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... Conduct , relative to the Affairs of Ireland · • Letter to John Merlott , Esq . , an eminent Merchant of Bristol , dated April , 1780 , on the same subject as the preceding Letter Letters ( to the Lord Chancellor , to the Earl Bathurst ...
... Conduct , relative to the Affairs of Ireland · • Letter to John Merlott , Esq . , an eminent Merchant of Bristol , dated April , 1780 , on the same subject as the preceding Letter Letters ( to the Lord Chancellor , to the Earl Bathurst ...
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... conducting Rag naut Row to Poona on the application of the ruling part the Mahratta state ; " whereas the main object of the sa treaty on the part of the Mahrattas , and to obtain whi they made many important concessions to the India Co ...
... conducting Rag naut Row to Poona on the application of the ruling part the Mahratta state ; " whereas the main object of the sa treaty on the part of the Mahrattas , and to obtain whi they made many important concessions to the India Co ...
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... conduct he had departed from the common line of policy , and had made advances where others in his situation would have waited for solicitation ; that the said unjust and dan- gerous projects did not take effect , because the Rajah of ...
... conduct he had departed from the common line of policy , and had made advances where others in his situation would have waited for solicitation ; that the said unjust and dan- gerous projects did not take effect , because the Rajah of ...
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... conducted on principles so dishonourable to the British name and character , that the secret committee of the House of Commons , by whom the rest of the proceedings in that business were reported to the House , have upon due ...
... conducted on principles so dishonourable to the British name and character , that the secret committee of the House of Commons , by whom the rest of the proceedings in that business were reported to the House , have upon due ...
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... conduct him to Poona , and to establish him in the regency there ; " and , so far from communicating his change of plan to Bombay , did keep it concealed from that presidency , insomuch that , even so late as the 19th of Febru- ary ...
... conduct him to Poona , and to establish him in the regency there ; " and , so far from communicating his change of plan to Bombay , did keep it concealed from that presidency , insomuch that , even so late as the 19th of Febru- ary ...
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Page 541 - CHAUCER'S Poetical Works. With Poems formerly attributed to him. With a Memoir, Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, by R. Bell. Improved edition, with Preliminary Essay by Rev.
Page 121 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like jne. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
Page 541 - Vol. I. — Essays, Lectures, and Poems. Vol. II.— English Traits, Nature, and Conduct of Life. Vol. III.— Society and Solitude — Letters and Social Aims — Miscellaneous Papers (hitherto uncollected)— May-Day, &c. FOSTER'S (John) Life and Correspondence. Edit. by JE Ryland. Portrait. 2 vols. -Lectures at Broadmead Chapel. Edit. by JE Ryland. » vols. Critical Essays contributed to the
Page 181 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 545 - SCHILLER'S WORKS continued. II.— History of the Revolt in the Netherlands, the Trials of Counts Egmont and Horn, the Siege of Antwerp, and the Disturbances in France preceding the Reign of Henry IV.
Page 135 - ... of the low fat Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...