Annual Register, Volume 24Edmund Burke 1800 |
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... gun fhip ; and from the quantity of unconfumed materials and combustibles which were found in that and others , it was evident , that much labour and expence were bestowed upon their fitting out and equipment . Too much praife cannot be ...
... gun fhip ; and from the quantity of unconfumed materials and combustibles which were found in that and others , it was evident , that much labour and expence were bestowed upon their fitting out and equipment . Too much praife cannot be ...
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... gun- boats , of a conftruction calculated to carry very heavy cannon and mortars , for the purpofe of can- nonading and bombarding the town and works in the night ; whilft their own lownefs , with the difficulty of perceiving , as well ...
... gun- boats , of a conftruction calculated to carry very heavy cannon and mortars , for the purpofe of can- nonading and bombarding the town and works in the night ; whilft their own lownefs , with the difficulty of perceiving , as well ...
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... gun carriages ; where they fat in con- tinual opprehenfion of being crush- ed to pieces , fo terribly were the cannon moved by the storm . The other houfes of the town being much earlier destroyed , the furviving inhabitants were of ...
... gun carriages ; where they fat in con- tinual opprehenfion of being crush- ed to pieces , fo terribly were the cannon moved by the storm . The other houfes of the town being much earlier destroyed , the furviving inhabitants were of ...
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... guns , and 1200 men ; two others were feventy - fours ; and four , carried 64 guns each . He likewife convoyed a fleet of tran- fports , with five old French re- giments , and a battalion of ar- tillery , amounting in the whole to about ...
... guns , and 1200 men ; two others were feventy - fours ; and four , carried 64 guns each . He likewife convoyed a fleet of tran- fports , with five old French re- giments , and a battalion of ar- tillery , amounting in the whole to about ...
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... faces which they attacked ; and two of the garrison guns being difmounted , they at fun - fet hung out a white flag . The capitula- lic utility , and the importance of the object , S tion 24 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1781 ,
... faces which they attacked ; and two of the garrison guns being difmounted , they at fun - fet hung out a white flag . The capitula- lic utility , and the importance of the object , S tion 24 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1781 ,
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Page 64 - ... 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 327 - Calcutta, it fometimes occafions an inftantaneous rife of five feet : and both here, and in every other part of its track, the boats, on its approach, immediately quit the more, and make for fafety to the middle of the river.
Page 322 - As a ftrong preemptive proof of the wandering of the Ganges from the one fide of the Delta to the other, I muft obferve, that there is no appearance of virgin earth between the Tiperah hills on the...
Page 263 - Hands no more than is necefl'ary to anfwer the current Payments and Expences of the Office. It appears to be cuftomary for the Receiver of the Firft Fruits, to detain in his Hands the Produce of the whole Year, until Eight or Nine Months after that Year is ended, befides receiving the current Produce of thofe Months ; and for the Receiver of the Tenths to detain in his Hands, for at...
Page 289 - Henry, Earle of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyal, betweene whom I finde very litle difference, I repute them (as before) for the two chief lanternes of light to all others that have since employed their pennes upon English poesie. Their conceits were loftie, their stiles stately, their conveyance cleanely, their termes proper, their meetre sweete and well proportioned, in all imitating very naturally and studiously their Maister Francis Petrarcha.
Page 243 - ... trade and navigation, the high contracting powers have antecedently agreed, and do engage to give to all other neutral powers, free leave to accede to the present treaty, and, after a thorough knowledge of the principles on which it rests, share equally in the obligations and advantages thereof.
Page 139 - Ihould produce in fuppoirt of the charge, and that he had agreed, that the papers offered by the accufer could not be admitted ; and the faid court having in another part of the faid trial...
Page 171 - ... and other warlike weapons, as well offensive as defensive, being then and there unlawfully, maliciously and traitorously assembled and gathered together...
Page 273 - Coming however, before us, they are, in our opinion, too important to be pafled over in filence ; we thought it our duty to point them out, that...