The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 24J. Dodsley, 1800 |
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... against the gallies and boats ; but the darkness prevented any certain knowledge of the effect . By the remains of one of thofe veffels , which were examined in the morning , the ap- peared to have been about the fize of a fifty - gun ...
... against the gallies and boats ; but the darkness prevented any certain knowledge of the effect . By the remains of one of thofe veffels , which were examined in the morning , the ap- peared to have been about the fize of a fifty - gun ...
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... against intru- fions . Whoever , in the prefent inftance , they should choose out of their own body , would be accept- able to him ; and if they made no choice , it would be equally agree- able ; as the moderate age and good health of ...
... against intru- fions . Whoever , in the prefent inftance , they should choose out of their own body , would be accept- able to him ; and if they made no choice , it would be equally agree- able ; as the moderate age and good health of ...
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... against the fenfe and liking of the Spanish nation , who con- fidered it as a ruinous measure , founded merely upon Bourbon views and principles , yet the in- fluence of the court , and a sense of national honour , prevailed fo far ...
... against the fenfe and liking of the Spanish nation , who con- fidered it as a ruinous measure , founded merely upon Bourbon views and principles , yet the in- fluence of the court , and a sense of national honour , prevailed fo far ...
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... against their countrymen , eagerly embraced every adventure , which afforded any hope of profit , or what was perhaps ftill fweeter , of revenge . They were now grown fo numer- ous , that they were strangely per- mitted to fet up a fort ...
... against their countrymen , eagerly embraced every adventure , which afforded any hope of profit , or what was perhaps ftill fweeter , of revenge . They were now grown fo numer- ous , that they were strangely per- mitted to fet up a fort ...
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... against the Con- grefs , not lefs violent than those that he had before thrown out against the commiffioners . He was , however , foon obliged to abide the judgment of a court- martial , upon the various charges of malverfation in ...
... against the Con- grefs , not lefs violent than those that he had before thrown out against the commiffioners . He was , however , foon obliged to abide the judgment of a court- martial , upon the various charges of malverfation in ...
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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