The Annual Register, Volume 107Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1866 - Books Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... occasion vague but serious alarms in the public mind . Since that period those clouds have moved westward across the Atlantic , and have burst in a tempest , perhaps the wildest that ever devastated a civilized country - a tempest of ...
... occasion vague but serious alarms in the public mind . Since that period those clouds have moved westward across the Atlantic , and have burst in a tempest , perhaps the wildest that ever devastated a civilized country - a tempest of ...
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... occasion the noble lord entered very fully and with much ability into the details of the military organization and expenditure . Referring in the first place to the financial part of his subject , Lord Harting- ton explained that ...
... occasion the noble lord entered very fully and with much ability into the details of the military organization and expenditure . Referring in the first place to the financial part of his subject , Lord Harting- ton explained that ...
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... occasion , and to show him that the cost is not likely to exceed 3,000,000 . Still 3,000,000l . for our forts , in addition to the cost of heavy guns for our navy , is no doubt a very large sum , and I think the Committee will be of ...
... occasion , and to show him that the cost is not likely to exceed 3,000,000 . Still 3,000,000l . for our forts , in addition to the cost of heavy guns for our navy , is no doubt a very large sum , and I think the Committee will be of ...
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... occasion brought specially before the House of Commons on a motion by Mr. Marsh , when the policy henceforth to be pursued towards the dependencies of the empire , was distinctly stated by the Colonial Secretary . Mr. Marsh having ...
... occasion brought specially before the House of Commons on a motion by Mr. Marsh , when the policy henceforth to be pursued towards the dependencies of the empire , was distinctly stated by the Colonial Secretary . Mr. Marsh having ...
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... occasion being an appeal to the Government for information by Sir John Walsh , who referred to the steps already mentioned as having been taken by the United States ' Government , and which he regarded as almost equivalent to a ...
... occasion being an appeal to the Government for information by Sir John Walsh , who referred to the steps already mentioned as having been taken by the United States ' Government , and which he regarded as almost equivalent to a ...
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Page 292 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 86 - I do swear, that I will defend to the utmost of my power the settlement of property within this realm, as established by the laws : and I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure, any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...
Page 206 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 280 - April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...
Page 280 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Page 281 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 281 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 281 - ... needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God .always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 77 - God ; and in Public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments I will use the Form in ' the said Book prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered by lawful
Page 281 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.