Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 - 1809-10, Band 71805 |
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... body was effected during the night , and the remainder was safely put on shore in the course of the succeeding day , together with an immense quantity of muskets , uniforms , provisions , stores , and five pieces of cannon . But as the ...
... body was effected during the night , and the remainder was safely put on shore in the course of the succeeding day , together with an immense quantity of muskets , uniforms , provisions , stores , and five pieces of cannon . But as the ...
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... body of English marines to join the emigrants and royalists on the other , who being new clothed , presented the ... bodies . But the scheme had not been originally matured in the cabinet , nor was it attempted to be carried into ...
... body of English marines to join the emigrants and royalists on the other , who being new clothed , presented the ... bodies . But the scheme had not been originally matured in the cabinet , nor was it attempted to be carried into ...
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... body of troops , took post at St. Barbe , erected a chain of batteries across the peninsula , and vaunted " that he would shut up the royalists like so many rats in a trap . " This boast was but too speedily realised for the emigrants ...
... body of troops , took post at St. Barbe , erected a chain of batteries across the peninsula , and vaunted " that he would shut up the royalists like so many rats in a trap . " This boast was but too speedily realised for the emigrants ...
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... part of the order , but which should have a share in the government of the island , and a deliberate voice in all its internal concerns . " A body member in the present parliament for the town of Nottingham 20 ADMIRAL WARREN .
... part of the order , but which should have a share in the government of the island , and a deliberate voice in all its internal concerns . " A body member in the present parliament for the town of Nottingham 20 ADMIRAL WARREN .
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... body of this description could not be considered as in any respect derogatory to the ancient institution of the order , and would be conformable to what existed within the island till within a very few years . It is for the purpose of ...
... body of this description could not be considered as in any respect derogatory to the ancient institution of the order , and would be conformable to what existed within the island till within a very few years . It is for the purpose of ...
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Seite 90 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, Of the City of London...
Seite 106 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he •will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this house...
Seite 535 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Seite 119 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Seite 264 - Prepare for happiness ; bespeak him one Content indeed to sojourn while he must Below the skies, but having there his home. The world o'erlooks him in her busy search Of objects more illustrious in her view ; And occupied as earnestly as she, Though more sublimely, he o'erlooks the world. She scorns his pleasures, for she knows them not ; He seeks not hers, for he has proved them vain.
Seite 173 - ... appeared there, of an intention to excite disturbances in other countries, to disregard the rights of neutral nations, and to pursue views of conquest and aggrandisement, as well as to adopt towards my allies the Statesgeneral (who have observed the same neutrality with myself) meaiures -which are neither conformable to the law of nations, nor to the positive stipulations of existing treaties.
Seite 351 - That the authority of the sovereign of the neutral country being interposed in any manner of mere force cannot legally vary the rights of a lawfully commissioned belligerent cruiser.
Seite 164 - Indeed, under such extreme straitness and distraction labours the whole body of their finances, so far does their charge outrun their supply in every particular, that no man, I believe, who has considered their affairs with any degree of attention or information, but must hourly look for some extraordinary convulsion in that whole system ; the effect of which on France, and even on all Europe, it is difficult to conjecture.
Seite 365 - If war, it was necessary only to say so, and to refuse to fulfil the treaty. He now made the tour of Europe, to prove to me that, in its present state, there was no power with which we could coalesce, for the purpose of making war against France; consequently it was our interest to gain time, and, if we had any point to gain, renew the war when circumstances were more favourable. He said it was not doing him justice, to suppose that he conceived himself above the opinion of his country or of Europe....
Seite 555 - Greeks in this city, killed his wife, to prevent her from falling into the hands of the enemy, and then took poison, of which he died. Corinth was destroyed the same year which witnessed the destruction of Carthage...