Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Band 7,Ausgabe 60 -Band 9,Ausgabe 86William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1845 |
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... manner for some important service to his country . " This was but the common feeling of the colony ; and it was in accordance with this feeling that , the legislature having made a grant of £ 40,000 to be employed in fresh military pre ...
... manner for some important service to his country . " This was but the common feeling of the colony ; and it was in accordance with this feeling that , the legislature having made a grant of £ 40,000 to be employed in fresh military pre ...
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... manner for some important service to his country . " This was but the common feeling of the colony ; and it was in accordance with this feeling that , the legislature having made a grant of £ 40,000 to be employed in fresh military pre ...
... manner for some important service to his country . " This was but the common feeling of the colony ; and it was in accordance with this feeling that , the legislature having made a grant of £ 40,000 to be employed in fresh military pre ...
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... manner as to be unintelligible to any party not in the secret . When , however , Arnold was invested with the command of West Point , he made proposals for delivering the fort up to the enemy , and it became necessary that André should ...
... manner as to be unintelligible to any party not in the secret . When , however , Arnold was invested with the command of West Point , he made proposals for delivering the fort up to the enemy , and it became necessary that André should ...
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... manner in which he had been brought within the American lines . " Against my stipula- tion , " he says , " my intention , and without my knowledge be- forehand , I was conducted within one of your posts . excellency may conceive my ...
... manner in which he had been brought within the American lines . " Against my stipula- tion , " he says , " my intention , and without my knowledge be- forehand , I was conducted within one of your posts . excellency may conceive my ...
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... manner received visitors on Fridays , from three to five o'clock , the president being always present at her levees . He never accepted any invitations to dinner ; but every day , except Sunday , he invited to his own table a number of ...
... manner received visitors on Fridays , from three to five o'clock , the president being always present at her levees . He never accepted any invitations to dinner ; but every day , except Sunday , he invited to his own table a number of ...
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Seite 6 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Seite 31 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Seite 12 - For his was the singular destiny and merit, of leading the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war, for the establishment of its independence ; of conducting its councils through the birth of a government, new in its forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train ; and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example.
Seite 2 - Let me hope, sir, that if aught in my character impresses you with esteem towards me, if aught in my misfortunes marks me as the victim of policy and not of resentment, I shall experience the operation of these feelings in your breast, by being informed that I am not to die on a gibbet.
Seite 21 - O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?' O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the King's right knee, 'Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever sailed the sea.
Seite 4 - Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind and never communicate, as from yourself or any one else, a sentiment of the like nature.
Seite 7 - I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
Seite 14 - And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind, Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind. The nurse's legends are for truths received, And the man dreams but what the boy believed.
Seite 28 - Fair is the crystal hall for me With rubies and with emeralds set; And sweet the music of the sea Shall sing, when we for love are met. " How sweet to dance with gliding feet Along the level tide so green, Responsive to the cadence sweet That breathes along the moonlight scene...