The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Band 27J. Dodsley, 1800 |
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... less than paying a thameful and ignominious tribute for protection and defence ; and that it would be in the laft degree perfonally fhame- ful and degrading to himfelf , if now , when the occafion fo oppor- tunely offered , he fhould ...
... less than paying a thameful and ignominious tribute for protection and defence ; and that it would be in the laft degree perfonally fhame- ful and degrading to himfelf , if now , when the occafion fo oppor- tunely offered , he fhould ...
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... less aftonishing than his affability was captivating to the people . It did not efcape obfervation , ei- ther in Holland or Flanders , that when this prince was at Antwerp , he went down the Schelde in a boat , as far as to the first of ...
... less aftonishing than his affability was captivating to the people . It did not efcape obfervation , ei- ther in Holland or Flanders , that when this prince was at Antwerp , he went down the Schelde in a boat , as far as to the first of ...
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... less dangerous to the rest of Europe.- The near approach of the emperor , at this time , to England , along with the particular favour which he fhewed to the English , induced the warm partizans of this notion to imagine , that it was ...
... less dangerous to the rest of Europe.- The near approach of the emperor , at this time , to England , along with the particular favour which he fhewed to the English , induced the warm partizans of this notion to imagine , that it was ...
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... less di- rected to the only other maritime nook and extremity of his domini- ons , which lies fequeftered in the bottom of the Adriatic . The ancient city of Triefte , after having been , for feveral hundred years , a neft of pirates ...
... less di- rected to the only other maritime nook and extremity of his domini- ons , which lies fequeftered in the bottom of the Adriatic . The ancient city of Triefte , after having been , for feveral hundred years , a neft of pirates ...
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... less agitated by the pacific conduct of the court , than by the con- templation of their ruined city . Emperor openly avows his determination of sup- porting the claims of Ruffia , as well as his own . Strong memorials prefenied , and ...
... less agitated by the pacific conduct of the court , than by the con- templation of their ruined city . Emperor openly avows his determination of sup- porting the claims of Ruffia , as well as his own . Strong memorials prefenied , and ...
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Seite 118 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
Seite 17 - 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 115 - The business of the women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their memories, for they have no writing, and communicate it to their children. They are the records of the council, and they preserve...
Seite 17 - His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency. His countenance was naturally of the cast of an ancient statue, but somewhat disfigured by the scars of that evil, which, it was formerly imagined, the royal touch could cure.
Seite 362 - British colonies or plantations ; or on the exportation of any article imported from the British plantations, or any manufacture made of such article, unless in cases where a similar bounty is payable in Great Britain, on exportation from thence, or where such bounty is merely in the nature of a drawback, or compensation of, or for duties paid, over and above any paid thereon in Britain.
Seite 11 - His judgment, in whatever related to the services he was engaged in, quick and sure. His designs were bold and manly ; and both in the conception, and in the mode of execution, bore evident marks of a great original genius. His courage was cool and determined, and accompanied with an admirable presence of mind in the moment of danger. His manners were plain and unaffected.
Seite 186 - Nero, in all the insolent prodigality of despotism, deal out to his praetorian guards a donation fit to be named with the largess showered down by the bounty of our Chancellor of the Exchequer on the faithful band of his Indian sepoys.
Seite 116 - What you have told us, says he, is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat Apples. It is better to make them all into Cyder.
Seite 11 - ... abated. No incidental temptation could detain him for a moment; even those intervals of recreation, which sometimes unavoidably occurred, and were looked for by us with a longing, that persons who have experienced the fatigues of service will readily excuse, were submitted to by him with a certain impatience, whenever they could not be employed in making further provision for the more effectual prosecution of his designs.
Seite 117 - It is reckoned uncivil in travelling strangers to enter a village abruptly, without giving notice of their approach. Therefore, as soon as they arrive within hearing, they stop and halloo, remaining there till invited to enter.