The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Τόμος 321793 |
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... tion ; their variety , contradictions , and number , all tended to increase the diffi- cuity of difcovering the truth . From such heaps of inert or doubtful matter , where the the clearing away of whole bushels of chaff , was PREFACE .
... tion ; their variety , contradictions , and number , all tended to increase the diffi- cuity of difcovering the truth . From such heaps of inert or doubtful matter , where the the clearing away of whole bushels of chaff , was PREFACE .
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... an account in our preceding volumes ) fhall , with the death of the Emperor Jofeph , and fome other matters , form a retrospective article in our enfuing volume . THE THE ANNUAL REGISTER , For the YEAR 1790 . THE iv PREFACE .
... an account in our preceding volumes ) fhall , with the death of the Emperor Jofeph , and fome other matters , form a retrospective article in our enfuing volume . THE THE ANNUAL REGISTER , For the YEAR 1790 . THE iv PREFACE .
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... matter of cer- tainty , and yet the moment the houfe is examined the whole is found to be groundlefs . The con- vent of Montmartre has been twice befet by twenty or thirty thoufand men , who threatened it with de- ftruction , for having ...
... matter of cer- tainty , and yet the moment the houfe is examined the whole is found to be groundlefs . The con- vent of Montmartre has been twice befet by twenty or thirty thoufand men , who threatened it with de- ftruction , for having ...
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... matter of obfervation to travellers , and of ridicule to poets and faty- rifts . A confideration of these circumstances will tend much to account for and throw light upon many parts of the prefent and fu- ture conduct of that ...
... matter of obfervation to travellers , and of ridicule to poets and faty- rifts . A confideration of these circumstances will tend much to account for and throw light upon many parts of the prefent and fu- ture conduct of that ...
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... matter , fubverfive of all order and government , was aftonifhing . For amidst the general darknefs and igno- rance which involved the people at large , there was a numerous por- tion of men who dedicated , or feemed to to dedicate ...
... matter , fubverfive of all order and government , was aftonifhing . For amidst the general darknefs and igno- rance which involved the people at large , there was a numerous por- tion of men who dedicated , or feemed to to dedicate ...
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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...