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... himself , and publifhed , could leave no occafion for any farther teftimony , with those who were but too much difpofed to liften to evidence fo correfpondent to their own opinions . It is cer- tain , that no degree of good go- vernment ...
... himself , and publifhed , could leave no occafion for any farther teftimony , with those who were but too much difpofed to liften to evidence fo correfpondent to their own opinions . It is cer- tain , that no degree of good go- vernment ...
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... himself too weak for the defigned pur- pofe , he concerted a plan of ope ration with the governor of the Havanna , towards the latter end of the year 1779 , in pursuance of ! which he was to be reinforced and fupported , by a ...
... himself too weak for the defigned pur- pofe , he concerted a plan of ope ration with the governor of the Havanna , towards the latter end of the year 1779 , in pursuance of ! which he was to be reinforced and fupported , by a ...
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... himself at Cape François . In the mean time , Commodore Walfingham had arrived from England at St. Lucia , with a few fhips of the line , and four regi- ments under his convoy for Ja- maica . The commander in chief , who was in the dark ...
... himself at Cape François . In the mean time , Commodore Walfingham had arrived from England at St. Lucia , with a few fhips of the line , and four regi- ments under his convoy for Ja- maica . The commander in chief , who was in the dark ...
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... himself , or to thofe in his immediate confidence . And when he took a great convoy from the French iflands under his pro- tection , it was ftill thought or ex- pected on all hands , that as foon as he had seen them fo far on their way ...
... himself , or to thofe in his immediate confidence . And when he took a great convoy from the French iflands under his pro- tection , it was ftill thought or ex- pected on all hands , that as foon as he had seen them fo far on their way ...
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... himself without many bruifes . Such are the happy effects of order and difcipline , that al- though the barracks and hofpital were blown down , the lofs fuftain- ed by the troops was very incon- fiderable ; and though the rapine of the ...
... himself without many bruifes . Such are the happy effects of order and difcipline , that al- though the barracks and hofpital were blown down , the lofs fuftain- ed by the troops was very incon- fiderable ; and though the rapine of the ...
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Страница 183 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Страница 164 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Страница 326 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Страница 142 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
Страница 41 - Coffimbuzar and Jellinghy rivers, 'unite and form what is afterwards named the Hoogly River, which is the port of Calcutta, and the only branch of the Ganges that is commonly navigated by (hips.
Страница 2 - ... without being checked either by the prejudices of education or by the clamours of the multitude.
Страница 2 - In the life of Augustus, we behold the tyrant of the republic converted, almost by imperceptible degrees, into the father of his country and of human kind.
Страница 194 - ... or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner : when he descends from his Platonic abstractions, his refinements of passion, his exaggerated compliments, and his play upon opposite sentiments, into a track of tenderness, simplicity, and nature. Petrarch would have been a better poet had he been a worse scholar. Our author's mind was not too much overlaid by learning.
Страница 215 - Venice, returned early in 1715, and was appointed one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to the prince of Wales. In the first parliament of this reign he was elected for the borough of St.
Страница 52 - Calcutta it sometimes occasions an instantaneous rise of five feet ; and both here, and in every other part of its track, the boats, on its approach, immediately quit the shore, and make for safety to the middle of the river.