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... navy . In thefe writings the peo- ple were invited to form themselves into clubs and focieties , after the manner of the French ; and many were actually formed in a great num- ber of the most populous towns of the kingdom , avowedly ...
... navy . In thefe writings the peo- ple were invited to form themselves into clubs and focieties , after the manner of the French ; and many were actually formed in a great num- ber of the most populous towns of the kingdom , avowedly ...
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... navy . He did not like that the speaker of that houfe fhould be under the neceflity of looking for the favours of the crown , and , there- fore , he wished the house itself to make an adequate provifion for him . He related the ...
... navy . He did not like that the speaker of that houfe fhould be under the neceflity of looking for the favours of the crown , and , there- fore , he wished the house itself to make an adequate provifion for him . He related the ...
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... navy , arifing from large pur- chafes of timber , and other flores ; the extraordinaries of the army , owing to the unliquidated demands at the end of the war ; the expence of the armament in 1787 , the charge which the generofity of ...
... navy , arifing from large pur- chafes of timber , and other flores ; the extraordinaries of the army , owing to the unliquidated demands at the end of the war ; the expence of the armament in 1787 , the charge which the generofity of ...
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... navy debt , and one quarter's revenue antici- pated , which was every fhilling debt incurred , as much as if it had been actually borrowed , making in all 3,500,000l . The average income of four years , including the last year , would ...
... navy debt , and one quarter's revenue antici- pated , which was every fhilling debt incurred , as much as if it had been actually borrowed , making in all 3,500,000l . The average income of four years , including the last year , would ...
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... navy with ftores , provifions , & c .; for fuch as fuffered by the cef- fion of Florida ; and for fuch as fuf- fered by loffes of income arifing from offices . On the 14th , the chancellor of the exchequer called the attention of the ...
... navy with ftores , provifions , & c .; for fuch as fuffered by the cef- fion of Florida ; and for fuch as fuf- fered by loffes of income arifing from offices . On the 14th , the chancellor of the exchequer called the attention of the ...
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Seite 201 - 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. But the work shall not be lost For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new and more elegant edition Revised and corrected by The Author.* * The foregoing epitaph was written by Dr.
Seite 164 - Abyssinia is clear and the sun shines; about nine, a small cloud, not above four feet broad, appears in the East, whirling violently round as if upon an axis; but arrived near the zenith, it...
Seite 10 - To see him setting out on a journey, was a matter truly curious: his first care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into his great-coat pocket, or any scraps of bread which he found; 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.
Seite 277 - Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubje&s the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament aflembled, beg leave to return Your Majefty our humble thanks, for your moft gracious fpeech from the Throne.
Seite 165 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Seite 14 - 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 85 - Queen could not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author, and said with great indignation, that she would have him racked to produce his author, I replied : ' Nay, Madam, he is a doctor ; never rack his person, but rack his...
Seite 160 - ... from his bones, they do not meddle with the thighs, or the parts where the great arteries are. At...
Seite 31 - I was placed in, by living in a native family, I had an opportunity of feeing more of the nature and difpofition of the middling- fort of people, and their manners and cuftoms, than perhaps has fallen to the lot of moft travellers, I am induced to give the few obfervations I made during that period. The Perfians, with refpeft to outward behaviour, are certainly the Parifians of the Eaffl.
Seite 42 - ... as the mother, keeping up her prerogative, never parts with the power over any portion of...