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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... seemed , however , to be in good spirits , and kept taking off his hat to bow to the people who cheered him . At Temple Bar the Queen was met by the Lord Mayor , the Sheriffs , and a deputation from the Aldermen and Common Council of ...
... seemed , however , to be in good spirits , and kept taking off his hat to bow to the people who cheered him . At Temple Bar the Queen was met by the Lord Mayor , the Sheriffs , and a deputation from the Aldermen and Common Council of ...
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... seemed favourable enough . A contemporary report says , - " The ' pocket ' barometer at the beginning of 1872 stands at ' set fair ' with a rising tendency ; the monetary prospect seldom more satisfactory , according to the reading of ...
... seemed favourable enough . A contemporary report says , - " The ' pocket ' barometer at the beginning of 1872 stands at ' set fair ' with a rising tendency ; the monetary prospect seldom more satisfactory , according to the reading of ...
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... seemed to be more and more the leading characteristic of the bulk of the people - of the great body of the middle classes at all events - and political and social agita- tors strove in vain to strike a spark out of them , with any real ...
... seemed to be more and more the leading characteristic of the bulk of the people - of the great body of the middle classes at all events - and political and social agita- tors strove in vain to strike a spark out of them , with any real ...
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... seemed by the speech they had just heard as if the weakness of the Lord Chancellor's case were to be covered by unjustifiable abuse of the Lord Chief Justice . Warmly defending the course taken by the latter , who had been for many ...
... seemed by the speech they had just heard as if the weakness of the Lord Chancellor's case were to be covered by unjustifiable abuse of the Lord Chief Justice . Warmly defending the course taken by the latter , who had been for many ...
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... seemed to be of opinion that it was sufficiently provided with occupation , and the just esteem which is accorded to Lord Hatherley is founded on other qualities than those of a zealous and successful law reformer . In the latter days ...
... seemed to be of opinion that it was sufficiently provided with occupation , and the just esteem which is accorded to Lord Hatherley is founded on other qualities than those of a zealous and successful law reformer . In the latter days ...
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