Annual Register, Volume 39Edmund Burke 1800 - History |
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... most vulnerable . Such was the plan in the contemplation of the enemies of England , and of which they formed the moft fanguine ex- pectations . Nor did the moft faga- cious politicians look upon it as ill- founded , though they were ...
... most vulnerable . Such was the plan in the contemplation of the enemies of England , and of which they formed the moft fanguine ex- pectations . Nor did the moft faga- cious politicians look upon it as ill- founded , though they were ...
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... most active , the moft powerful , the most arbitrary , means of keeping them in due fubjection ? It had alfo been complained , he faid , that noted emigrants emigrants had been fuffered to re- turn . The places 72 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1797 .
... most active , the moft powerful , the most arbitrary , means of keeping them in due fubjection ? It had alfo been complained , he faid , that noted emigrants emigrants had been fuffered to re- turn . The places 72 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1797 .
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... most prominent feature in his character , was a manly boldnefs , fimplicity , and ftrength of mind , which , fcorning defiles , advanced , as directly as poffible , to its object . The following remarks on the tactics , manners , and ...
... most prominent feature in his character , was a manly boldnefs , fimplicity , and ftrength of mind , which , fcorning defiles , advanced , as directly as poffible , to its object . The following remarks on the tactics , manners , and ...
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... most abfolute and blind devotion of its members to the or- ders they were to receive from chiefs they were not to know . They began by feduction , bribery , and delufion . СНА Р. VII . Ineffectual Expedition of the English against. of ...
... most abfolute and blind devotion of its members to the or- ders they were to receive from chiefs they were not to know . They began by feduction , bribery , and delufion . СНА Р. VII . Ineffectual Expedition of the English against. of ...
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... most probable of the several opinions , formed upon this subject , feems that which afcribes to the French government a determination to prove the practibility of effecting a landing in England , notwithstand- ing the numerous fleets ...
... most probable of the several opinions , formed upon this subject , feems that which afcribes to the French government a determination to prove the practibility of effecting a landing in England , notwithstand- ing the numerous fleets ...
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Page 265 - Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.
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Page 265 - With this conduct of the French government, it will be proper to take into view the public audience given to the late minister of the United States, on his taking leave of the executive directory. The speech of the...
Page 265 - Majesty, and bring away their effects, as well as their persons, without being restrained in their emigration, under any pretence whatsoever except that of debts or of criminal prosecutions : the term limited for this emigration shall be fixed to the space of eighteen months, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty.
Page 350 - The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out. And sported his eyes and his temples about. While the spectre addressed Imogine. "Behold me, thou false one! behold me!