Annual Register, Volume 52Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1812 - History |
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... course of proceedings on this subject , a question arose relative to the privileges of the House of Commons , and the liberty of the press , particularly that of reporting parliamentary debates ; and this again to a train of incidents ...
... course of proceedings on this subject , a question arose relative to the privileges of the House of Commons , and the liberty of the press , particularly that of reporting parliamentary debates ; and this again to a train of incidents ...
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... course of an animated speech , maintained its propriety by the same kind of reasoning that had been used by speakers on the same side of the question , in the House of Lords . Having come to the affairs of America , he said , that it ...
... course of an animated speech , maintained its propriety by the same kind of reasoning that had been used by speakers on the same side of the question , in the House of Lords . Having come to the affairs of America , he said , that it ...
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... course of the first campaign in Spain , our army had suffered more than it could have suffered in a country decidedly hostile ; that it was re- ceived with jealousy and unwilling- ness , and that its presence , instead of rousing the ...
... course of the first campaign in Spain , our army had suffered more than it could have suffered in a country decidedly hostile ; that it was re- ceived with jealousy and unwilling- ness , and that its presence , instead of rousing the ...
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... course delighted with the honours they received . It was natural enough that persons of this description , and that without imputing to them any deliberate dereliction of their duty , should represent only the fair side of things ; give ...
... course delighted with the honours they received . It was natural enough that persons of this description , and that without imputing to them any deliberate dereliction of their duty , should represent only the fair side of things ; give ...
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... course to our best means of de- fence , moral as well as physical , to the wisdom and union of our councils , as well as the strength of our fleets and armies . Perhaps we vere already in a situation which defied the efforts of the ...
... course to our best means of de- fence , moral as well as physical , to the wisdom and union of our councils , as well as the strength of our fleets and armies . Perhaps we vere already in a situation which defied the efforts of the ...
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Page 398 - I die: remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 693 - The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow, Or lie like pictures on the sand below; With all those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon...
Page 417 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 264 - ... subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom.
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Page 694 - Ne'er made the mourner in his God rejoice? Is he not man, by sin and suffering tried? Is he not man, for whom the Saviour died? Belie the Negro's powers: — in headlong will, Christian! thy brother thou shalt prove him still: Belie his virtues; since his wrongs began, His follies and his crimes have stampt him Man.
Page 691 - tis done, Counts up his Meals, now lessen'd by that one ; For Expectation is on Time intent, Whether he brings us Joy or Punishment. - Yes ! e'en in sleep th* impressions all remain, He hears the Sentence and he feels the Chain ; He sees the Judge and Jury, when he shakes, And loudly cries, " Not Guilty," and awakes : Then chilling Tremblings o'er his Body creep, Till worn-out Nature is compell'd to sleep.
Page 258 - The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists ; and particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity ; and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written revelation, and, in the second place, from the Revelation of the Lord Jesus ; and from the whole, to point out the inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind.