Annual Register, Volume 52Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1812 - History |
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... four quarters of the world . It is our sincere wish and prayer , and there is not wanting reason to hope that the deliberations of the Spanish may one day rival in importance those of the British senate . It will serve as a focus to ...
... four quarters of the world . It is our sincere wish and prayer , and there is not wanting reason to hope that the deliberations of the Spanish may one day rival in importance those of the British senate . It will serve as a focus to ...
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... four standards . It was of the last im- portance , that such victories as that of Talavera , should be reward- ed by every tribute of honour and praise , that house could bestow . It had been the good fortune of Great Britain to unite a ...
... four standards . It was of the last im- portance , that such victories as that of Talavera , should be reward- ed by every tribute of honour and praise , that house could bestow . It had been the good fortune of Great Britain to unite a ...
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... four hours for the promised information : to decide , knowing nothing about the merits of the case : to say we know better than you , though we know nothing at all about the matter : to tell the sovereign , in effect , though you have ...
... four hours for the promised information : to decide , knowing nothing about the merits of the case : to say we know better than you , though we know nothing at all about the matter : to tell the sovereign , in effect , though you have ...
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... four hours , it were better to vote for inquiry now , than de- lay such a vote for even twenty- four hours . The house was then on its trial before the world , and should lose no time in acquitting itself in the eyes of the country ...
... four hours , it were better to vote for inquiry now , than de- lay such a vote for even twenty- four hours . The house was then on its trial before the world , and should lose no time in acquitting itself in the eyes of the country ...
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... four successive divisions ? And if it were so to sail , on what data did they calculate that the wind and weather were to be ex- actly such as would favour the junction of the whole , at a given period , at the point of debarka- tion ...
... four successive divisions ? And if it were so to sail , on what data did they calculate that the wind and weather were to be ex- actly such as would favour the junction of the whole , at a given period , at the point of debarka- tion ...
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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.