Annual Register, Volum 9Edmund Burke 1767 |
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Pàgina 10
... letter to the regency of that town , in the fame terms which a general makes ufe of when he fummons a fortress . But when he heard that troops were in march against him , and had cut off all hopes of a communication with Stockholm , his ...
... letter to the regency of that town , in the fame terms which a general makes ufe of when he fummons a fortress . But when he heard that troops were in march against him , and had cut off all hopes of a communication with Stockholm , his ...
Pàgina 24
... letter from the coun- cil , put the Nabob under a ne- ceffity of fending his favourite to Calcutta ; at the fame time that means were found to divert him from the refolution which he had taken of attending him . There seems no reason to ...
... letter from the coun- cil , put the Nabob under a ne- ceffity of fending his favourite to Calcutta ; at the fame time that means were found to divert him from the refolution which he had taken of attending him . There seems no reason to ...
Pàgina 28
... letter of inftructions arrived , or the com- mittee was formed , they urged ftrongly from thence , that the powers under which they pre- tended to derive an authority never exifted . The committee , entirely regardless of these charges ...
... letter of inftructions arrived , or the com- mittee was formed , they urged ftrongly from thence , that the powers under which they pre- tended to derive an authority never exifted . The committee , entirely regardless of these charges ...
Pàgina 54
... letter from Baffora , Au- guft 29. 1765 . " The Schec Soliman Scha Habe , the fame whom Kerim Kan undertook lately to fubject , feized , about the end of last month , two English veffels coming from Ben- gal with rich cargoes , and a ...
... letter from Baffora , Au- guft 29. 1765 . " The Schec Soliman Scha Habe , the fame whom Kerim Kan undertook lately to fubject , feized , about the end of last month , two English veffels coming from Ben- gal with rich cargoes , and a ...
Pàgina 55
... letter from Bafora , Au- gust 29. 1765 . " The Schec Soliman Scha Habe , the fame whom Kerim Kan undertook lately to fubject , feized , about the end of last month , two English veffels coming from Ben- gal with rich cargoes , and a ...
... letter from Bafora , Au- gust 29. 1765 . " The Schec Soliman Scha Habe , the fame whom Kerim Kan undertook lately to fubject , feized , about the end of last month , two English veffels coming from Ben- gal with rich cargoes , and a ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 38 - I hold it to be true that a tax laid in any place is like a pebble falling into and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces and gives motion to another and the whole circumference is agitated from the centre.
Pàgina 157 - The misfortunes of the great are held up to engage our attention, are enlarged upon in tones of declamation, and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble sufferers...
Pàgina 178 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Pàgina 161 - ... a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life; but that was not my chance: one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God! I enjoy good health, and will for ever love liberty and Old England. Liberty, property, and Old England, for ever, huzza!
Pàgina 198 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
Pàgina 159 - I fell upon my knees, begged his worship's pardon, and began to give a full account of all that I knew of my breed, seed, and generation ; but, though I gave a very true account, the justice said I could give no account; so I was indicted...
Pàgina 200 - To soothe the stranger's woe; For grief was heavy at his heart, And tears began to flow. His rising cares the Hermit spied, With answering care opprest : " And whence, unhappy youth," he cried, " The sorrows of thy breast ? " From better habitations spurn'd, Reluctant dost thou rove?
Pàgina 201 - But let a maid thy pity share, Whom love has taught to stray ; Who seeks for rest, but finds despair Companion of her way.
Pàgina 159 - I was able to handle a mallet ; and here I lived an easy kind of a life for five years, I only wrought ten hours in the day, and had my meat and drink provided for my labour.
Pàgina 159 - People may say this and that of being in jail, but, for my part, I found Newgate as agreeable a place as ever I was in in all my life.