The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volum 24J. Dodsley, 1800 |
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Resultats 1 - 5 de 100.
Pàgina
... whole British nation , however dispersed in the old or in the new world , every part of the hiftory of this con- tention , in all its circumftances and confequences , must at all times be in the highest degree interefting . It would be ...
... whole British nation , however dispersed in the old or in the new world , every part of the hiftory of this con- tention , in all its circumftances and confequences , must at all times be in the highest degree interefting . It would be ...
Pàgina 6
... whole time , a heavy fire from the ships and the town batteries was kept up against the gallies and boats ; but the darkness prevented any certain knowledge of the effect . By the remains of one of thofe veffels , which were examined in ...
... whole time , a heavy fire from the ships and the town batteries was kept up against the gallies and boats ; but the darkness prevented any certain knowledge of the effect . By the remains of one of thofe veffels , which were examined in ...
Pàgina 7
... whole , it will probably be found , that , except- ing fome very peculiar fituation , or a conflict with fome contemp- tible enemy , it will require all the profeffional boldness and dexterity , and all the natural fortitude of British ...
... whole , it will probably be found , that , except- ing fome very peculiar fituation , or a conflict with fome contemp- tible enemy , it will require all the profeffional boldness and dexterity , and all the natural fortitude of British ...
Pàgina 8
... whole fell folely into his hands , he would , as well as great opulence , become pof- feffed of great weight , influence , and power in the empire . The election lay in the two chapters , and in the reigning elector ; but fubject to his ...
... whole fell folely into his hands , he would , as well as great opulence , become pof- feffed of great weight , influence , and power in the empire . The election lay in the two chapters , and in the reigning elector ; but fubject to his ...
Pàgina 11
... whole of her am- ple dominions . Scarcely any thing was left unclaimed . The only difficulty feemed to reft in the divifion of the fpoil . From the extremity of diftrefs , and a ftate of fuch imminent danger , that the herself doubted ...
... whole of her am- ple dominions . Scarcely any thing was left unclaimed . The only difficulty feemed to reft in the divifion of the fpoil . From the extremity of diftrefs , and a ftate of fuch imminent danger , that the herself doubted ...
Continguts
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 142 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with 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.
Pàgina 183 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Pàgina 326 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Pàgina 273 - March, 1767, upon lands, tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and that a proportionable cefs, according to the ninth article of the treaty of union, be laid upon that part of Great Britain called Scot, wnd, 1,528,568!.
Pàgina 2 - Constantine we may contemplate a hero, who had so long inspired his subjects with love and his enemies with terror, degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch, corrupted by his fortune, or raised by conquest above the necessity of dissimulation.
Pàgina 202 - Unless sometime some crumbs fell to his share, Which in his wallet long, God wot, kept he, As on the which full daint'ly would he fare; His drink, the running stream, his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground: To this poor life was Misery ybound.
Pàgina 215 - Venice, returned early in 1715, and was appointed one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to the prince of Wales. In the first parliament of this reign he was elected for the borough of St.
Pàgina 172 - Gilds her accomplifh'd work the female frame, With rich luxuriance tender, fweetly wild, And juft between the woman and the child.
Pàgina 202 - Devising means how she may vengeance take, Never in rest, till she have her desire : But frets within so far forth with the fire Of wreaking flames, that now determines she To die by death, or veng'd by death to be.
Pàgina 164 - You cannot bar my conftant feet to " trace " The woods and lawns, by living ftream, " at eve^ " Let health my nerves and finer fibres "•brace, «' And I their toys to the great children " leave : " Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can