The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Τόμος 321793 |
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... court of Rome for ever abolished . Some obfervations on the precipitancy , with which fixteen laws of the utmost moment were hurried through in one night ; as well as on the bad effect of paffing laws by acclamation . Nobility and ...
... court of Rome for ever abolished . Some obfervations on the precipitancy , with which fixteen laws of the utmost moment were hurried through in one night ; as well as on the bad effect of paffing laws by acclamation . Nobility and ...
Σελίδα 12
... court , the nobles , and the clergy , feemed as if they had been involved in a general ftupor , without action , feeling , or life . Not a fingle writer of ability or eminence was engaged to refute the doctrines which were thus af ...
... court , the nobles , and the clergy , feemed as if they had been involved in a general ftupor , without action , feeling , or life . Not a fingle writer of ability or eminence was engaged to refute the doctrines which were thus af ...
Σελίδα 15
... court rolls , and all records of paft tranfactions , deftroyed by fire . Happy were thofe , who even in this ftate , plundered of every thing , could efcape half naked from the flames , without perfonal injury . But in too many ...
... court rolls , and all records of paft tranfactions , deftroyed by fire . Happy were thofe , who even in this ftate , plundered of every thing , could efcape half naked from the flames , without perfonal injury . But in too many ...
Σελίδα 16
... court papers , records , and public archives being carefully de- ftroyed , to the future diftrefs and ruin of numberless families in the furrounding country , as well as in that city . In a few places , the gentlemen and other land ...
... court papers , records , and public archives being carefully de- ftroyed , to the future diftrefs and ruin of numberless families in the furrounding country , as well as in that city . In a few places , the gentlemen and other land ...
Σελίδα 24
... court of Rome , and all fees or taxes here- tofore paid to it for ever abolished . In a word , every thing changed its ancient form and aspect . It was observed , by men of fhrewd obfervation , that however brilliant the generous ...
... court of Rome , and all fees or taxes here- tofore paid to it for ever abolished . In a word , every thing changed its ancient form and aspect . It was observed , by men of fhrewd obfervation , that however brilliant the generous ...
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Σελίδα 201 - The Body of Benjamin Franklin Printer (Like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out And stript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new and more elegant edition Revised and corrected by The Author.* * The foregoing epitaph was written by Dr.
Σελίδα 164 - Abyssinia is clear and the sun shines; about nine, a small cloud, not above four feet broad, appears in the East, whirling violently round as if upon an axis; but arrived near the zenith, it...
Σελίδα 10 - To see him setting out on a journey, was a matter truly curious: his first care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into his great-coat pocket, or any scraps of bread which he found; baggage he never took; then, mounting one of his hunters, his next attention was to get out of London, into that road where turnpikes were the fewest.
Σελίδα 277 - Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubje&s the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament aflembled, beg leave to return Your Majefty our humble thanks, for your moft gracious fpeech from the Throne.
Σελίδα 165 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Σελίδα 14 - Forest ; and an old man and woman, his tenants, •were the only persons with whom he could hold any converse. Here he fell ill ; and as he would have no...
Σελίδα 85 - Queen could not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author, and said with great indignation, that she would have him racked to produce his author, I replied : ' Nay, Madam, he is a doctor ; never rack his person, but rack his...
Σελίδα 160 - ... from his bones, they do not meddle with the thighs, or the parts where the great arteries are. At...
Σελίδα 31 - I was placed in, by living in a native family, I had an opportunity of feeing more of the nature and difpofition of the middling- fort of people, and their manners and cuftoms, than perhaps has fallen to the lot of moft travellers, I am induced to give the few obfervations I made during that period. The Perfians, with refpeft to outward behaviour, are certainly the Parifians of the Eaffl.
Σελίδα 42 - ... as the mother, keeping up her prerogative, never parts with the power over any portion of...