The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volumen2J. Dodsley, 1762 |
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... river St. Lawrence , her great efforts were to be made in Europe , fhe had two objects , the recovery of Hanover , and the invafion of these iflands ; in either of which if the fucceeded , there could be no doubt , but that it would ...
... river St. Lawrence , her great efforts were to be made in Europe , fhe had two objects , the recovery of Hanover , and the invafion of these iflands ; in either of which if the fucceeded , there could be no doubt , but that it would ...
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... river , not above three hundred feet over where it is wideft . One of these islands is called the Grand Terre ; the ... rivers in that fmall circuit , throw themselves into the fea ; many navigable by boats , for two . fome even for ...
... river , not above three hundred feet over where it is wideft . One of these islands is called the Grand Terre ; the ... rivers in that fmall circuit , throw themselves into the fea ; many navigable by boats , for two . fome even for ...
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... river , a body under General Wangenheim ; which extended to the town of Thornhaufen , where they were intrenched , and fupported by a confiderable artillery . He had the day before detached the He- July reditary Prince of Brunswick , 28 ...
... river , a body under General Wangenheim ; which extended to the town of Thornhaufen , where they were intrenched , and fupported by a confiderable artillery . He had the day before detached the He- July reditary Prince of Brunswick , 28 ...
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... river ; thus loing all the advantages which they had made in the campaign , and forced to retreat through a country differ- ent from that through which they had advanced , and in which they had taken no meafures to procure fubfiftence ...
... river ; thus loing all the advantages which they had made in the campaign , and forced to retreat through a country differ- ent from that through which they had advanced , and in which they had taken no meafures to procure fubfiftence ...
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... river St. Lawrence . This plan was very advifeable , as it tended to weaken by diftracting the refiftance of the enemy , and whilst we adhered to it , it was clearly impoffible for the French to main- tain their ground in any of these ...
... river St. Lawrence . This plan was very advifeable , as it tended to weaken by diftracting the refiftance of the enemy , and whilst we adhered to it , it was clearly impoffible for the French to main- tain their ground in any of these ...
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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...