Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 94Pub. for J. Hinton., 1794 |
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Página 47
... army , fear- ing a flood , made a precipitate re- than the wind returned to the fame treat . They were no fooner gone point as before , the waters retired , and there was an easy access to the town for the people with provifions who ...
... army , fear- ing a flood , made a precipitate re- than the wind returned to the fame treat . They were no fooner gone point as before , the waters retired , and there was an easy access to the town for the people with provifions who ...
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... army and fleet , not only between the officers of all ranks , but between the feamen and foldiers alfo . I herewith tranfmit a copy of fir Sydney Smith's letter to me , with a lift of the of ficers employed under him , and alfo a re ...
... army and fleet , not only between the officers of all ranks , but between the feamen and foldiers alfo . I herewith tranfmit a copy of fir Sydney Smith's letter to me , with a lift of the of ficers employed under him , and alfo a re ...
Página 57
... army was now between 30,000 and 40,000jmen , and an attack upon our pofts was to be daily expected . Thefe , from their effential though detached fituations , had been feve- rally strengthened in the proportion their circunftances ...
... army was now between 30,000 and 40,000jmen , and an attack upon our pofts was to be daily expected . Thefe , from their effential though detached fituations , had been feve- rally strengthened in the proportion their circunftances ...
Página 58
... army . From our deficiency in artillery men , many of our batteries were worked by feamen : they , in part , guarded fome of our potts , and their aid was peculiarly useful in duties of fatigue and labour . In all these we found the ...
... army . From our deficiency in artillery men , many of our batteries were worked by feamen : they , in part , guarded fome of our potts , and their aid was peculiarly useful in duties of fatigue and labour . In all these we found the ...
Página 60
... army to affemble near Pondi- cherry , and having prepared and forwarded all the neceflary equipments for the liege ... army under colonel Brathwaite on the morning of the 23d imitant . As we forwarded this addrefs vià Bom- bay , we fhall ...
... army to affemble near Pondi- cherry , and having prepared and forwarded all the neceflary equipments for the liege ... army under colonel Brathwaite on the morning of the 23d imitant . As we forwarded this addrefs vià Bom- bay , we fhall ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 436 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Página 408 - Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm...
Página 408 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds...
Página 115 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Página 101 - Superstition, by which she endeavours to break those chains of benevolence and social affection that link the welfare of every particular with that of the whole. Remember, that the greatest honour you can pay to the Author of your being, is by such a cheerful behaviour as discovers a mind satisfied with his dispensations.
Página 360 - I. the court of king's bench, relying on some arbitrary precedents, and those perhaps misunderstood, determined that they could not upon a habeas corpus either bail or deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in case he was committed by the special command of the king, or by the lords of the privy council.
Página 114 - To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound one unto the drowsy race of night...
Página 359 - This is a high prerogative writ, and therefore by the common law issuing out of the court of king's bench not only in term time, but also during the vacation, by a fiat from the chief justice or any other of the judges, and running into all parts of the king's dominions ; for the king is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.
Página 407 - O but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
Página 410 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...