The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volumen 1Walter Scott John Ballantyne and Company, 1810 |
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... coun- terbalance his disadvantages . The materials of the Historian may . indeed be of difficult access , of dubious authority , meagre in amount , obscure in purport , and irreconcileable with each other . But there are substitutes for ...
... coun- terbalance his disadvantages . The materials of the Historian may . indeed be of difficult access , of dubious authority , meagre in amount , obscure in purport , and irreconcileable with each other . But there are substitutes for ...
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... coun- try ; and will , by their stories of what they have seen , excite the rising ge- neration to follow the same course . The crimp , and the hardly less nefa- rious practices of the recruiting ser- jeant , may thus be dispensed with ...
... coun- try ; and will , by their stories of what they have seen , excite the rising ge- neration to follow the same course . The crimp , and the hardly less nefa- rious practices of the recruiting ser- jeant , may thus be dispensed with ...
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... coun- ties , were mostly with the opposi- tion ; hence the new ministry held their seats too much by personal fa- vour , and were more literally the king's servants , than was consistent with the spirit of the constitution ; the people ...
... coun- ties , were mostly with the opposi- tion ; hence the new ministry held their seats too much by personal fa- vour , and were more literally the king's servants , than was consistent with the spirit of the constitution ; the people ...
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... coun- cil were in fact seized upon as a pre- text for new - wording and colouring a previous commercial de- cree issued at Milan a few 1807 . days after them , but be- Nov. 23 . fore they could be known . For this previous decree ...
... coun- cil were in fact seized upon as a pre- text for new - wording and colouring a previous commercial de- cree issued at Milan a few 1807 . days after them , but be- Nov. 23 . fore they could be known . For this previous decree ...
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... people of France , and of the conquered and allied coun- tries , believed in M. Cretet's predic- tions of a speedy termination or not , * This was not a little increased by the form 22 EDINBURGH ANNUAL REGISTER , 1808 .
... people of France , and of the conquered and allied coun- tries , believed in M. Cretet's predic- tions of a speedy termination or not , * This was not a little increased by the form 22 EDINBURGH ANNUAL REGISTER , 1808 .
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Página 458 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Página 143 - Controul, moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to enquire into the present state of the affairs of the East India Company.
Página xxvii - And the right honourable the lords commissioners of his majesty's treasury, his majesty's principal secretaries of state, the lords commissioners of the admiralty, and the judge of the high court of admiralty, and the judges of the courts of vice admiralty.
Página 457 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Página xviii - ... that all the ports and places of France and her allies, or of any other country at war with His Majesty, and all other ports or places in Europe, from which, although not at war with His Majesty, the British flag is excluded, and all ports or places in the colonies belonging to His Majesty's enemies, shall, from henceforth, be subject to the same restrictions in point of trade and navigation, with the exceptions hereinafter mentioned, as if the same were actually blockaded by His Majesty's naval...
Página xcvii - WP VAN NESS. NATHANIEL PENDLETON, Esq. In the evening of the same day I received from him the following answer : No. XI June 26, 1804. SIR, I have communicated the letter which you did me the honour to write to me of this date, to General Hamilton.
Página xxvii - Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of - His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: 1.
Página 438 - Spain, and we must be at hand to aid and take advantage of whatever happens. — The wishes of our country, and our. duty demand this of us, with whatever risk it may be attended. — I mean to proceed bridle in hand, for if the bubble bursts, and Madrid falls, we shall have a run for it.
Página xlii - Napoleon, by the grace of God and the constitution, emperor of the French, king of Italy, and protector of the confederation of the Rhine...
Página xvi - His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judges of the High Court of Admiralty, and the Courts of Vice Admiralty, are to take the necessary measures herein as to them shall respectively appertain.