Annual Register, Volum 55Edmund Burke 1823 |
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Side 29
... officers to a larger share of the honours of their profession , which he would extend to all ranks of command , except the very highest at home . He would likewise give the Roman Catholic soldier a legal right to his own religious ...
... officers to a larger share of the honours of their profession , which he would extend to all ranks of command , except the very highest at home . He would likewise give the Roman Catholic soldier a legal right to his own religious ...
Side 40
... officers agreed in the opinion that it was not proper to multiply the classes of vessels ; and it was far better to send out 74's than to set about building ships only fit to cope with the American navy . The advice to diminish the num ...
... officers agreed in the opinion that it was not proper to multiply the classes of vessels ; and it was far better to send out 74's than to set about building ships only fit to cope with the American navy . The advice to diminish the num ...
Side 93
... defiance of all discipline , officers and pri- vates were to meet on terms of equality . The expenses of the so- ciety were also provided for ; their organization was announced in the public papers , especially in GENERAL HISTORY . [ 93.
... defiance of all discipline , officers and pri- vates were to meet on terms of equality . The expenses of the so- ciety were also provided for ; their organization was announced in the public papers , especially in GENERAL HISTORY . [ 93.
Side 106
... officers whether , in their disabled condition , with great part of the crew killed or wounded , it would be justifiable to waste more lives in continuing a fruitless defence . The result was , that they agreed in the painful necessity ...
... officers whether , in their disabled condition , with great part of the crew killed or wounded , it would be justifiable to waste more lives in continuing a fruitless defence . The result was , that they agreed in the painful necessity ...
Side 110
... officers . Capt . Laurence died of his wounds at Halifax , where he was honourably interred . The humiliated feelings of the numerous spectators on shore , who , instead of a new tri- umph , saw their gallant ship in so short a time led ...
... officers . Capt . Laurence died of his wounds at Halifax , where he was honourably interred . The humiliated feelings of the numerous spectators on shore , who , instead of a new tri- umph , saw their gallant ship in so short a time led ...
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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...