The Annual Register, Volume 117Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1876 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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... Court - Suez Canal ; Khedive's interests in it - Egyptian Finance - Abyssinian War- Colonel Gordon PAGE [ 242 CHAPTER V. RUSSIA . -Notes about St. Petersburg Conference - Expedition in Central Asia-- Annexation of Khokand - Saghalien ...
... Court - Suez Canal ; Khedive's interests in it - Egyptian Finance - Abyssinian War- Colonel Gordon PAGE [ 242 CHAPTER V. RUSSIA . -Notes about St. Petersburg Conference - Expedition in Central Asia-- Annexation of Khokand - Saghalien ...
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... Court of Common Pleas , which eventually decided against Mitchel and in favour of Moore ; Mitchel meanwhile having declared his intention not to attempt any defence , but to repeat his tactics in one Irish county after another , so as ...
... Court of Common Pleas , which eventually decided against Mitchel and in favour of Moore ; Mitchel meanwhile having declared his intention not to attempt any defence , but to repeat his tactics in one Irish county after another , so as ...
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... had given evidence himself in the trial by making statements of fact on his own authority to the jury ; and had been guilty of even worse conduct by palliating falsehood in the open court . 14 ] ENGLISH HISTORY [ 1875 .
... had given evidence himself in the trial by making statements of fact on his own authority to the jury ; and had been guilty of even worse conduct by palliating falsehood in the open court . 14 ] ENGLISH HISTORY [ 1875 .
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Edmund Burke. worse conduct by palliating falsehood in the open court . The Attorney - General , in replying to Dr. Kenealy , said that his speech was nothing less than an appeal from the judgment of a criminal court . But there had been ...
Edmund Burke. worse conduct by palliating falsehood in the open court . The Attorney - General , in replying to Dr. Kenealy , said that his speech was nothing less than an appeal from the judgment of a criminal court . But there had been ...
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... Court of Appeal detached from the House of Lords . Lord Chancellor Selborne , soon after his acceptance of office , introduced a measure sketched upon these lines , and in- tended to bring all our courts of law into homogeneous action ...
... Court of Appeal detached from the House of Lords . Lord Chancellor Selborne , soon after his acceptance of office , introduced a measure sketched upon these lines , and in- tended to bring all our courts of law into homogeneous action ...
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