Annual Register, Volume 59Edmund Burke 1818 - History |
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... whole . The doctrines above - men- tioned have been systematically and industriously disseminated amongst mechanics and manufac- turers , discharged soldiers and sailors , and labourers of all de- scriptions ; they have been incul ...
... whole . The doctrines above - men- tioned have been systematically and industriously disseminated amongst mechanics and manufac- turers , discharged soldiers and sailors , and labourers of all de- scriptions ; they have been incul ...
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... whole country waits the signal from London to fly to arms ! haste , break open gunsmiths and other likely places to find arms ! run all constables who touch a man of us ; no rise of bread ; no Regent ; no Castlereagh , off with their ...
... whole country waits the signal from London to fly to arms ! haste , break open gunsmiths and other likely places to find arms ! run all constables who touch a man of us ; no rise of bread ; no Regent ; no Castlereagh , off with their ...
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... whole of the transactions of the 2d of Decem- ber , your committee are firmly persuaded , that , however impro- bable the success of such a plan may appear , it yet was deliberately premeditated by desperate men , who calculated without ...
... whole of the transactions of the 2d of Decem- ber , your committee are firmly persuaded , that , however impro- bable the success of such a plan may appear , it yet was deliberately premeditated by desperate men , who calculated without ...
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... whole , it is a great satisfaction to your com- mittee to observe , that , notwith- standing the alarming progress which has been made in the sys- tem of extending disaffection and secret societies , its success has been confined to the ...
... whole , it is a great satisfaction to your com- mittee to observe , that , notwith- standing the alarming progress which has been made in the sys- tem of extending disaffection and secret societies , its success has been confined to the ...
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... whole extent of the plot , and the attempt was made in the way that was projected . Those formidable rioters fled at the very mention of a dragoon . They did not wait to see their horses ' heads at the top of a street , so admirable ...
... whole extent of the plot , and the attempt was made in the way that was projected . Those formidable rioters fled at the very mention of a dragoon . They did not wait to see their horses ' heads at the top of a street , so admirable ...
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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...