The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1814 - English poetry |
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... Sweden - there being no communication between these philosophers . Thus it should seem , that du- ring two years Dr. Priestley announced to the world more facts of real importance and extensive application , and more enlarged and ...
... Sweden - there being no communication between these philosophers . Thus it should seem , that du- ring two years Dr. Priestley announced to the world more facts of real importance and extensive application , and more enlarged and ...
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... Sweden . As it ap- peared to his mind , a more extra- ordinary act of diplomacy had never occurred than the treaty which our ministers had concluded with the government of Sweden . It was a treaty which promised · every advantage to ...
... Sweden . As it ap- peared to his mind , a more extra- ordinary act of diplomacy had never occurred than the treaty which our ministers had concluded with the government of Sweden . It was a treaty which promised · every advantage to ...
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... Sweden , or that they should not have taken measures to ascertain whether any change had taken place in that disposition before the useless dispatch of the transports . With respect to Russia , while he was fully disposed to concur in ...
... Sweden , or that they should not have taken measures to ascertain whether any change had taken place in that disposition before the useless dispatch of the transports . With respect to Russia , while he was fully disposed to concur in ...
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... Sweden were at that time neutralized by threats , and Spain by intrigue . Bonaparte had then great resources , and was at the head of a great army com- manded by many of the ablest generals in Europe . How different now ! Russia and Sweden ...
... Sweden were at that time neutralized by threats , and Spain by intrigue . Bonaparte had then great resources , and was at the head of a great army com- manded by many of the ablest generals in Europe . How different now ! Russia and Sweden ...
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... Sweden has not yet brought a soldier into the field to assist Russia in a mutual struggle ? This , I say , is a que . stion of much importance . I do not ask now for information ; but looking at the congratulatory address upon the point ...
... Sweden has not yet brought a soldier into the field to assist Russia in a mutual struggle ? This , I say , is a que . stion of much importance . I do not ask now for information ; but looking at the congratulatory address upon the point ...
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