Annual Register, Volume 4Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 - History |
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... less than eighty thoufand facks of meal , fifty thoufand facks of oats , and a million of rations of hay , a very fmall part of which had been deftroyed . Thefe were ac- quifitions of the utmost advantage , as they wonderfully ...
... less than eighty thoufand facks of meal , fifty thoufand facks of oats , and a million of rations of hay , a very fmall part of which had been deftroyed . Thefe were ac- quifitions of the utmost advantage , as they wonderfully ...
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... less strong than the reft ; on the contrary , they built their principal hopes on the exceffive fteepness and diffi- culty of the rocks , which had rendered the enemy rather lefs at- tentive on this quarter . This ar- duous attempt was ...
... less strong than the reft ; on the contrary , they built their principal hopes on the exceffive fteepness and diffi- culty of the rocks , which had rendered the enemy rather lefs at- tentive on this quarter . This ar- duous attempt was ...
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... less than 600 perfons cleared by the above infolvent act , from the prifons in and near this metropolis , who have been in the land and fea fervice , and who by this act will be obliged to go again . The compulfive claufe in this in ...
... less than 600 perfons cleared by the above infolvent act , from the prifons in and near this metropolis , who have been in the land and fea fervice , and who by this act will be obliged to go again . The compulfive claufe in this in ...
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... less than half an hour they got the distance exact , and we veered away , to be out of the range of their fhells ; but we found that when we veered , they weighed anchor , dropped with the tides , and ftil ! preferved their dif- tance ...
... less than half an hour they got the distance exact , and we veered away , to be out of the range of their fhells ; but we found that when we veered , they weighed anchor , dropped with the tides , and ftil ! preferved their dif- tance ...
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... less than 196 fhips in the foreign trade , befides 207 colliers , and 68 coafting veffels ; which are the greatest number of fhips that have arrived in the river Thames in fo fhort a time fince the beginning of the prefent war . The ...
... less than 196 fhips in the foreign trade , befides 207 colliers , and 68 coafting veffels ; which are the greatest number of fhips that have arrived in the river Thames in fo fhort a time fince the beginning of the prefent war . The ...
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