New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 4Henry Colburn, 1815 |
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... considerable ex- tent in the south of Wales . The tolls , from the increased number of new roads and tra- velling , yield no inconsiderable sum yearly . The timber annually cut down for building £ 750,400,000 150,080,000 300,160,000 L ...
... considerable ex- tent in the south of Wales . The tolls , from the increased number of new roads and tra- velling , yield no inconsiderable sum yearly . The timber annually cut down for building £ 750,400,000 150,080,000 300,160,000 L ...
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... agricultural stock in Ireland , which , from the great number of farms and the export of an immense surplus of provisions , is of considerable value , cannot be taken at 6 . of Parliament ; Westminster - hall ; courts.
... agricultural stock in Ireland , which , from the great number of farms and the export of an immense surplus of provisions , is of considerable value , cannot be taken at 6 . of Parliament ; Westminster - hall ; courts.
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... considerable , and ap- pears to be becoming every year still more so ; the amount in wearing apparel has also increased in proportion to the increase of population . The several amounts under both heads , as stated in the Table , have ...
... considerable , and ap- pears to be becoming every year still more so ; the amount in wearing apparel has also increased in proportion to the increase of population . The several amounts under both heads , as stated in the Table , have ...
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... considerable time without taking any other food than a certain juice with which they mix the raspings of a bitter kind of wood . Twist , a Dutch writer , states , in his description of India , that it is not extraordinary for an Indian ...
... considerable time without taking any other food than a certain juice with which they mix the raspings of a bitter kind of wood . Twist , a Dutch writer , states , in his description of India , that it is not extraordinary for an Indian ...
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... considerable state of progress . It will contain an account of the most celebrated British and Fo- reign public libraries ; of eminent col- lections dispersed by public auction ; of British private libraries now existing ; with copious ...
... considerable state of progress . It will contain an account of the most celebrated British and Fo- reign public libraries ; of eminent col- lections dispersed by public auction ; of British private libraries now existing ; with copious ...
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Page 131 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 385 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 545 - Ministers, for the purpose of consulting upon Their common interests, and for the consideration of the measures which at each of those periods shall be considered the most salutary for the repose and prosperity of Nations, and for the maintenance of the Peace of Europe.
Page 543 - The High Contracting Powers, sincerely desiring to give effect to the measures on which they deliberated at the Congress of Vienna, relative to the complete and universal abolition of the Slave Trade, and having, each in their respective Dominions, prohibited without restriction their Colonies and Subjects from taking any part whatever in this Traffic...
Page 63 - ... posted on a height behind the village, was repulsed by the enemy's cavalry in repeated attacks. Our infantry posted behind Ligny, though forced to retreat, did not suffer itself to be discouraged, either by being surprised by the enemy in the darkness, a circumstance which exaggerates in the mind of man the dangers to which he finds himself exposed, or by the idea of seeing itself surrounded on all sides. Formed in masses, it coolly repulsed all the attacks of the cavalry, and retreated in good...
Page 353 - Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Committee appointed by the House of Commons to Inquire into the State of Mendicity and Vagrancy in the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood.
Page 235 - Yet if perchance remember'd, still disdain you 'em More than you scorn the savages of yore, Who painted their bare limbs, but not with gore. is a most extraordinary character. He dines every morning about nine. He sleeps almost naked ; he affects a perfect indifference to heat and cold ; and quits his chamber, which approaches to suffocation, in order to review his troops, in a thin linen jacket, while the thermometer of Reaumur is at ten degrees below freezing. His manners correspond with his humours....
Page 545 - This State shall be placed under the immediate and exclusive protection of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his heirs and successors.
Page 543 - May 1814, as well as of the Additional Articles of that Treaty, signed between Great Britain and France, desiring to render more efficacious the stipulations made thereby, and having determined by two separate Conventions, the line to be pursued on each side for that purpose, the said two Conventions, as annexed to the present Treaty, shall, in order to secure the complete execution of the above-mentioned Articles, have the same force and effect as if the same were inserted, word for word, herein.
Page 319 - Colonel Hammond to wait upon you, who was taken by a mistake whilst we lay before this Garrison, whom God safely delivered to us, to our great joy ; but to his loss of almost all he had, which the Enemy took from him.