The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., Volume 8G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1788 |
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merchant's counting - houfe ; wield- ing a truncheon with one hand , and picking a pocket with the other . From the facts he had stated , Mr. Sheridan inferred , that the begums had not given disturbance to the government , that they ...
merchant's counting - houfe ; wield- ing a truncheon with one hand , and picking a pocket with the other . From the facts he had stated , Mr. Sheridan inferred , that the begums had not given disturbance to the government , that they ...
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Page 146 - It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below.
Page 98 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
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Page 98 - ... or injurious to others ; that it is liable to as few exceptions as could reasonably have been expected, we hope and believe ; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish...
Page 69 - Barthelemy having had no other object than to announce to that Court an intention, the motives of which no longer exist, especially since the King of Prussia has...
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Page 145 - ... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base.
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Page 145 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.