The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1823 - English poetry |
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... liberty in Italy . The schools for mutual instruction had been abolished ; the free institutions had been destroyed ; and the severest persecutions had followed those who had espoused the cause of liberal institutions . Mr. Wilmot was ...
... liberty in Italy . The schools for mutual instruction had been abolished ; the free institutions had been destroyed ; and the severest persecutions had followed those who had espoused the cause of liberal institutions . Mr. Wilmot was ...
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... liberty to carry on commerce with other foreign colonies in foreign ships . Since the act of 1805 , which consolidated the acts respecting colonial commerce , it had been competent to bring into their ports the most important and ...
... liberty to carry on commerce with other foreign colonies in foreign ships . Since the act of 1805 , which consolidated the acts respecting colonial commerce , it had been competent to bring into their ports the most important and ...
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... liberty to take back goods when they had carried out a cargo : but there might be great incon- venience in the necessity of carry- ing out any cargo . Whether , then , they looked to the com- merce of the western hemisphere , or the ...
... liberty to take back goods when they had carried out a cargo : but there might be great incon- venience in the necessity of carry- ing out any cargo . Whether , then , they looked to the com- merce of the western hemisphere , or the ...
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... liberty to export their pro- duce to all the northern parts of America , we should not have found the people of this latter country deriving all their supplies of certain articles from the colo- nies of other European states , which ...
... liberty to export their pro- duce to all the northern parts of America , we should not have found the people of this latter country deriving all their supplies of certain articles from the colo- nies of other European states , which ...
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... liberty to raise from his unfor- tunate tenant the highest rent which he could obtain . In many instances , the rack - rent amounted to from 77. to 107. an acre , leaving the tenant nothing wherewith to pay taxes or tithes . The subject ...
... liberty to raise from his unfor- tunate tenant the highest rent which he could obtain . In many instances , the rack - rent amounted to from 77. to 107. an acre , leaving the tenant nothing wherewith to pay taxes or tithes . The subject ...
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Page 22 - Now did Peace make entry, and strive to get foremost to the king ; but I grieve to tell how great wrath she did discover unto those of her attendants ; and, much contrary to her semblance, most rudely made war with her olive branch, and laid on the pates of those who did oppose her coming.
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Page 21 - ... dance with the Queen of Sheba; but he fell down and humbled himself before her, and was carried to an inner chamber and laid on a bed of state ; which was not a little...
Page 22 - I will now, in good sooth, declare to you, who will not blab, that the gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads, and we are going on, hereabouts, as if the devil was contriving every man should blow up himself, by wild riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance.
Page 21 - ... but said she would return home again, as there was no gift which Heaven had not already given his Majesty. She then returned to Hope and Faith, who were both sick and spewing in the lower hall.
Page 150 - Cam. — which means, in proper spelling, Trinity College Cambridge — there resided One Harry Dashington ; a youth excelling In all the learning commonly provided For those who choose that classic station For finishing their education. That is — he understood computing The odds at any race or match ; Was a dead hand at pigeon-shooting ; Could kick up rows, knock down the watch, Play truant and the rake at random, Drink, tie cravats, and drive a tandem.
Page 18 - MR. ATTORNEY, — I thought best, once for all, to let you know in plainness what I find of you, and what you shall find of me. You take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, my experience, my discretion.
Page 21 - King, who did not accept it, but put it by with his hand; and, by a strange medley of versification, did endeavour to make suit to the King. But Victory did not triumph long, for, after much lamentable utterance, she was led away like a silly captive, and laid to sleep in the outer steps of the ante-chamber.
Page 6 - It was about fourteen feet by twelve, and ten or eleven feet in height. The walls were lined with brown nankeen, bordered and edged with common green bordering paper, and destitute of surbace.
Page 151 - One need not be a necromancer to guess that, with so wild a wight, the next offence occurred next night ; when our incurable came rolling home as the midnight chimes were tolling, and rang the College bell. No answer. The second peal was vain — the third made the street echo its alarum ; when to his great delight he heard the sordid Janitor, old Ben, rousing and growling in his den. "Who's there? — I s'pose young Harum-scarum." "'Tis I, my worthy Ben — 'tis Harry.