Annual Register, Volum 55Edmund Burke 1823 |
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Side xi
... British Force on Lake Erie Captured . - General Proctor's Defeat . - Actions on Lake Ontario . Invasion of Lower Canada by Hampton repulsed . - Wilkinson's Advance by the River St. Lawrence frustrated , and a Corps of his Army Defeated ...
... British Force on Lake Erie Captured . - General Proctor's Defeat . - Actions on Lake Ontario . Invasion of Lower Canada by Hampton repulsed . - Wilkinson's Advance by the River St. Lawrence frustrated , and a Corps of his Army Defeated ...
Side 2
... British public ; and which has on various occasions united in op- position to it those who have dif- fered the most widely from one another . As a part of parliamen- tary history , it will suffice at pre- sent to have noticed the period ...
... British public ; and which has on various occasions united in op- position to it those who have dif- fered the most widely from one another . As a part of parliamen- tary history , it will suffice at pre- sent to have noticed the period ...
Side 3
... British service in January 1811 , the whole number claiming to be American subjects was 3,500 ; and as it had been found that of the individuals advancing such claim , only about one in four could make it good upon exami- nation , the ...
... British service in January 1811 , the whole number claiming to be American subjects was 3,500 ; and as it had been found that of the individuals advancing such claim , only about one in four could make it good upon exami- nation , the ...
Side 5
... British seamen in the service of America ; which he men . tioned , to show that it was even more for our interest than for that of America , to court negociation on this point . He observed , that though there might be only 1,600 ...
... British seamen in the service of America ; which he men . tioned , to show that it was even more for our interest than for that of America , to court negociation on this point . He observed , that though there might be only 1,600 ...
Side 6
... British Squadron on Lake Erie ; action of Sir J. Yeo From the same- -Action at the Chateauguay From Lord Wellington . - Crossing the Bidassoa From Capt . Hoste . - Action in the Bocco di Cattaro From Sir Charles Cole . - Capture of the ...
... British Squadron on Lake Erie ; action of Sir J. Yeo From the same- -Action at the Chateauguay From Lord Wellington . - Crossing the Bidassoa From Capt . Hoste . - Action in the Bocco di Cattaro From Sir Charles Cole . - Capture of the ...
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Side 498 - These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They too will rather die than shame: For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won.
Side 498 - Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave, O servile offspring of the free ! — Pronounce what sea, what shore is this ? The gulf, the rock of Salamis ! These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own...
Side 8 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Side 498 - Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native land ! There points thy Muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die...
Side 413 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Side 7 - Ireland ; with a view to such a final and conciliating adjustment as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the United Kingdom ; to the stability of the Protestant Establishment ; and to the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of His Majesty's subjects.
Side 362 - Happily no people, with local and transitory exceptions never to be wholly avoided, are more able than the people of the United States to spare for the public wants a portion of their private means, whether regard be had...
Side 87 - Sir, — I have the pleasure to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at nine o'clock this morning I got sight of the Dutch fleet.
Side 208 - An Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further term the possession of the British territories in India...