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... fleet into the hands of Ad- miral Gambier , and returned to England . Sir Henry Clinton , who had embarked with 4,000 men for the relief of Rhode Island , had two other material objects in view , in one or both of which he might pro ...
... fleet into the hands of Ad- miral Gambier , and returned to England . Sir Henry Clinton , who had embarked with 4,000 men for the relief of Rhode Island , had two other material objects in view , in one or both of which he might pro ...
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... fleet arrived at the Dec. 238 . ifland of Tybee , near the mouth of the river Savannah , in fomething under a month . On the following day , the Commo- dore , with the greater part of the tranfports , got over the bar , and anchored in ...
... fleet arrived at the Dec. 238 . ifland of Tybee , near the mouth of the river Savannah , in fomething under a month . On the following day , the Commo- dore , with the greater part of the tranfports , got over the bar , and anchored in ...
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... fleet driven off from the coaft of New England by a vio lent hurricane , which afforded an opportunity for the departure of the French Squadron . British fleet detained at Rhode Island , to repair the da mages fuftained in the tempeft ...
... fleet driven off from the coaft of New England by a vio lent hurricane , which afforded an opportunity for the departure of the French Squadron . British fleet detained at Rhode Island , to repair the da mages fuftained in the tempeft ...
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... fleet at that port . He was , however , relieved from thefe difficulties and apprehenfions by a fingular fortune . The New England cruizers happened at that very period to take fuch a number of provifion veffels on their way from Europe ...
... fleet at that port . He was , however , relieved from thefe difficulties and apprehenfions by a fingular fortune . The New England cruizers happened at that very period to take fuch a number of provifion veffels on their way from Europe ...
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... fleet and army . Befides his original fquadron of twelve fail of the line , and those hips of great force and weight of metal , he was now accompa- nied by a numerous fleet of fri- gates , privateers , and transports , with a land force ...
... fleet and army . Befides his original fquadron of twelve fail of the line , and those hips of great force and weight of metal , he was now accompa- nied by a numerous fleet of fri- gates , privateers , and transports , with a land force ...
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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.