Annual Register, Volume 29Edmund Burke 1789 - History |
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... These three principal objects , the affairs of Holland , of France , and of the Low Countries , have engroffed our ut- moft attention in treating the hiftory of the prefent year : we have entered into the refpective fubjects with care ...
... These three principal objects , the affairs of Holland , of France , and of the Low Countries , have engroffed our ut- moft attention in treating the hiftory of the prefent year : we have entered into the refpective fubjects with care ...
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... these propofitions , that of the stadtholder's giving up the right of nomination , and confe- quently all influence in the town fenates , it was conceived the exe- cutive power would have become totally inefficient in the ftate ; as ...
... these propofitions , that of the stadtholder's giving up the right of nomination , and confe- quently all influence in the town fenates , it was conceived the exe- cutive power would have become totally inefficient in the ftate ; as ...
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... these affertions be- ing then known to be the real state of things , and indeed foon after in- controvertibly established , this at- tempt at deception added no re- putation to the caufe , and leffened the opinion of its strength . Yet ...
... these affertions be- ing then known to be the real state of things , and indeed foon after in- controvertibly established , this at- tempt at deception added no re- putation to the caufe , and leffened the opinion of its strength . Yet ...
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... these amount in all only to nineteen , in the ftates of Holland , yet that there is no limitation as to the number of deputies which any town may fend , who are all equally members of that affembly , and have an equal right to fit and ...
... these amount in all only to nineteen , in the ftates of Holland , yet that there is no limitation as to the number of deputies which any town may fend , who are all equally members of that affembly , and have an equal right to fit and ...
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... these representations . The ftates of Holland followed up these proceedings with an order to the troops of the province to march immediately to the frontiers on the fide of Utrecht ; and , to ren- der them the more ftedfaft in the ...
... these representations . The ftates of Holland followed up these proceedings with an order to the troops of the province to march immediately to the frontiers on the fide of Utrecht ; and , to ren- der them the more ftedfaft in the ...
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