The Annual Register, Volume 107Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1866 - 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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... districts of Lancashire showed signs of revived industry and comfort . The long - protracted contest in America , which had been the source of these troubles , appeared now , after four years of its destructive continuance , to be ...
... districts of Lancashire showed signs of revived industry and comfort . The long - protracted contest in America , which had been the source of these troubles , appeared now , after four years of its destructive continuance , to be ...
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... . The distress which prevailed in some of the manufacturing districts has greatly abated ; and the Act political agitation or other symptoms of popular discontent . The B 2 1865. ] Opening of Parliament . — The Queen's Speech . [ 3.
... . The distress which prevailed in some of the manufacturing districts has greatly abated ; and the Act political agitation or other symptoms of popular discontent . The B 2 1865. ] Opening of Parliament . — The Queen's Speech . [ 3.
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... districts of Lancashire showed signs of revived industry and comfort . The long - protracted contest in America , which had been the source of these troubles , appeared now , after four years of its destructive continuance , to be ...
... districts of Lancashire showed signs of revived industry and comfort . The long - protracted contest in America , which had been the source of these troubles , appeared now , after four years of its destructive continuance , to be ...
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... districts has greatly abated ; and the Act passed for the encouragement of public works in those districts B 2 1865. ] Opening of Parliament . - The Queen's Speech . [ 3.
... districts has greatly abated ; and the Act passed for the encouragement of public works in those districts B 2 1865. ] Opening of Parliament . - The Queen's Speech . [ 3.
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Edmund Burke. passed for the encouragement of public works in those districts has been attended with useful results . " Ireland during the past year has had its share in the advan- tage of a good harvest , and trade and manufactures are ...
Edmund Burke. passed for the encouragement of public works in those districts has been attended with useful results . " Ireland during the past year has had its share in the advan- tage of a good harvest , and trade and manufactures are ...
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Page 288 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 86 - I do swear, that I will defend to the utmost of my power the settlement of property within this realm, as established by the laws : and I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure, any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...
Page 188 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 276 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Page 276 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Page 277 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 277 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 277 - ... needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God .always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 77 - God ; and in Public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments I will use the Form in ' the said Book prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered by lawful
Page 277 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.