The Annual Register, Volumen155Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1914 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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Página 17 - I.] and his progenitors, and the earls, barons, and other nobles of his said realm, and their ancestors, to inform them and the people of the law of God, and to make hospitalities, alms, and other works of charity...
Página 243 - State, to agree as a matter of policy to the abolition of the right of capture of private property at sea, is of course entirely distinct from the question of right.
Página 41 - Admiralty announced that the two naval men among them would be regarded as " killed in action," and that their story would long be remembered with honour by the Navy ; and in the House of Commons, in reply to a question by Mr.
Página 472 - ... dairying, fruit-growing and other industries along lines of investigation, research, improvement in transportation, markets and so on...
Página 260 - The landlord was no more necessary to agriculture than a gold chain to a watch.
Página 121 - Her father died when she was three years old, and her mother brought her up at Wiesbaden.
Página 208 - ... trade unions with a view to co-operative action in support of each other's demands.
Página 321 - In foreign politics the greatest achievement of Germany this year was the prevention of a. European War, which would in all probability have broken out if the Emperor William had not plainly declared on the one hand to Austria-Hungary that he would not support her should she be involved in a war with Russia as the consequence of an attack by her upon Servia, and on the other to Russia that if she attacked Austria-Hungary notwithstanding her abstinence from active intervention in the Balkans, he would,...
Página 161 - That this House is not justified in giving its consent to this Bill until it has been submitted to the judgment of the country.
Página 77 - Power to approach her so nearly as to be able to deflect or restrict her political action by purely naval pressure. Such a condition would certainly lead to war.