The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volumen 12Walter Scott John Ballantyne and Company, 1823 |
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... asked for purposes not fully explained . There was , for in- stance , the sum of L. 50,000 which was said to be for the Windsor esta- blishment : now that was the very thing he wished to have explained . His Majesty , it was too well ...
... asked for purposes not fully explained . There was , for in- stance , the sum of L. 50,000 which was said to be for the Windsor esta- blishment : now that was the very thing he wished to have explained . His Majesty , it was too well ...
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... asked for precedents , and the Noble Lord stated the several precedents quite correctly . He objected to extend- ing pensions or allowances beyond servants in menial offices . He was told that he was quite in error upon that point , and ...
... asked for precedents , and the Noble Lord stated the several precedents quite correctly . He objected to extend- ing pensions or allowances beyond servants in menial offices . He was told that he was quite in error upon that point , and ...
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... asked , to be called on , in the present state of the country , to add to the burdens of the people in order to secure a large sum to the successor to the throne ? Did the house recollect that the privy purse of his Majesty was not the ...
... asked , to be called on , in the present state of the country , to add to the burdens of the people in order to secure a large sum to the successor to the throne ? Did the house recollect that the privy purse of his Majesty was not the ...
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... asked for was , that the same sanctity should be observed respecting it , as would be shown to the meanest subject , whose rights were secured by an act of Parliament . It was nothing to him to be told that the King was in firm , and ...
... asked for was , that the same sanctity should be observed respecting it , as would be shown to the meanest subject , whose rights were secured by an act of Parliament . It was nothing to him to be told that the King was in firm , and ...
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... asked , ma- king together L. 54,000 , which ex- ceeded the estimate by nearly L.20,000 . The expences for repair- ing the wharf wall at Woolwich had been estimated at L. 39,000 . The expences required last year had been stated as ...
... asked , ma- king together L. 54,000 , which ex- ceeded the estimate by nearly L.20,000 . The expences for repair- ing the wharf wall at Woolwich had been estimated at L. 39,000 . The expences required last year had been stated as ...
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Página 329 - Independently of his great attainments in mechanics, Mr. Watt was an extraordinary, and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well.
Página 330 - ... the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured. But it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.
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