The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 36Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1799 - History |
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... himself with fo much honour in the fervice of the latter , thought it incumbent on him to refign the command of its armies , fooner than remain a fpectator of the evils which he fore- faw muft inevitably flow from the want of unanimity ...
... himself with fo much honour in the fervice of the latter , thought it incumbent on him to refign the command of its armies , fooner than remain a fpectator of the evils which he fore- faw muft inevitably flow from the want of unanimity ...
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... himself . Thus it exclufively depended upon him to regulate the motions of thefe troops ; which at his fole and uncontrouled option were to be made ufeful or inactive . This implicit confidence was gene- rally deemed very injudicially ...
... himself . Thus it exclufively depended upon him to regulate the motions of thefe troops ; which at his fole and uncontrouled option were to be made ufeful or inactive . This implicit confidence was gene- rally deemed very injudicially ...
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... himself and the troops under his command to the manage- ment of an ally who had given too many proofs that he would on all occafions confult his own ends ex- clufively , to merit that implicit confidence in his good faith and fair ...
... himself and the troops under his command to the manage- ment of an ally who had given too many proofs that he would on all occafions confult his own ends ex- clufively , to merit that implicit confidence in his good faith and fair ...
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... himself of the abilities and experience of many officers warmly attached to the royal family and the old go- vernment . It was of officers of this clafs indeed that the commit- tee principally confifted : and , what is alfo very ...
... himself of the abilities and experience of many officers warmly attached to the royal family and the old go- vernment . It was of officers of this clafs indeed that the commit- tee principally confifted : and , what is alfo very ...
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... himself in fo advantage- ous a pofition , that the French could not compel him to abandon it , until their approach towards Bruffels , in immenfe force , ren- dered all farther refiftance on his part equally vain and hopeless . Retiring ...
... himself in fo advantage- ous a pofition , that the French could not compel him to abandon it , until their approach towards Bruffels , in immenfe force , ren- dered all farther refiftance on his part equally vain and hopeless . Retiring ...
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