The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., Volume 10G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1790 - English poetry |
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... effect among the people to whom it was ad dreffed . In learning he ftood upon a level with fome of the most celebrated of his contemporaries ; but it is impoffible to fpeak with approbation of his fpirit and temper . There was a ...
... effect among the people to whom it was ad dreffed . In learning he ftood upon a level with fome of the most celebrated of his contemporaries ; but it is impoffible to fpeak with approbation of his fpirit and temper . There was a ...
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... effect upon the majori- ty of the affembly , did not altoge- ther fupprefs the effects of the pre- valent difpofition . The marquis de la Fayette , a young nobleman , who had appeared as a volunteer in the caufe of civil liberty upon ...
... effect upon the majori- ty of the affembly , did not altoge- ther fupprefs the effects of the pre- valent difpofition . The marquis de la Fayette , a young nobleman , who had appeared as a volunteer in the caufe of civil liberty upon ...
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... effect the downfall of a rival , had outrun the patriotifm which fhould have medi- tated the welfare of their country . But it was in vain that the rapidity of the vortex in which they were hurried along gradually fubfided . Neither the ...
... effect the downfall of a rival , had outrun the patriotifm which fhould have medi- tated the welfare of their country . But it was in vain that the rapidity of the vortex in which they were hurried along gradually fubfided . Neither the ...
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... effect of these united measures would be inadequate to the emergency . The king would there- fore be obliged to have recourfe to a measure more painful to him than all the reft , that of augmenting the amount of the impoft upon land ...
... effect of these united measures would be inadequate to the emergency . The king would there- fore be obliged to have recourfe to a measure more painful to him than all the reft , that of augmenting the amount of the impoft upon land ...
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... effect . The parlia- ments were originally courts of law only ; and , if the ambition of the Gallic princes of four preceding cen- turies had not moft violently en- croached upon the liberties of their fubjects , fuch they muft for ever ...
... effect . The parlia- ments were originally courts of law only ; and , if the ambition of the Gallic princes of four preceding cen- turies had not moft violently en- croached upon the liberties of their fubjects , fuch they muft for ever ...
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