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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... England . Moreover , though emigration had decreased , an immigration of American - Irish had set in , and the use of arms at party processions had not fallen off . For these and other reasons , the Government asked for a renewal for ...
... England . Moreover , though emigration had decreased , an immigration of American - Irish had set in , and the use of arms at party processions had not fallen off . For these and other reasons , the Government asked for a renewal for ...
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... England and America , where funds were still being raised for the purchase of arms , " that the Government are asking for excessive powers when they ask that means shall be taken to prevent unlicensed persons from being in possession of ...
... England and America , where funds were still being raised for the purchase of arms , " that the Government are asking for excessive powers when they ask that means shall be taken to prevent unlicensed persons from being in possession of ...
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... England and in Ireland ; but the peculiarity of crime in Ireland is this , -in England crime is an attack on the part of an individual on other individuals ; but , in Ireland , it is an attack by society , or by a large part of society ...
... England and in Ireland ; but the peculiarity of crime in Ireland is this , -in England crime is an attack on the part of an individual on other individuals ; but , in Ireland , it is an attack by society , or by a large part of society ...
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... England ? And that was the place to explain the too tender susceptibility of Irish members . It had been asked why could they not discuss the Bill as calmly as the Artisans Dwellings Bill ? Their answer was this that so long as a single ...
... England ? And that was the place to explain the too tender susceptibility of Irish members . It had been asked why could they not discuss the Bill as calmly as the Artisans Dwellings Bill ? Their answer was this that so long as a single ...
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... England had passed through at the beginning of the century the Government never resorted to any such Arms Act as now existed in Ireland ; and to those who maintained that the right to carry arms was not a right of nature , he replied ...
... England had passed through at the beginning of the century the Government never resorted to any such Arms Act as now existed in Ireland ; and to those who maintained that the right to carry arms was not a right of nature , he replied ...
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