The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, 第 25 巻

Edmund Burke

Longmans, Green, 1800

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• rcfirlent is withilraun and the Bombay ai nxy landed on the continent in order: 1
• Account of a child who had the ſmallpox in the womb: 5
• Merr and Tippoo Saib but Hyders whole army being in his way is unable: 10
• Smation and conduct of Aloodajee Dopa the Rajah of Berar General: 16
• Killed and Baillie with a ſmall number of Europeans sakon priſoners: 53
• Natural hiſtory of the inſert which produces the Gum Lacca: 69
• Account of the Mare Piccolo of Taranto of its ſhellfiſh: 86
• Letter from Sir Guy Carleton to his Excellency General Waſhington: 301
• Anecdotes of Charles the XIIth of Sweden From Letters Military: 16
• Extraet from the Confeffions of J J Rouffeau 25: 25
• Deſcription of the different nations in the preſidency of Bombay: 39
• Stare of parties at tke meeting of Parliament Debates on the Speech from: 86
• Some account of the chymical and pharmaceutical hiſtory of the: 104
• Obſervations on the damage done to arable land by carrying off: 113
• Account of the uſefulneſs of waſhing the ſtems of trees 123: 123
• for adding 10000 ſeamen to the number moved for by government for the ſervice: 126

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1 ページ - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth, in the bay of Fundy, to its source, and from its source, directly north, to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...

212 ページ - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.

1 ページ - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...

209 ページ - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.

212 ページ - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

212 ページ - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.

書誌情報

• 書籍名: The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, 第 25 巻
• 編集者: Edmund Burke
• 出版社: Longmans, Green, 1800