Annual Register, Volum 10Edmund Burke 1768 |
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Side 24
... served continued only for a few minutes : upon the whole he shew- ed a coolness and command of temper , which has perhaps been seldom seen in such circumstances , but which was very convenient , where resistance was impossible . It ...
... served continued only for a few minutes : upon the whole he shew- ed a coolness and command of temper , which has perhaps been seldom seen in such circumstances , but which was very convenient , where resistance was impossible . It ...
Side 26
... served to inflame others . Many people blamed the noble prisoners for the virulent and unguarded ex- pressions they had made use of , in speaking of fome of the great pow ers who had interested themselves in favour of the Diffidents ...
... served to inflame others . Many people blamed the noble prisoners for the virulent and unguarded ex- pressions they had made use of , in speaking of fome of the great pow ers who had interested themselves in favour of the Diffidents ...
Side 38
... served to direct his activity to another sphere . He had for some time past taken great pains to form fomething like a marine force ; he now attended to it with greater diligence , and was so succefsful as greatly to incommode the Ge ...
... served to direct his activity to another sphere . He had for some time past taken great pains to form fomething like a marine force ; he now attended to it with greater diligence , and was so succefsful as greatly to incommode the Ge ...
Side 42
... served that it was no way appli- cable to the present cafe : that the high rate of that stock was built upon an imaginary basis , which had no real existence ; so that its success depended entirely upon the passions and covetousness of ...
... served that it was no way appli- cable to the present cafe : that the high rate of that stock was built upon an imaginary basis , which had no real existence ; so that its success depended entirely upon the passions and covetousness of ...
Side 48
... served , that a legislative interpofi- tion controuling the dividend of a trading company , which had been legally voted and declared by those to whom the power of doing it was intrusted , and to whom there was no ground to impute an ...
... served , that a legislative interpofi- tion controuling the dividend of a trading company , which had been legally voted and declared by those to whom the power of doing it was intrusted , and to whom there was no ground to impute an ...
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Side 231 - 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.
Side 278 - 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.
Side 278 - 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.
Side 144 - Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Side 275 - ... 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...
Side 288 - ... openly and humbly kneeling, being ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands both together between those of the lord, who...
Side 286 - 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.
Side 83 - 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.
Side 275 - ... 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.
Side 279 - ... by giving it opportunities of improving its rational faculties, as well as of exerting its natural.