The Annual Register, Volume 114Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1873 - Books 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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... living memory . For weeks and months the newspapers were filled with accounts of fresh thunderstorms each more severe than the last ; and even when the heavy and vaporous heats which for some time accompanied them had given place to ...
... living memory . For weeks and months the newspapers were filled with accounts of fresh thunderstorms each more severe than the last ; and even when the heavy and vaporous heats which for some time accompanied them had given place to ...
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... living , the alarming rise of prices in the most common commodi- ties of life , and the unequal struggles of the salaried middle - classes to keep abreast of the wave of wealth which threatened to sink them while the battle raged ...
... living , the alarming rise of prices in the most common commodi- ties of life , and the unequal struggles of the salaried middle - classes to keep abreast of the wave of wealth which threatened to sink them while the battle raged ...
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... living kept open until he took his degree . Whether the Premier approved the restriction or not , he was bound to observe it , and not to interpret the statute wantonly and arbitrarily . Mr. Henley thought it a pity that the Premier ...
... living kept open until he took his degree . Whether the Premier approved the restriction or not , he was bound to observe it , and not to interpret the statute wantonly and arbitrarily . Mr. Henley thought it a pity that the Premier ...
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... living , " it said , " who does not feel , like a personal wound and insult , the outrage offered by that swaggering upstart , the pledge - breaker of Athlone , the whilom friend , companion , and political conspirator of John Sadleir ...
... living , " it said , " who does not feel , like a personal wound and insult , the outrage offered by that swaggering upstart , the pledge - breaker of Athlone , the whilom friend , companion , and political conspirator of John Sadleir ...
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... living under delusions which I often endea- voured to dissipate . I have never ceased saying to friend and foe , ' One day you will cruelly regret the way in which the interests of the army are neglected . One day we shall have a ...
... living under delusions which I often endea- voured to dissipate . I have never ceased saying to friend and foe , ' One day you will cruelly regret the way in which the interests of the army are neglected . One day we shall have a ...
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