Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 - 1809-10, Volumen61804 |
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... assistance in my power to yourselves and families . " The patriotic spirit of volunteer service to resist the menaced invasion , which this year pervaded all ranks of Britons , is a glorious and triumphant page in the history of the ...
... assistance in my power to yourselves and families . " The patriotic spirit of volunteer service to resist the menaced invasion , which this year pervaded all ranks of Britons , is a glorious and triumphant page in the history of the ...
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... assistance , was now reduced to the necessity of seeing the fortress surrender ; for he had long beheld the signal of distress flying from the only part of the walls as yet undemolished , without being able to fur- nish any relief , and ...
... assistance , was now reduced to the necessity of seeing the fortress surrender ; for he had long beheld the signal of distress flying from the only part of the walls as yet undemolished , without being able to fur- nish any relief , and ...
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... assistance with his whole flect , and thus ha- zard the loss of all for the preservation of a few . Accordingly , on the morning of the 12th of April , a combat took place , which proved one of the most memorable and glorious recorded ...
... assistance with his whole flect , and thus ha- zard the loss of all for the preservation of a few . Accordingly , on the morning of the 12th of April , a combat took place , which proved one of the most memorable and glorious recorded ...
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... assistance . Having col- lected a few ships he immediately sailed thither , and blockaded the place by sea , while Colonel Braith- waite , who had acted as Governor when it was for- merly in possession of the English , and was acquaint ...
... assistance . Having col- lected a few ships he immediately sailed thither , and blockaded the place by sea , while Colonel Braith- waite , who had acted as Governor when it was for- merly in possession of the English , and was acquaint ...
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... assistance ; on which , after exchanging a few shot , the superior squadron drew off , and about sunset tacked and stood away . Great praise must be allowed to have been due to all the British officers and seamen on this occasion , the ...
... assistance ; on which , after exchanging a few shot , the superior squadron drew off , and about sunset tacked and stood away . Great praise must be allowed to have been due to all the British officers and seamen on this occasion , the ...
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Página 276 - In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand: With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork, and bending reed.
Página 8 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Página 288 - Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm...
Página 276 - The bright-ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Página 186 - Accordingly, on that day, he moved for leave to bring in a bill " for vesting the affairs of the East India company in the hands of certain commissioners, for the benefit of the proprietors and the public ;" and also a bill " for the better government of the territorial possessions and dependencies in India.
Página 190 - I cannot consider myself warranted to lay before the Prince of Wales an address purporting to invest his Royal Highness with powers to take upon him the government of this realm, before he shall be enabled by law to do so.
Página 282 - ... conversation to the ministry, who, provided the colonies would subject themselves, might after all, or might not, at their pleasure, make any alterations in the former instructions to governors, or propose in parliament any amendment of the acts complained of...
Página 288 - That it is the opinion of this committee, that his majesty is prevented, by his present indisposition, from coming to his parliament, and from attending to public business, and that the personal exercise of the royal authority is thereby, for the present, interrupted.
Página 297 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
Página 306 - In 1801 appeared a splendid edition, from the press of Bulmer, of " the Tragedies and Poems of Frederick Earl of Carlisle, Knight of the Garter,