The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Količina 25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 |
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addreſs Admiral almoſt alſo anſwer army arrived beſt Britiſh buſineſs Capt Captain cauſe cloſe command confequence confiderable confidered convoy council courſe court danger defire deſign diſtance Earl enemy Engliſh eſcape Eſq expreſſed faid fail fame feamen feemed fent fide fiege fire firſt fituation fleet fome foon force French frigates fuch fuffered fuperiority fupply fupport garrifon guns honour Houſe Hyder increaſe inſtance intereſts iſland land laſt leſs Lord loſs Madras Majesty Majesty's Marattas meaſures ment minifters Minorca moſt neceſſary neral Nizam obſerved occafion officers parliament perfon poffeffion Poonah poſed preſent preſidency propoſed provifions purpoſe queſtion reaſon reſpect ſaid ſame ſcarcely ſea ſecond ſecurity ſeemed ſerved ſervice ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhips ſhot ſhould Sir Eyre Coote Sir Samuel Hood ſmall ſome Spaniſh ſpirit ſquadron ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtores ſubject ſuch ſuppoſed theſe thoſe tion treaty troops uſe veſſels whole whoſe
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Stran 1 - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth, in the bay of Fundy, to its source, and from its source, directly north, to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Stran 212 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Stran 324 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries...
Stran 1 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Stran 209 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Stran 324 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Stran 212 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Stran 212 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Stran 324 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...