Annual Register, Band 27Edmund Burke 1787 |
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... against Algiers .. Earthquakes in Calabria and Sicily , 1. * THE HE diforders of the Ottoman empire were too numerous and inveterate , to admit of any effec- tial remedy , within the few years of uncertain peace that had elapfed fince ...
... against Algiers .. Earthquakes in Calabria and Sicily , 1. * THE HE diforders of the Ottoman empire were too numerous and inveterate , to admit of any effec- tial remedy , within the few years of uncertain peace that had elapfed fince ...
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... against her return . The peace was fuch as was to be expected from the circumftances on both fides ; and feemed to be found ed on the principles we have flated . It fowed such numberlets feeds of contention , that the fucceffion of the ...
... against her return . The peace was fuch as was to be expected from the circumftances on both fides ; and feemed to be found ed on the principles we have flated . It fowed such numberlets feeds of contention , that the fucceffion of the ...
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... had greatly checked the operation of the Ruffian armies , who were much more intent on guarding against the approaches of that fall enemy , than on on gratifying ambition at the ex- pence of any other HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 31.
... had greatly checked the operation of the Ruffian armies , who were much more intent on guarding against the approaches of that fall enemy , than on on gratifying ambition at the ex- pence of any other HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 31.
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... against him at the head of 18,000 men ; and , though the Georgians were superior in num- ber , obliged them to retire with precipitation to their own country , This , though not a great matter , if time , diftance , and circumftances ...
... against him at the head of 18,000 men ; and , though the Georgians were superior in num- ber , obliged them to retire with precipitation to their own country , This , though not a great matter , if time , diftance , and circumftances ...
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... against Algiers in the year 1775 , were fuficient to deter her from another attack upon that piratical city . Her fhips being in fome degree ftill manned in con- fequence of the late war , and a great number of bomb - ketches , gun ...
... against Algiers in the year 1775 , were fuficient to deter her from another attack upon that piratical city . Her fhips being in fome degree ftill manned in con- fequence of the late war , and a great number of bomb - ketches , gun ...
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Seite 186 - But on this grand point of the restoration of the country, there is not one syllable to be found in the correspondence of our ministers, from the...
Seite 15 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Seite 56 - because they had acted in a manner repugnant to the honour and policy of this nation, and thereby brought great calamities on India, and enormous expenses on the East India company*" Here was no attempt on the charter.
Seite 16 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Seite 183 - It is therefore not from treasuries and mines, but from the food of your unpaid armies, from the blood withheld from the veins, and whipt out of the backs of the most miserable of men, that we are to pamper extortion, usury, and peculation, under the false names of debtors and creditors of state.
Seite 186 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...
Seite 115 - If a white man in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I treat you; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Seite 115 - This made it clear to me that my suspicion was right, and that whatever they pretended of meeting to learn good things, the real purpose was to consult how to cheat Indians in the price of beaver.
Seite 284 - The Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a farmer.