Annual Register, Band 32Edmund Burke 1793 |
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... court , the nobles , and the clergy , feemed as if they had been involved in a general ftupor , without action , feeling , or life . Not a fingle writer of ability or eminence was engaged to refute the doctrines which were thus af ...
... court , the nobles , and the clergy , feemed as if they had been involved in a general ftupor , without action , feeling , or life . Not a fingle writer of ability or eminence was engaged to refute the doctrines which were thus af ...
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... court rolls , and all records of paft tranfactions , deftroyed by fire . Happy were thofe , who even in this ftate , plundered of every thing , could efcape half naked from the flames , without perfonal injury . But in too many ...
... court rolls , and all records of paft tranfactions , deftroyed by fire . Happy were thofe , who even in this ftate , plundered of every thing , could efcape half naked from the flames , without perfonal injury . But in too many ...
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... court papers , records , and public archives being carefully de- ftroyed , to the future diftrefs and ruin of numberless families in the furrounding country , as well as in that city . In a few places , the gentlemen and other land ...
... court papers , records , and public archives being carefully de- ftroyed , to the future diftrefs and ruin of numberless families in the furrounding country , as well as in that city . In a few places , the gentlemen and other land ...
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... court of Rome , and all fees or taxes here- tofore paid to it for ever abolished . In a word , every thing changed its ancient form and afpect . It was obferved , by men of fhrewd obfervation , that however brilliant the generous ...
... court of Rome , and all fees or taxes here- tofore paid to it for ever abolished . In a word , every thing changed its ancient form and afpect . It was obferved , by men of fhrewd obfervation , that however brilliant the generous ...
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... court and affembly , the king ventured upon the appoint- ment of a new miniftry . The great feal was given to the archbishop of Bourdeaux ; the nomination of bene- fices to the archbishop of Vienne ; the war department was committed to ...
... court and affembly , the king ventured upon the appoint- ment of a new miniftry . The great feal was given to the archbishop of Bourdeaux ; the nomination of bene- fices to the archbishop of Vienne ; the war department was committed to ...
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Seite 209 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 128 - Let her see him injured, but not provoked: Let her attend him to the tribunal, and consider the patience with which he endured the scoffs and reproaches of his enemies. Lead her to his cross, and let her view him in the agony of death, and hear his last prayer for his persecutors...
Seite 127 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
Seite 22 - ... baggage he never took; then, mounting one of his hunters, his next attention was to get out of London, into that road where turnpikes were the fewest. Then, stopping under any hedge where grass presented itself for his horse, and a little water...
Seite 99 - Nay, madam, he is a doctor; never rack his person, but rack his style: let him have pen, ink, and paper, and help of books, and be enjoined to continue the story where it breaketh off, and I will undertake, by collating the styles, to judge whether he were the author or no...
Seite 26 - Forest ; and an old man and woman, his tenants, •were the only persons with whom he could hold any converse. Here he fell ill ; and as he would have no...
Seite 129 - ... and supplications to God. Carry her to His table to view His poor fare, and hear His heavenly discourse.