The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volumen2J. Dodsley, 1762 |
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... enemy . His army had known what it is to be beaten ; and it is no wonder , if a fort of wearinefs and defpair be- gan to creep upon them , after fuck an infinite train of unrewarded fa- tigues , when they faw that fo many wonderful ...
... enemy . His army had known what it is to be beaten ; and it is no wonder , if a fort of wearinefs and defpair be- gan to creep upon them , after fuck an infinite train of unrewarded fa- tigues , when they faw that fo many wonderful ...
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... enemy into that part , which pushed them back ; but the hereditary Prince of Brunfwick , who led the army of the ... enemy had prepared for them ; they made three attacks in the space of about two hours , and were every time repulfed ...
... enemy into that part , which pushed them back ; but the hereditary Prince of Brunfwick , who led the army of the ... enemy had prepared for them ; they made three attacks in the space of about two hours , and were every time repulfed ...
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... enemy's naval power , and cut away one great part of the refources which fed the war . A fquadron of nine fhips of the line with fixty tranfports , con taining fix regiments of foot , 1758. in the end of the last year failed for the ...
... enemy's naval power , and cut away one great part of the refources which fed the war . A fquadron of nine fhips of the line with fixty tranfports , con taining fix regiments of foot , 1758. in the end of the last year failed for the ...
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... enemy from their batteries and intrenchments . But on their land- ing , they found that the nature of the country proved a greater ob- ftruction to their progrels , than the ftrength of the enemy . Thefe profound gullies , inclosed by ...
... enemy from their batteries and intrenchments . But on their land- ing , they found that the nature of the country proved a greater ob- ftruction to their progrels , than the ftrength of the enemy . Thefe profound gullies , inclosed by ...
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... enemy's attention , the general fell upon the ftrong poft of Gofier , and poffeffed himfelf of it ; and thus the Grand Terre was in a manner re- duced , and difabled from fending any relief to the other part . There is a confiderable ...
... enemy's attention , the general fell upon the ftrong poft of Gofier , and poffeffed himfelf of it ; and thus the Grand Terre was in a manner re- duced , and difabled from fending any relief to the other part . There is a confiderable ...
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Página 486 - As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
Página 479 - ... at rest. I am hungry and thirsty like him, but when thirst and hunger cease I am not at rest ; I am, like him, pained with want, but am not, like him, satisfied with fulness.
Página 450 - Prepar'd to strike, to triumph, and to die. " Bring then to Britain's plain that choral throng; Display thy buskin'd pomp, thy golden lyre : Give her historic Forms the soul of song, And mingle Attic art with SHAKSPERE'S fire." " Ah, what, fond boy, dost thou presume to claim...
Página 310 - ... books, and had never spent an hour but in reading and writing: yet his humanity, courtesy and affability...
Página 310 - ... presenting them to the understanding, of any man that hath been known. Mr. Hyde was wont to say, that he valued himself upon nothing more than upon having had Mr. Selden's acquaintance from the time he was very young ; and held it with great delight as long as they were...
Página 430 - The misery of gaols is not half their evil, they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair.
Página 486 - By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.
Página 363 - I slept soundly till three o'clock, awaked, and then writ these lines : " ' Come, pleasing Rest, eternal Slumber, fall ; Seal mine, that once must seal the eyes of all. Calm and composed my soul her journey takes, No guilt that troubles, and no heart that aches. Adieu ! thou Sun, all bright like her arise ; Adieu ! fair Friends, and all that's good and wise.
Página 391 - East side of the Lake Ontario, a great many leagues from the Fall, you may, every clear and calm morning, see the vapours of the Fall rising in the air ; you would think all the woods thereabouts were set on fire by the Indians, so great is the apparent smoak.
Página 479 - The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy ; I long again to be hungry, that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the...