The Annual Register, Volume 112Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1871 - 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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... Paris - Fall of Laon , Toul , and Strasburg CHAPTER III . - FRANCE ( continued ) . The German Armies - King William at Versailles - Gambetta at Tours- State of Paris - Futile negotiations - Paris defences - Battle of Coulmiers- D ...
... Paris - Fall of Laon , Toul , and Strasburg CHAPTER III . - FRANCE ( continued ) . The German Armies - King William at Versailles - Gambetta at Tours- State of Paris - Futile negotiations - Paris defences - Battle of Coulmiers- D ...
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... Paris . " The extraordinary events of this new revolution " ( we quote again from the same preface , and leave our readers to make the necessary modifications for themselves ) , " have afforded subjects for narrative rendering the ...
... Paris . " The extraordinary events of this new revolution " ( we quote again from the same preface , and leave our readers to make the necessary modifications for themselves ) , " have afforded subjects for narrative rendering the ...
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... Paris , which was rejected by France as unsuitable to the case , and received by Prussia with the declaration that as France had taken the initiative in the war , Prussia could not take it in recommending mediation . Thus the ...
... Paris , which was rejected by France as unsuitable to the case , and received by Prussia with the declaration that as France had taken the initiative in the war , Prussia could not take it in recommending mediation . Thus the ...
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Edmund Burke. utmost by the crowd of unfortunate refugees whom the siege of Paris threw upon her shores , and for whom an organized committee of ladies worked with unflagging energy and great success . Such was the active participation ...
Edmund Burke. utmost by the crowd of unfortunate refugees whom the siege of Paris threw upon her shores , and for whom an organized committee of ladies worked with unflagging energy and great success . Such was the active participation ...
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... Paris , the lavish expender of the national millions , was no longer to be Prefect of the Seine . M. Chevreau , hitherto Prefect of the Rhone , was installed at the Hotel de Ville in his place . On the very day that the Corps Législatif ...
... Paris , the lavish expender of the national millions , was no longer to be Prefect of the Seine . M. Chevreau , hitherto Prefect of the Rhone , was installed at the Hotel de Ville in his place . On the very day that the Corps Législatif ...
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Page 225 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Page 227 - And here it is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
Page 268 - We teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed: That the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of Pastor and Teacher of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal Church...
Page 220 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 219 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
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Page 230 - Provided that every Minister so repelling any, as is specified in this, or the next precedent Paragraph of this Rubric, shall be obliged to give an account of the same to the Ordinary within fourteen days after at the farthest. And the Ordinary shall proceed against the offending person according to the Canon.
Page 295 - ... territory of the United States to Canada, and, further, should such an extreme measure become necessary, to suspend the operation of any laws whereby the vessels of the Dominion of Canada are permitted to enter the waters of the United States.
Page 221 - Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith : Which Faith except every one do keep whole and undented : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 181 - ... accessory to or conniving at the adultery of the other party to the marriage, or has condoned the adultery complained of, or that the petition is presented or prosecuted in collusion with either of the respondents, then the court shall pronounce a decree declaring such marriage to be dissolved : provided always, that the court shall not be bound to pronounce such decree if it shall find that the petitioner has during the marriage been guilty of adultery...