Annual Register, Volumen25Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1800 |
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... Sea Horfe , and Captain Reynolds , of the Com- buftion fire - fhip . The feamen and marines , with the guns and pio- neers , immediately formed , and pushed forward , though it was near- ly dark , to Trincomale fort ; and the company of ...
... Sea Horfe , and Captain Reynolds , of the Com- buftion fire - fhip . The feamen and marines , with the guns and pio- neers , immediately formed , and pushed forward , though it was near- ly dark , to Trincomale fort ; and the company of ...
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... Seas would have been the destination of fuch an armament . It seems probable that nothing lefs than the numberless exigencies , and the various untoward events of the war , could have delayed the profecution of a defign which feemed ...
... Seas would have been the destination of fuch an armament . It seems probable that nothing lefs than the numberless exigencies , and the various untoward events of the war , could have delayed the profecution of a defign which feemed ...
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... sea with the utmost expedi- tion , in order to the prefervation of the expected Weft India con- voy : an object for which he was to encounter all hazards whatever ; but ftill with fuch a view to the vaft fuperiority of the enemy , as to ...
... sea with the utmost expedi- tion , in order to the prefervation of the expected Weft India con- voy : an object for which he was to encounter all hazards whatever ; but ftill with fuch a view to the vaft fuperiority of the enemy , as to ...
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... sea . The hard weather which came on in the beginning of September , accordingly frustrated all their views ; and abandoning all hope of intercepting the British con- voys , they were glad to get into port as foon as poffible . M. de ...
... sea . The hard weather which came on in the beginning of September , accordingly frustrated all their views ; and abandoning all hope of intercepting the British con- voys , they were glad to get into port as foon as poffible . M. de ...
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... Seas as would be capable stand . She took this opportunity of ruining their immenfe com- of failing with the Dutch fleet , in merce on that fide , and of effec- order to go north about , on her tually protecting our own , in- way home ...
... Seas as would be capable stand . She took this opportunity of ruining their immenfe com- of failing with the Dutch fleet , in merce on that fide , and of effec- order to go north about , on her tually protecting our own , in- way home ...
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Página 323 - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth, in the bay of Fundy, to its source, and from its source, directly north, to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Página 210 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Página 322 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their boundaries...
Página 323 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Página 207 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Página 322 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Página 210 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Página 210 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Página 322 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...