Annual Register, Volume 94

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Edmund Burke
Longmans, Green, 1853 - History
 

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Page 296 - Labrador; but so soon as the same or any portion thereof, shall be settled it shall not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure Fish at such Portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the Inhabitants. Proprietors, or Possessors of the ground.
Page 71 - the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
Page 296 - American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them.
Page 6 - Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Page 435 - The present Convention shall be in force for the term of Ten Years from the date hereof: and further, until the end of Twelve Months after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the Other of its intention to terminate the same...
Page 259 - Altesse Royale, en butte aux factions qui « divisent mon pays et à l'inimitié des plus grandes « puissances de l'Europe, j'ai terminé ma carrière « politique, et je viens, comme Thémistocle, « m'asseoir au foyer du peuple britannique.
Page 295 - Islands, on the Western and Northern Coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands...
Page 356 - I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever : And I do make this recognition and acknowledgment heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian, So help me God.
Page 307 - The Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece, from the earliest Accounts to the death of Augustus.
Page 141 - But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.

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