Annual Register of World Events, Том 161803 |
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... thought , that the immense waste of treasure and blood , which has been so lavishly squandered in this pursuit , would have been much better applied to the great purposes of population and internal improvement ; and that the glare of ...
... thought , that the immense waste of treasure and blood , which has been so lavishly squandered in this pursuit , would have been much better applied to the great purposes of population and internal improvement ; and that the glare of ...
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... thought practicable , it may still be a matter not unworthy of conside- ration , how much farther it may be consistent with prudence , to irritate the resentment of those princes ; and whether any advantages now to be expected from a ...
... thought practicable , it may still be a matter not unworthy of conside- ration , how much farther it may be consistent with prudence , to irritate the resentment of those princes ; and whether any advantages now to be expected from a ...
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... thought too late , to raise a new Demetrius from the dead . A Cossack , whose name is Pugatscheff , has assumed the name and character of the late unfortunate Emperor Peter the [ 4 ] 3 Third , Third . He pretends that he made his escape ...
... thought too late , to raise a new Demetrius from the dead . A Cossack , whose name is Pugatscheff , has assumed the name and character of the late unfortunate Emperor Peter the [ 4 ] 3 Third , Third . He pretends that he made his escape ...
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... thought necessary to pluck off the adventi- tious plumage , the tide of fashion took the contrary course with equal rapidity , and seems now to proceed with an eagerness that threatens to leave only the skeleton behind . • The great ...
... thought necessary to pluck off the adventi- tious plumage , the tide of fashion took the contrary course with equal rapidity , and seems now to proceed with an eagerness that threatens to leave only the skeleton behind . • The great ...
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... thought of at the congress . It is said , that the navigation on the Black Sea was another insurmount- able obstacle to an accommodation , the Russians not only insisting on that right in its utmost extent , but also on a free liberty ...
... thought of at the congress . It is said , that the navigation on the Black Sea was another insurmount- able obstacle to an accommodation , the Russians not only insisting on that right in its utmost extent , but also on a free liberty ...
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Страница 227 - The scattered gleanings of a feast My frugal meals supply; But if thine unrelenting heart That slender boon deny, — The cheerful light, the vital air. Are blessings widely given; Let Nature's commoners enjoy The common gifts of Heaven. The well-taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.
Страница 227 - ... a pensive prisoner's prayer, For liberty that sighs ; And never let thine heart be shut Against the wretch's cries ! For here forlorn and sad I sit, Within the wiry grate ; And tremble at the approaching morn, Which brings impending fate.
Страница 111 - An Act to prevent paper bills of credit hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's colonies or plantations in America from being declared to be a legal tender in payments of money, and to prevent the legal tender of such bills as are now subsisting from being prolonged beyond the periods limited for calling in and sinking the same.
Страница 152 - ... might be influenced by them to produce those measures. Their tendency was to incense the mother country against her colonies, and, by the steps recommended, to widen the breach ; which they effected. The chief caution expressed with regard to privacy was, to keep their contents from the colony agents, who, the writers apprehended, might return them, or copies of them, to America. That apprehension was, it seems, well founded ; for the first agent who laid his hands on them, thought it his duty*...