Annual Register, Volume 4Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... fame time the most contradictory to the paffions and prejudices of nations . It appears hard to lofe upon every fide every object of the war . A peace on this foundation will be cenfured , but it is the beft , on the fame principle that ...
... fame time the most contradictory to the paffions and prejudices of nations . It appears hard to lofe upon every fide every object of the war . A peace on this foundation will be cenfured , but it is the beft , on the fame principle that ...
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... fame candour and good faith , and the fame fincere defire of peace , their influence muft neceffarily tend to infpire principles of moderation into the reft , and muft contribute largely to accelerate the great work of pacification ...
... fame candour and good faith , and the fame fincere defire of peace , their influence muft neceffarily tend to infpire principles of moderation into the reft , and muft contribute largely to accelerate the great work of pacification ...
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... fame propofition than feparate articles . The first was , " that the two crowns shall remain in posses- sion of what they have conqueredone from the other " The fecond im- ported that " the situation in which they shall stand at certain ...
... fame propofition than feparate articles . The first was , " that the two crowns shall remain in posses- sion of what they have conqueredone from the other " The fecond im- ported that " the situation in which they shall stand at certain ...
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... fame time to diftract the enemy , whilft the men of war directed their fire with great judgment and effect on the hills . Thefe manœuvres gave brigadier general Lambert with an handful of men an oppor- tunity of climbing up a very fleep ...
... fame time to diftract the enemy , whilft the men of war directed their fire with great judgment and effect on the hills . Thefe manœuvres gave brigadier general Lambert with an handful of men an oppor- tunity of climbing up a very fleep ...
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... fame time on all the four outworks , which the troops , ordered on this important enterprize , approached with fo much precau- tion that they were not perceived by the garrifon . They fcaled all the four at the fame time ; and the ...
... fame time on all the four outworks , which the troops , ordered on this important enterprize , approached with fo much precau- tion that they were not perceived by the garrifon . They fcaled all the four at the fame time ; and the ...
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