The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volumen20Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1794 |
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... army . Motives for not attacking Ticonderoga . General Carleton returns with the army to Canada . Situation of affairs to the fouthward . General Lee taken . Perfeverance of the Congres , Meafures for renewing their armies . Lands ...
... army . Motives for not attacking Ticonderoga . General Carleton returns with the army to Canada . Situation of affairs to the fouthward . General Lee taken . Perfeverance of the Congres , Meafures for renewing their armies . Lands ...
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... army , required , if it had been poffible , a ftill greater difpatch . The winter was faft approaching , two inland feas to be paffed , the unknown force of the enemy on each to be fubdued , and the ftrong polls of Crown Point and ...
... army , required , if it had been poffible , a ftill greater difpatch . The winter was faft approaching , two inland feas to be paffed , the unknown force of the enemy on each to be fubdued , and the ftrong polls of Crown Point and ...
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... army at hs back . The fucceffes of their tel- lows on the fide of New York , in- creafed the impatience , and excited the jealousy of this army , every one aprehending that the war would be brought to an end , before he could have an ...
... army at hs back . The fucceffes of their tel- lows on the fide of New York , in- creafed the impatience , and excited the jealousy of this army , every one aprehending that the war would be brought to an end , before he could have an ...
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... army . As he continued there till towards the end of the month , and , befides feveral reconnoitring parties , pufh- ed on at one time ftrong detach- ments on bota fides of the Lake , who approached within a fmall ditance of Ticonderoga ...
... army . As he continued there till towards the end of the month , and , befides feveral reconnoitring parties , pufh- ed on at one time ftrong detach- ments on bota fides of the Lake , who approached within a fmall ditance of Ticonderoga ...
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... army , as well as perfons of power at court , contributed not a little to the triumph and exultation of that time . The capture of Gen. Lee was alfo attended with a circumstance , which has fince been productive of much inconvenience to ...
... army , as well as perfons of power at court , contributed not a little to the triumph and exultation of that time . The capture of Gen. Lee was alfo attended with a circumstance , which has fince been productive of much inconvenience to ...
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Página 3 - ... religious factions, they seemed to be disarmed in my behalf of their wonted fury. My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct: not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability. I cannot...
Página 266 - ¡rinds, 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 Scotland, 1,500,000!.
Página 111 - Then plunge under it with your eyes open, throwing yourself towards the egg, and endeavouring by the action of your hands and feet against the water to get forward till within reach of it. In this attempt you will find that the water buoys you up against your inclination; that it is not so easy a thing to sink as you imagined; that you cannot but by active force get down to the egg.
Página 138 - Hones had formerly been dug; and that it would have been no difficult matter to roll them down the hill after they were formed. I think this a very reafonable conjecture ; and have no doubt that it has been fo.
Página 74 - ... both capital and profit. They are the projects, therefore, to which of all others a prudent lawgiver, who...
Página 193 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail.
Página 259 - the necessity of preventing the American trade from passing into foreign Channels.
Página 75 - That there may be a continent, or large tract of land, near the Pole, I will not deny; on the contrary I am of opinion there is; and it is probable that we have seen a part of it.