Annual Register, Volume 11Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 |
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Page 232 - That the levying money for the ufe of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for a longer time or in other manner than the fame is granted, is illegal : And whereas in the third year of the reign of the
Page 192 - (hare. Where they triumph, where they die'. As the paths of fate we tread, Wading through th' enfanguin'd field : Gondula, and Geira, fpread O'er the youthful King your fhield. We the reins to (laughter give, Ours to kill, and ours to fpare : Spite of danger he
Page 193 - drear abode. Him the dog of darknefs fpied, His fhaggy throat he open'd wide. While from his jaws, with carnage fill'd, Foam and human gore diftill'd : Hoarfe he bays with hideous din, Eyes that glow, and fangs that grin ; And long
Page 32 - It happened that a quarrel of this kind was on foot when Mr. Gilpin was at Rothbury, in thofe parts. But during the two or three firil days of his preaching, the contending parties obferved fome decorum, and never appeared at church together : at length, however, they met. One party had been early at church, and
Page 196 - long and gay * Lochlin plows the wat'ry way : There the Norman fails afar Catch the winds, and join the war ; Black and huge along they fweep, Burthens of, the angry deep. Dauntlefs on his native fands
Page 254 - 3. For defraying the charge for allowances to the feveral officers and private gentlemen of the two troops of horfe guards, and regiment of horfe reduced ; and to the fuperannuated gentlemen of the four troops of horfe guards, for
Page 262 - our royal will and pleafure to call a new parliament ; and do hereby further declare, that, with the advice of our privy council, we have this day given order to our chancellor of Great-Britain to
Page 249 - by the prince or fuch as enjoy the higheft offices in the (late, their decifions, in fpight of their own natural integrity, will have frequently an involuntary bias towards thofe of their own rank and dignity: it is not to be
Page 262 - And we being defirous and refolved, as foon as may be, to meet our people, and to have their advice in parliament, do hereby make known to all our loVing
Page 191 - in Scotland, faw at a diftance a number of perfons on horfeback, riding full fpeed towards a hill, and feeming to enter into it. Curiofity led him to follow them, till, looking through an opening in the rocks, he faw twelve gigantic figures refembling women ; they were all employed about a loom ; and, as they wove, they fung the following dreadful Song ; which, when they had