The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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... Dutch fleets were Van Trump , De Ruyter , and De Witt , the most celebrated names of their own nation , and who had been perhaps more renowned , had they been opposed by any other enemies . The States of Holland , having carried on ...
... Dutch fleets were Van Trump , De Ruyter , and De Witt , the most celebrated names of their own nation , and who had been perhaps more renowned , had they been opposed by any other enemies . The States of Holland , having carried on ...
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... Dutch admiral saluted him with three single shots , to require that he should , by striking his flag , shew that respect to the English , which is due to every nation in their own dominions ; to which the Dutchman answered with a ...
... Dutch admiral saluted him with three single shots , to require that he should , by striking his flag , shew that respect to the English , which is due to every nation in their own dominions ; to which the Dutchman answered with a ...
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... Dutch fleet , being the mark at which they aimed ; and , as Whitlock relates , received above a thou- sand shot . Blake , in his letter , acknowledges the particular blessing and preservation of God , and ascribes his success to the ...
... Dutch fleet , being the mark at which they aimed ; and , as Whitlock relates , received above a thou- sand shot . Blake , in his letter , acknowledges the particular blessing and preservation of God , and ascribes his success to the ...
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... Dutch , instead of tacking about , hoisted their sails , steered toward their own coast , and finding themselves the next day followed by the whole English fleet , retired into Goree . The sailors were eager to attack them in their own ...
... Dutch , instead of tacking about , hoisted their sails , steered toward their own coast , and finding themselves the next day followed by the whole English fleet , retired into Goree . The sailors were eager to attack them in their own ...
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... Dutch fleet was therefore sustained by about twenty - two ships . Two of the English frigates , named the Vanguard and the Vic- tory , after having for a long time stood engaged amidst the whole Dutch fleet , broke through with- out ...
... Dutch fleet was therefore sustained by about twenty - two ships . Two of the English frigates , named the Vanguard and the Vic- tory , after having for a long time stood engaged amidst the whole Dutch fleet , broke through with- out ...
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Página 338 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness, by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look, with pleasure, upon every act of virtue, to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Página 377 - We had a passage of about twelve miles to the point where resided, having come from his seat in the middle of the island to a small house on the shore, as we believe, that he might with less reproach entertain us meanly. If he aspired to meanness, his retrograde ambition was completely gratified, but he did not succeed equally in escaping reproach. He had no cook, nor I suppose much provision, nor had the lady the common decencies of her tea-table: we picked up our sugar with our fingers. Boswell...
Página 435 - I am sitting down in no cheerful solitude to write a narrative which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution of regard however, I know not whether I ought to blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know, and I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have never done you evil.
Página 280 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.
Página 284 - ... and had^[ lately declared, that " the whole world was made for man, " but only the twelfth part of man for woman ;" and, that " man is the whole world, but woman only " the rib or crooked part of man.
Página 378 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 287 - Happy are they which live not in that disadvantage of time, when men could say little for futurity, but from reason...
Página 287 - In 1658 the discovery of some ancient urns in Norfolk gave him occasion to write Hydriotaphia, Urn-burial, or a Discourse of sepulchral Urns, in which he treats with his usual learning on the funeral rites of the ancient nations ; exhibits their various treatment of the dead ; and examines the substances found in his Norfolcian urns.
Página 301 - His memory, though not so eminent as that of Seneca or Scaliger, was capacious and tenacious, insomuch as he remembered all that was remarkable in any book that he had read...