Annual Register, Volume 49Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1809 - History |
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... nation . Other services might cut a greater figure in respect of acqui sition of territory , or other resour- ces , though not of a nature to call for the sort of honours and dis- tinctions merited by achievements of this kind . But in ...
... nation . Other services might cut a greater figure in respect of acqui sition of territory , or other resour- ces , though not of a nature to call for the sort of honours and dis- tinctions merited by achievements of this kind . But in ...
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... nation for whose interest the expedition was undertaken , and had proved to the world , in a man- ner not to be concealed or disguised , that French troops are inferior to British troops : And here , Mr. Windham thought it necessary for ...
... nation for whose interest the expedition was undertaken , and had proved to the world , in a man- ner not to be concealed or disguised , that French troops are inferior to British troops : And here , Mr. Windham thought it necessary for ...
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... an instance as this , was calculated to rouse a nation to emu . late the exploits of its ancestors . It was that fine ex- Mr. Windham having moved the same same resolutions as those moved in the house of peers 50 ANNUAL REGISTER , 1807 .
... an instance as this , was calculated to rouse a nation to emu . late the exploits of its ancestors . It was that fine ex- Mr. Windham having moved the same same resolutions as those moved in the house of peers 50 ANNUAL REGISTER , 1807 .
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... nation . The insatiable ambition as well as the insidious policy of the French government , though abundantly ap ... nations . The first regards , therefore , of the legislature , were demanded by the war as he had done those in which ...
... nation . The insatiable ambition as well as the insidious policy of the French government , though abundantly ap ... nations . The first regards , therefore , of the legislature , were demanded by the war as he had done those in which ...
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... nations , he would most readily give them . He then moved the first re- solution , which has been already stated ... nation imperatively required a great augmentation of the army . The country had a right to expect the accomplishment ...
... nations , he would most readily give them . He then moved the first re- solution , which has been already stated ... nation imperatively required a great augmentation of the army . The country had a right to expect the accomplishment ...
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