The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volumen2J. Dodsley, 1762 |
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... received them , we cannot but fin- cerely pity a commander of fuch admirable talents , who by the error or the misfortune of a moment , loft an opportunity that would have ranked him for ever with the Marl- boroughs and Brunswicks . A ...
... received them , we cannot but fin- cerely pity a commander of fuch admirable talents , who by the error or the misfortune of a moment , loft an opportunity that would have ranked him for ever with the Marl- boroughs and Brunswicks . A ...
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... received , and in confequence of his orders , Ge- neral Wedel refolved to attack the Ruffians on their march . They had got to Zulichau , and di- uly 23. rected their courfe to Croffen in Silefia , to get before the Pruffian army and to ...
... received , and in confequence of his orders , Ge- neral Wedel refolved to attack the Ruffians on their march . They had got to Zulichau , and di- uly 23. rected their courfe to Croffen in Silefia , to get before the Pruffian army and to ...
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... received with tranfports of joy . In the mean time , the King of Pruffia , who was unable to prevent this ftroke , joined General Aug. 4. Wedel at Muhlrofe , and took upon him the command of the united armies . But ftill finding him ...
... received with tranfports of joy . In the mean time , the King of Pruffia , who was unable to prevent this ftroke , joined General Aug. 4. Wedel at Muhlrofe , and took upon him the command of the united armies . But ftill finding him ...
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... received but a few hours before . The terror was increased by the in- diftinct relation that foon followed , which gave them only to under- ftand that their army was totally routed ; that there was no account of the King , and that a ...
... received but a few hours before . The terror was increased by the in- diftinct relation that foon followed , which gave them only to under- ftand that their army was totally routed ; that there was no account of the King , and that a ...
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... war of three years , we had in effect been only acting on the defenfive . It was on the day on which Mr. Amherst took Aug. 14 . poffeffion poffeffion of Crown Point , that he received the agreeable 1759 . 31 For the YEAR 1759 :
... war of three years , we had in effect been only acting on the defenfive . It was on the day on which Mr. Amherst took Aug. 14 . poffeffion poffeffion of Crown Point , that he received the agreeable 1759 . 31 For the YEAR 1759 :
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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.
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Página 310 - ... books, and had never spent an hour but in reading and writing: yet his humanity, courtesy and affability...
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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.
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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...