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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... once overthrew an imperial throne , and consigned its possessor to perpetual imprison- ment , were events singularly adapted to work upon the universal passion for wonder and novelty . " The details of the great events of the past year ...
... once overthrew an imperial throne , and consigned its possessor to perpetual imprison- ment , were events singularly adapted to work upon the universal passion for wonder and novelty . " The details of the great events of the past year ...
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... once . It was to be expected that the two great political parties would be divided as to the interpretation to be placed on these signs of the times , and that the Opposition should believe them to be the first fruits of ruin produced ...
... once . It was to be expected that the two great political parties would be divided as to the interpretation to be placed on these signs of the times , and that the Opposition should believe them to be the first fruits of ruin produced ...
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... once more opened by commission . There were some melancholy blanks in the ministerial ranks , more melancholy when considered in the light of subsequent events . Mr. Bright and Lord Clarendon were both absent from illness , the former ...
... once more opened by commission . There were some melancholy blanks in the ministerial ranks , more melancholy when considered in the light of subsequent events . Mr. Bright and Lord Clarendon were both absent from illness , the former ...
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... once to all his father's honours , and once more the great Conservative lawyer was found to be , as lawyers have been found more than once , the chief reliance of his party . His health , however , was such that he was forced almost ...
... once to all his father's honours , and once more the great Conservative lawyer was found to be , as lawyers have been found more than once , the chief reliance of his party . His health , however , was such that he was forced almost ...
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... once more to narrow the means of supplying the demand for land ; lastly , in a country which is almost exclusively agricultural , and does not offer to the adult Irishman that choice of professions and occupations which he can easily ...
... once more to narrow the means of supplying the demand for land ; lastly , in a country which is almost exclusively agricultural , and does not offer to the adult Irishman that choice of professions and occupations which he can easily ...
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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.
Page 232 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
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...