The European Magazine, and London Review, Band 36Philological Society of London, 1799 |
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... guns , Wilfon , mafter , bound from Jersey to Portfmouth . The weather being very thick , fhe ftruck upon a funken rock near Grange Chine , the back of the Ifle of Wight , at which place the General Goddard Indiaman was loft a few years ...
... guns , Wilfon , mafter , bound from Jersey to Portfmouth . The weather being very thick , fhe ftruck upon a funken rock near Grange Chine , the back of the Ifle of Wight , at which place the General Goddard Indiaman was loft a few years ...
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... guns , difperfed them , but not till several fhot had been fired from the fix pounders ; they how- ever wounded many of the troops before they got to Madadoffa's garden , from whence a smart firing of match - locks was kept up , as well ...
... guns , difperfed them , but not till several fhot had been fired from the fix pounders ; they how- ever wounded many of the troops before they got to Madadoffa's garden , from whence a smart firing of match - locks was kept up , as well ...
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... guns , by the Ann cutter , Lieut . R. Young ; and a letter from the Earl of St. Vincent ftates the capture of a French privateer , of three guns , by the floop Transfer , Lieutenant : Geo . Miller . ADMIRALTY - OFFICE , JUNE 1 . A ...
... guns , by the Ann cutter , Lieut . R. Young ; and a letter from the Earl of St. Vincent ftates the capture of a French privateer , of three guns , by the floop Transfer , Lieutenant : Geo . Miller . ADMIRALTY - OFFICE , JUNE 1 . A ...
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... guns on the Lago Maggiore . Col. Prince Victor of Rohan pushed forward with the corps of about 2000 men as far as the Lake of Como , where he took one gunboat , and obliged the enemy to burn two others . Being fupported by the peasants ...
... guns on the Lago Maggiore . Col. Prince Victor of Rohan pushed forward with the corps of about 2000 men as far as the Lake of Como , where he took one gunboat , and obliged the enemy to burn two others . Being fupported by the peasants ...
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... guns . After this laft attack , the enemy withdrew in the night between the 15th and 16th with fuch precipitation , and had loft fo much ground , that when this account came away , Field Marshal Hotze was already at Sargans ; at the ...
... guns . After this laft attack , the enemy withdrew in the night between the 15th and 16th with fuch precipitation , and had loft fo much ground , that when this account came away , Field Marshal Hotze was already at Sargans ; at the ...
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Seite 6 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Seite 92 - The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn." Chorus. — " Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he,
Seite 169 - Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection in this obscure part of the world a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not.
Seite 91 - About sunset, however, as I was preparing to pass the night in this manner, and had turned my horse loose that he might graze at liberty, a woman, returning from the labours of the field, stopped to observe me, and perceiving that I was weary and dejected, inquired into my situation, which I briefly explained to her; whereupon, with looks of great compassion, she took up my saddle and bridle and told me to follow her. Having conducted me into her hut, she lighted...
Seite 415 - A letter, of which the following is a copy, has been this day received from the Right...
Seite 91 - I was regarded with astonishment and fear, and was obliged to sit all day without victuals in the shade of a tree; and the night threatened to be very uncomfortable, for the wind rose, and there was great appearance of a heavy rain; and the wild beasts are so very numerous in the neighbourhood that I should have been under the necessity of climbing up the tree, and resting among the branches.
Seite 169 - All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I confess that my spirits began to fail me. I considered my fate as certain, and that I had no alternative, but to lie down and perish.
Seite 271 - ... short time till their arrival ; I accordingly landed the boats at the mole, and took the crews up to the breach, armed with pikes. The enthusiastic gratitude of the Turks, men, women, and children, at the sight of such a reinforcement, at such a time, is not to be described.
Seite 278 - If, where all behaved nobly, it is proper to mention individual merit, I know no man so justly entitled to praise as Colonel Sherbrooke, to whose exertions I feel myself much indebted for the success of the attack.
Seite 274 - I saved the life of the Arab from the effect of the indignation of the Turks, and took him off to the Tigre with me, from whence I sent him back to the General, with a message, which made the army ashamed of having been exposed to such a merited reproof.