Annual Register, Volume 59Edmund Burke 1818 - History |
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... held firmly to the maintenance of laws which were regard- ed as the palladium of English liberty . The termina- tion of these disputes threw a degree of discredit upon the ministry , who , by the employment of spies , seemed to ...
... held firmly to the maintenance of laws which were regard- ed as the palladium of English liberty . The termina- tion of these disputes threw a degree of discredit upon the ministry , who , by the employment of spies , seemed to ...
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... held with the House of Commons , at which an Address to his Royal Highness was agreed upon , congratulating him upon his escape . The further proceedings upon this subject will appear in the Chronicle of the present year . On January ...
... held with the House of Commons , at which an Address to his Royal Highness was agreed upon , congratulating him upon his escape . The further proceedings upon this subject will appear in the Chronicle of the present year . On January ...
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... held by persons in the metropolis engaged in this conspiracy . Different measures of the most extensive and dangerous nature were resolved upon ; par- tial preparations were made for their execution , and various plans were discussed ...
... held by persons in the metropolis engaged in this conspiracy . Different measures of the most extensive and dangerous nature were resolved upon ; par- tial preparations were made for their execution , and various plans were discussed ...
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... held by persons in the metropolis engaged in this conspiracy . Different measures of the most extensive and dangerous nature were resolved upon ; par- tial preparations were made for their execution , and various p'a is were discussed ...
... held by persons in the metropolis engaged in this conspiracy . Different measures of the most extensive and dangerous nature were resolved upon ; par- tial preparations were made for their execution , and various p'a is were discussed ...
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... held in a state of per- petual agitation and alarm . The appointment of such public meet- ings in a variety of different places on the same day appears to be considered as the most effectual means of accomplishing the de- signs of the ...
... held in a state of per- petual agitation and alarm . The appointment of such public meet- ings in a variety of different places on the same day appears to be considered as the most effectual means of accomplishing the de- signs of the ...
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Page 326 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...
Page 255 - Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 326 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Page 315 - As the universe spreads its flaming wall : Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years, One minute of Heaven is worth them all...
Page 326 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 324 - Soften'd his spirit) look'd and lay, Watching the rosy infant's play : — Though still, whene'er his eye by chance Fell on the boy's, its lurid glance Met that unclouded, joyous gaze, As torches, that have burnt all night Through some impure and godless rite, Encounter morning's glorious rays. But, hark ! the vesper call to prayer, As slow the orb of daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air, From SYRIA'S thousand minarets...
Page 317 - Be this," she cried, as she wing'd her flight, " My welcome gift at the Gates of Light. " Though foul are the drops that oft distil " On the field of warfare, blood like this, " For Liberty shed, so holy is, " It would not stain the purest rill, " That sparkles among the Bowers of Bliss...
Page 209 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above a musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
Page 177 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character : he does not get his living honestly...
Page 177 - I think the system of morals and his religion as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is like to see, but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity...