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... also attended with the fingular cir- cumftance of a letter from the Marquis de la Fayette ( whofe military conduct had placed him very high in the opinion of the Americans , as well as in their fer- vice ) to the Earl of Carlifle , chal ...
... also attended with the fingular cir- cumftance of a letter from the Marquis de la Fayette ( whofe military conduct had placed him very high in the opinion of the Americans , as well as in their fer- vice ) to the Earl of Carlifle , chal ...
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... also gave fuch exact information of the fitua- tion of two row gallies , which had been armed for the defence of the river , as afforded means after for cutting off their retreat , by any of those numerous creeks which in- terfect that ...
... also gave fuch exact information of the fitua- tion of two row gallies , which had been armed for the defence of the river , as afforded means after for cutting off their retreat , by any of those numerous creeks which in- terfect that ...
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... also the first means of information to that Admiral , as well as to the government of Ja- maica , where he was ftationed , of the commencement of hoftilities . As foon as Admiral Barrington received intelligence of the invafion of ...
... also the first means of information to that Admiral , as well as to the government of Ja- maica , where he was ftationed , of the commencement of hoftilities . As foon as Admiral Barrington received intelligence of the invafion of ...
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... also another mo- tive for his anxiety to bring on an engagement upon any terms what ever . This motive was founded in his inftructions . For although he did not for prudential reafons think fit to produce them on his trial , he made no ...
... also another mo- tive for his anxiety to bring on an engagement upon any terms what ever . This motive was founded in his inftructions . For although he did not for prudential reafons think fit to produce them on his trial , he made no ...
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... also ftated feveral parti- cular circumstances as facts , which in the course of the fubfequent ju- dicial enquiry were either not pro- perly fupported , or were over- thrown by direct evidence . Among the latter of thefe , the vice ...
... also ftated feveral parti- cular circumstances as facts , which in the course of the fubfequent ju- dicial enquiry were either not pro- perly fupported , or were over- thrown by direct evidence . Among the latter of thefe , the vice ...
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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.