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... ships over a bar which lay in their way , and that every thing in fuch an enterprize depended upon expedition , the troops were crowded , as circum- ftances would admit , into the gal- lies and fmall craft , which were lightened , by ...
... ships over a bar which lay in their way , and that every thing in fuch an enterprize depended upon expedition , the troops were crowded , as circum- ftances would admit , into the gal- lies and fmall craft , which were lightened , by ...
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... ship of the line in that quarter . The defect of intelligence ac- companied that of inftructions , or orders how to act . A French do- cument executed at Paris on the 28th of June , and publifhed at Martinico in the middle of Auguft ...
... ship of the line in that quarter . The defect of intelligence ac- companied that of inftructions , or orders how to act . A French do- cument executed at Paris on the 28th of June , and publifhed at Martinico in the middle of Auguft ...
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... ships of war farther within the bay , thereby to render the line more compact and firm , and in conftructing new batteries on those points of land which co- vered the entrance . The clofe connection , equal participation of danger and ...
... ships of war farther within the bay , thereby to render the line more compact and firm , and in conftructing new batteries on those points of land which co- vered the entrance . The clofe connection , equal participation of danger and ...
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... ships in the ports of either . The order for the feizure of the British veffels was in three days followed by another measure ftill more decifive , and which feemed as if it was intended by France to affix fuch a feal to her late de ...
... ships in the ports of either . The order for the feizure of the British veffels was in three days followed by another measure ftill more decifive , and which feemed as if it was intended by France to affix fuch a feal to her late de ...
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... ship the Victory . The two fleets came in fight of each other on the afternoon of the 23d of July . It appears from the movements and conduct , both then and after , of the French admiral , that he had no knowledge of the in- creafe of ...
... ship the Victory . The two fleets came in fight of each other on the afternoon of the 23d of July . It appears from the movements and conduct , both then and after , of the French admiral , that he had no knowledge of the in- creafe of ...
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Página 32 - It contains the history of a miracle, of creation and redemption; it displays the power and the mercy of the Supreme Being ; the probable therefore is marvellous, and the marvellous is probable.
Página 361 - Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral to will and require the High Court of Admiralty of Great Britain, and the Lieutenant and Judge of the...
Página 352 - Then the lord chancellor, by his majefty's command, faid : My lords, and gentlemen, It is his majefty's royal will and pleafure, that this parliament be prorogued to Tuefday, the fifth day of September next, to be then here holden ; and this parliament is accordingly prorogued to the fifth day of September next.
Página 330 - ¡rinds, tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great - Britain, called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and that a proportionable cefs, according to the ninth article of the treaty of union, be laid upon that part of Great-Britain called Scotland, 1,500,000!.
Página 27 - If, by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new; that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.
Página 151 - In fact, we never are satisfied with our opinions, whatever we may pretend, till they are ratified and confirmed by the suffrages of the rest of mankind. We dispute and wrangle for ever; we endeavour to get men to come to us, when we do not go to them.
Página 174 - With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail.
Página 28 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion.
Página 29 - This kind of writing, which was, I believe borrowed from Marino and his followers, had been recommended by the example of Donne, a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jonson, whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments.
Página 35 - Lost' has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.