periods limited for calling in and sinking the same.
Seite 152 - ... might be influenced by them to produce those measures. Their tendency was to incense the mother country against her colonies, and, by the steps recommended, to widen the breach ; which they effected. The chief caution expressed with regard to privacy was, to keep their contents from the colony agents, who, the writers apprehended, might return them, or copies of them, to America. That apprehension was, it seems, well founded ; for the first agent who laid his hands on them, thought it his duty*...