Annual Register, Volume 4

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Edmund Burke
Longmans, Green, 1800 - History
 

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Page 179 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 213 - Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
Page 179 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 276 - Nation soever, not to transport or carry any Soldiers, Arms, Powder, Ammunition, or other Contraband Goods, to any of the Territories, Lands, Plantations, or Countries of the said French King...
Page 271 - The field echoes from wing to wing, as a hundred hammers that rise, by turns, on the red son of the furnace.
Page 271 - Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, O maid of Inistore! Bend thy fair head over the waves, thou lovelier than the ghost of the hills; when it moves, in a sunbeam, at noon, over the silence of Morven! He is fallen! thy youth is low! pale beneath the sword of Cuthullin!
Page 282 - V. When the troops (hall be embarked, a veflel is to be furnifhed for the chevalier de St. Croix, brigadier in the king's army, to M. de la Ville, the king's lieutenant, to M.
Page 221 - Kingdom, or that he ought not to enjoy the same, here is his Champion, who saith that he lieth, and is a false traitor, being ready in person to combat with him, and in this quarrel will adventure his life against him on what day soever he shall be appointed.
Page 148 - Ossian then lived at the introduction of Christianity, as by all appearance he did, his epoch will be the latter end of the third, and beginning of the fourth century. Tradition here steps in with a kind of proof. The exploits of Fingal against Caracul, t the son of the King of the World, are among the first brave actions of his youth.
Page 203 - This humble prefent of no Partial Mufe From that calm Bower *, which nurs'd thy thoughtful youth In the pure precepts of Athenian truth : Where firft the form of...

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