The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 24J. Dodsley, 1800 |
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Page 212
... Say and Sele , and LL.D. His father the Rev. Rich . Fienes , married Penelope , daughter of Geo . Chamberlain , of Warding- ton , in Oxfordih . Efq ; by whom he had iffue ( befides the late vifc . ) Sufanna , who died unmarried ; Vere ...
... Say and Sele , and LL.D. His father the Rev. Rich . Fienes , married Penelope , daughter of Geo . Chamberlain , of Warding- ton , in Oxfordih . Efq ; by whom he had iffue ( befides the late vifc . ) Sufanna , who died unmarried ; Vere ...
Page 275
... say , On L. 12,000,000 to be raised by annuities . £ 10 per cent . on or before the 27th day of April next £ . 10 per cent . on or before the 18th day of May next £ 10 per cent . on or before the 14th day of June next £ 10 per cent . on ...
... say , On L. 12,000,000 to be raised by annuities . £ 10 per cent . on or before the 27th day of April next £ . 10 per cent . on or before the 18th day of May next £ 10 per cent . on or before the 14th day of June next £ 10 per cent . on ...
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... say : that it was with the utmoft concern and aftonishment , we have already , not only received your excellencies af- flicting order and fentence , to give up the keys of our stores with an inventory thereof , and of our household ...
... say : that it was with the utmoft concern and aftonishment , we have already , not only received your excellencies af- flicting order and fentence , to give up the keys of our stores with an inventory thereof , and of our household ...
Page 334
... say that this indivi- dual fum , received in one month , and paid away in the next , was more than the fervice required hould be in the hands of the trea- furer of the navy upon the 31st of Auguft laft . But it was neceffary to extend ...
... say that this indivi- dual fum , received in one month , and paid away in the next , was more than the fervice required hould be in the hands of the trea- furer of the navy upon the 31st of Auguft laft . But it was neceffary to extend ...
Page 176
... Say doth thy Lord my Claribel with - hold ? " Go tell him ftraight , Sir Knight , thou must refign " Thy captive Queen - for Claribel is mine . " Away he flies and now for bloody deeds , Black fuits of armour , mäsks , and foaming ...
... Say doth thy Lord my Claribel with - hold ? " Go tell him ftraight , Sir Knight , thou must refign " Thy captive Queen - for Claribel is mine . " Away he flies and now for bloody deeds , Black fuits of armour , mäsks , and foaming ...
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Page 142 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the- lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
Page 183 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 326 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 273 - March, 1767, upon lands, tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and that a proportionable cefs, according to the ninth article of the treaty of union, be laid upon that part of Great Britain called Scot, wnd, 1,528,568!.
Page 2 - Constantine we may contemplate a hero, who had so long inspired his subjects with love and his enemies with terror, degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch, corrupted by his fortune, or raised by conquest above the necessity of dissimulation.
Page 202 - Unless sometime some crumbs fell to his share, Which in his wallet long, God wot, kept he, As on the which full daint'ly would he fare; His drink, the running stream, his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground: To this poor life was Misery ybound.
Page 215 - Venice, returned early in 1715, and was appointed one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to the prince of Wales. In the first parliament of this reign he was elected for the borough of St.
Page 172 - Gilds her accomplifh'd work the female frame, With rich luxuriance tender, fweetly wild, And juft between the woman and the child.
Page 202 - Devising means how she may vengeance take, Never in rest, till she have her desire : But frets within so far forth with the fire Of wreaking flames, that now determines she To die by death, or veng'd by death to be.
Page 164 - You cannot bar my conftant feet to " trace " The woods and lawns, by living ftream, " at eve^ " Let health my nerves and finer fibres "•brace, «' And I their toys to the great children " leave : " Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can