Annual Register, Volume 10Edmund Burke 1768 - History |
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... officers of her marine , to qualify themselves , under the eye of the profeffors in the academy , for that under- taking . 1 Such is the extent of this vaft empire , that the observations which are to be made , both on the tranfit and ...
... officers of her marine , to qualify themselves , under the eye of the profeffors in the academy , for that under- taking . 1 Such is the extent of this vaft empire , that the observations which are to be made , both on the tranfit and ...
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... officers of the civil and- military departments were obliged to take it , or lose their places . Some of the great officers of state are faid to have refigned their places , rather than take this oath ; the new Prince Primate took it ...
... officers of the civil and- military departments were obliged to take it , or lose their places . Some of the great officers of state are faid to have refigned their places , rather than take this oath ; the new Prince Primate took it ...
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... officers , who attended at all the dietines , were infulted ; however their oppofi- tion fhewed rather their difcontent than their power . It was evident that the diet was only a form ; and that the Emprefs of Ruffia was the only ...
... officers , who attended at all the dietines , were infulted ; however their oppofi- tion fhewed rather their difcontent than their power . It was evident that the diet was only a form ; and that the Emprefs of Ruffia was the only ...
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... officer of the crown , in a matter of private property , ex- cited in the highest degree the at- tention of all forts of people . Many , however , ftill fuppofed that the report was calculated only to anfwer the particular purposes of a ...
... officer of the crown , in a matter of private property , ex- cited in the highest degree the at- tention of all forts of people . Many , however , ftill fuppofed that the report was calculated only to anfwer the particular purposes of a ...
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... officers , who had acted under the proclamation , yet it paffed by the council who advised it ; and had not a preamble fully expreffive of the illegality of the measure . In these refpects the bill was amended , and made perfect . But ...
... officers , who had acted under the proclamation , yet it paffed by the council who advised it ; and had not a preamble fully expreffive of the illegality of the measure . In these refpects the bill was amended , and made perfect . But ...
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Page 217 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Page 264 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 264 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 132 - Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Page 261 - ... strictly speaking) there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land...
Page 276 - ... openly and humbly kneeling, being ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands both together between those of the lord, who...
Page 274 - that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services.
Page 71 - His Majefty went to the Houfe of Peers, and gave the royal aflent to the following bills, viz. The bill for puniihing mutiny and defertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.
Page 261 - ... from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him ; or why the occupier of a particular field or of a jewel, when lying on his death-bed, and no longer able to maintain possession, should be entitled to tell the rest of the world which of them should enjoy it after him.
Page 265 - ... by giving it opportunities of improving its rational faculties, as well as of exerting its natural.