The Annual Register, Volume 139Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1898 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... causes , and , if possible , to suggest means for its amelioration . " It is with much regret and with feelings of ... caused by famine , make their task more hopeful than in previous visi- tations . My people throughout my dominions at ...
... causes , and , if possible , to suggest means for its amelioration . " It is with much regret and with feelings of ... caused by famine , make their task more hopeful than in previous visi- tations . My people throughout my dominions at ...
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... causes . In his programme of the previous year Mr. Goschen had stated that ninety torpedo - boat destroyers were built , building , or to be ordered ; forty - two with contract speeds of 26 to 27 knots , of which all but six had been ...
... causes . In his programme of the previous year Mr. Goschen had stated that ninety torpedo - boat destroyers were built , building , or to be ordered ; forty - two with contract speeds of 26 to 27 knots , of which all but six had been ...
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... cause no difference in the division lobby , deprived the front Opposition bench of a scholar who had at one time given promise of making a reputation as a statesman . On more than one occasion he had shown sufficient indepen- dence to ...
... cause no difference in the division lobby , deprived the front Opposition bench of a scholar who had at one time given promise of making a reputation as a statesman . On more than one occasion he had shown sufficient indepen- dence to ...
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... cause of the insurgent Cretans , and the organisation which had come to the help of the Arme- nians was promptly used on behalf of these other Christian subjects of the Sultan . Public meetings were called in various parts of the ...
... cause of the insurgent Cretans , and the organisation which had come to the help of the Arme- nians was promptly used on behalf of these other Christian subjects of the Sultan . Public meetings were called in various parts of the ...
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... all approbation . Encouraged by the support of a practically unanimous meeting , Mr. Bryce took up the Cretan cause with some vigour in Parliament ( Feb. 22 ) , taking for the 1897. ] 61 Mr. Bryce on the Cretan Question .
... all approbation . Encouraged by the support of a practically unanimous meeting , Mr. Bryce took up the Cretan cause with some vigour in Parliament ( Feb. 22 ) , taking for the 1897. ] 61 Mr. Bryce on the Cretan Question .
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