Annual Register of World Events, Volume 41

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1801 - History

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Page 465 - And say, without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh ! what were man * a world without a sun.
Page 464 - Tyrants! in vain ye trace the wizard ring; In vain ye limit Mind's unwearied spring : What! can ye lull the winged winds asleep, Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep? No!
Page 212 - Union, that the charge arising from the payment of the interest and the sinking fund, for the reduction of the principal of the debt incurred in either kingdom before the Union, shall continue to be separately defrayed by Great Britain and Ireland respectively, except as hereinafter provided.
Page 33 - The column thus mounted the breach unmolested, and descended from the rampart into the pasha's garden, where, in a very few minutes, the bravest and most advanced amongst them lay headless corpses, the sabre, with the addition of a dagger in the other hand, proving more than a match for the bayonet...
Page 457 - Mercy's voice has hush'd the blast. The wind is heard in whispers low ; The White Man, far away must go ; — • But ever in his heart will. bear Remembrance of the Negro's care.
Page 100 - Sultaun that he caused immediate search to be made for his body, which, after much difficulty, was found, late in the evening, in one of the gates, under a heap of slain, and soon after placed in the palace. The corpse was the next day recognised by the family, and interred, with the honours due to his rank, in the mausoleum of his father.
Page 100 - Sultaun, that he caufed immediate fearch to be made for his body, which, after much difficulty, was found late in the evening in one of the gates, under a heap of the flain, and foon after placed in the Palace.
Page 210 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom, by the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 306 - The gaol is infpedled twice every week by twelve perfons appointed for that purpofe, who are chofen annually from amongft the citizens of Philadelphia. Nor is it a difficult matter to procure thefe men, who readily and voluntarily take it upon them to go through the troublefome functions of the office without any fee or emolument whatever.
Page 461 - Where history's traced with the pen of a Varro, And Elvira in black, and Alonzo in white, Put an end to the piece by killing Pizarro.

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