The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...

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G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1824

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Página 74 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Página 15 - At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine, to divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement.
Página 14 - P goes upstairs, for aught I know, or ever shall know, the fall of his foot could hardly, perhaps, be distinguished from that of Mr. Newton. But Mr. Newton's foot will never be heard upon that staircase again.
Página 468 - I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Sir, • Your obedient servant, WM. H, CRAWFORD. To the Honorable JOHN W. TAYLOR, Speaker of the House of Representative?. » . r ê Ip obedience to the directions of the " Act supplementary to the act to establish the Treasury Department," the Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits the following report: 1.
Página 201 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution, and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies, with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the wellbeing of the parties concerned.
Página 14 - I cannot look at it without being shocked. As I walked in the garden this evening, I saw the smoke issue from the study chimney, and said to myself, That used to be a sign that Mr. Newton was there ; but it is so no longer.
Página 149 - Spain, and to produce the worst consequences upon the probable discussions between that Country and France. The King's Government must, therefore, decline to advise His Majesty to hold a common language with his Allies upon this occasion, and it is so necessary for His Majesty, not to be supposed to participate in a measure of this description, and calculated to produce such consequences, that his Government must equally refrain from advising His Majesty to direct, that any comumnication should be...
Página 177 - ... situation not free from danger, as the animal seemed preparing to spring upon us, and we were standing on the bank at the distance of only a few yards from him, most of us being on foot and unarmed, without any -visible possibility of escaping. I had given up my horse to the hunters and was on foot myself; but there was no time for fear, and it was useless to attempt avoiding him. Poor Truy was in great alarm; she clasped her infant to her bosom, and screamed out, as if she thought her destruction...
Página 95 - He reported that he had been in chase of some deer which passed near his sleeping-place in the morning, and although he did not come up with them, yet that he found a wolf which had been killed by the stroke of a deer's horn, and had brought a part of it. We implicitly believed this story then, but afterwards became convinced from circumstances...
Página 207 - Charge them'' rung From each side, as in battle closing, Where the horses neigh, And the call to "aid...

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