The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1801 |
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Pàgina 12
... proposed to fend an additional body of 26 , co0 men , which , added to the 22,000 in Holland , amounted to an army of 48 , coo British troops ! We should thus heap new and enormous expences on ourselves . Had we not taken our full ...
... proposed to fend an additional body of 26 , co0 men , which , added to the 22,000 in Holland , amounted to an army of 48 , coo British troops ! We should thus heap new and enormous expences on ourselves . Had we not taken our full ...
Pàgina 13
... proposed ? What could the gallant Sidney Smith have achieved had he re- mained on board his fhis ? What might have been the confequences of Bonaparte's expedition had he been unopposed ? or what the fitua- tion of the Ottoman empire ...
... proposed ? What could the gallant Sidney Smith have achieved had he re- mained on board his fhis ? What might have been the confequences of Bonaparte's expedition had he been unopposed ? or what the fitua- tion of the Ottoman empire ...
Pàgina 28
... propose such regulations as , he was informed on the fubject , would ren- der the tax on income a much larger production than ... proposed to charge it with 13,500 , cool . of the pre- fent loan , Making together the fum of · £ . 200,000 ...
... propose such regulations as , he was informed on the fubject , would ren- der the tax on income a much larger production than ... proposed to charge it with 13,500 , cool . of the pre- fent loan , Making together the fum of · £ . 200,000 ...
Pàgina 30
... propose He estimated this tax at Total , £ . 235,000 78,500 313,500 this tax from feeing , by the late fales of the Eaft - India company , that the confumption of the higher priced teas had confiderably increased even during the war ...
... propose He estimated this tax at Total , £ . 235,000 78,500 313,500 this tax from feeing , by the late fales of the Eaft - India company , that the confumption of the higher priced teas had confiderably increased even during the war ...
Pàgina 69
... proposed . No bad confe- quences , could have enfued ; our military operations were now fuf- pended , and our preparations might have gone on with equal vigor for the next campaign . If the terms of Bonaparte had been unreasonable ...
... proposed . No bad confe- quences , could have enfued ; our military operations were now fuf- pended , and our preparations might have gone on with equal vigor for the next campaign . If the terms of Bonaparte had been unreasonable ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina xii - Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.
Pàgina 215 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa?
Pàgina 39 - I should be called a clever fellow, even though it should never reach my ears - a poor Negrodriver - or perhaps a victim to that inhospitable clime, and gone to the world of spirits! I can truly say...
Pàgina xix - In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor.
Pàgina xiii - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
Pàgina xiii - Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
Pàgina 207 - Hark ! where the sweeping scythe now rips along : Each sturdy mower emulous and strong ; Whose writhing form meridian heat defies, Bends o'er his work, and every sinew tries ; Prostrates the waving treasure at his feet, But spares the rising clover, short and sweet. Come, Health ! come, Jollity ! light-footed, come ; Here hold your revels, and make this your home. Each heart awaits and hails you as its own ; Each moisten'd brow, that scorns to wear a frown : Th...
Pàgina 37 - I engaged several of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them and the composition of most of my correspondents, flattered my vanity. I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings...
Pàgina xxxvi - There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz.
Pàgina xiv - When their reputation was high, they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind.