Annual Register, Volym 52Edmund Burke 1825 |
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... troops , whose distin- guished and heroic valour has been unprofitably sacrificed in enter- prises productive not of advantage , but of lasting injury to the coun- try ; in enterprises marked only by a repetition of former errors ...
... troops , whose distin- guished and heroic valour has been unprofitably sacrificed in enter- prises productive not of advantage , but of lasting injury to the coun- try ; in enterprises marked only by a repetition of former errors ...
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... troops . Was it to be endured , that after the prodigality of which the ser- vants of the crown had been guilty , they should boggle at the expence of such enterprises ? Then , as to the transport of troops to Pied- mont , and from the ...
... troops . Was it to be endured , that after the prodigality of which the ser- vants of the crown had been guilty , they should boggle at the expence of such enterprises ? Then , as to the transport of troops to Pied- mont , and from the ...
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... troops should remain under a climate notoriously pestilential , and proverbially fatal . That it really was so , appeared in- disputably from two facts on re- cord . The late sir John Pringle , a man remarkably eminent in the medical ...
... troops should remain under a climate notoriously pestilential , and proverbially fatal . That it really was so , appeared in- disputably from two facts on re- cord . The late sir John Pringle , a man remarkably eminent in the medical ...
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... troops was committed , in an evil hour , to the guidance of that inauspicious and ill omened officer , of whom no- thing more was known than that he was once at the head of the admiralty ? And such was his lazy discharge of the duties ...
... troops was committed , in an evil hour , to the guidance of that inauspicious and ill omened officer , of whom no- thing more was known than that he was once at the head of the admiralty ? And such was his lazy discharge of the duties ...
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... troops in a diversion in Italy , under sir John Moore . This might not have been agreeable to the Wellesleys ; but it might have prevented the army of Eu- gene Napoleon from joining Buonaparte , which would have been , in his opinion ...
... troops in a diversion in Italy , under sir John Moore . This might not have been agreeable to the Wellesleys ; but it might have prevented the army of Eu- gene Napoleon from joining Buonaparte , which would have been , in his opinion ...
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Sida 246 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseized of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed , nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Sida 542 - And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form or lovelier face...
Sida 413 - That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized, in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or modify her edicts, as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Sida 556 - But she has treasured, and she loves them all ; When in her way she meets them, they appear Peculiar people — death has made them dear. He named his friend, but then his hand she prest, And fondly whisper'd, " Thou must go to rest ;"
Sida 437 - ... at the reflection : but let not this be read as something that relates only to another ; for a few years only can divide the eye that is now reading from the hand that has written.
Sida 280 - I have not only to lament, in common with the British Navy and the British Nation, in the fall of the Commander-in-Chief, the loss of a hero whose name will be immortal, and his memory ever dear to his Country ; but my heart is rent with the most poignant grief for the death of a friend, to whom, by many years...
Sida 548 - Thy numbers sweet with nature's vespers blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea, And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp ! Yet, once again, forgive my feeble sway, And little reck I of the censure sharp May idly cavil at an idle lay. Much have I owed thy strains on life's long way, Through secret woes the world has never known, When on the weary night dawned wearier day, And bitterer was the grief devoured alone. — That I o'erlive...
Sida 376 - Union, and notwithstanding thereof, remain in all time coming within Scotland, as it is now constituted by the Laws of that Kingdom, and with the same Authority and Privileges as before the Union, subject nevertheless to such Regulations for the better Administration of Justice as shall be made by the Parliament of Great Britain...
Sida 365 - The effective currency of a country depends upon the quickness of circulation, and the number of exchanges performed in a given time, as well as upon its numerical amount ; and all the circumstances which have a tendency to quicken or to retard the rate of circulation render the same amount of currency more or less adequate to the wants of trade.