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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... nation anticipated a fatal bulletin ; absent members of the family were sent for to the sick bed ; the Queen's heart sickened at the sorrow which seemed to stare her in the face . But the blow was happily averted . When Parliament met ...
... nation anticipated a fatal bulletin ; absent members of the family were sent for to the sick bed ; the Queen's heart sickened at the sorrow which seemed to stare her in the face . But the blow was happily averted . When Parliament met ...
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... nation . He was glad to hear that measures were in con- templation for the amendment and improvement of the sanitary laws , as at present there was great confusion in the statutes on the subject , some of them conflicting with others ...
... nation . He was glad to hear that measures were in con- templation for the amendment and improvement of the sanitary laws , as at present there was great confusion in the statutes on the subject , some of them conflicting with others ...
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... nation so given to murder , crime , and infamy , and that their much - vaunted British Constitution was insufficient to cope with them , so long , he hoped , would Members be found to rise on those benches to tell them that it was an ...
... nation so given to murder , crime , and infamy , and that their much - vaunted British Constitution was insufficient to cope with them , so long , he hoped , would Members be found to rise on those benches to tell them that it was an ...
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... nation as the chief visible embodiment of the majesty of the law . The time is far distant when our judges will come to be regarded as merely the heads of a sort of legal department . The Judica- ture Act , in respect of the changes it ...
... nation as the chief visible embodiment of the majesty of the law . The time is far distant when our judges will come to be regarded as merely the heads of a sort of legal department . The Judica- ture Act , in respect of the changes it ...
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... we shall see something of the spirit which was then displayed , and that this country will combine with other nations for the maintenance of 15 the peace of Europe . " " My object in E2 1876. ] [ 51 Lord Russell on Foreign Affairs .
... we shall see something of the spirit which was then displayed , and that this country will combine with other nations for the maintenance of 15 the peace of Europe . " " My object in E2 1876. ] [ 51 Lord Russell on Foreign Affairs .
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