Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 - 1809-10, 第 7 巻1805 |
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... rank of the commander . Towards the latter end of the same summer , the commodore was dispatched with a stronger * squa dron than heretofore , to his former cruising ground , and drove La Felicité , of forty guns , ashore on the Penmark ...
... rank of the commander . Towards the latter end of the same summer , the commodore was dispatched with a stronger * squa dron than heretofore , to his former cruising ground , and drove La Felicité , of forty guns , ashore on the Penmark ...
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... rank in a regiment raised among his constituents , in the borough of Southwark . It is painful to remark , that in the latter of these military bodies some disagreeable events have lately occurred , respecting which , as he has since ...
... rank in a regiment raised among his constituents , in the borough of Southwark . It is painful to remark , that in the latter of these military bodies some disagreeable events have lately occurred , respecting which , as he has since ...
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... rank of a field officer . It was in this capacity that Lieutenant - colonel Grey accompanied General Hodson , in one of those expe- ditions planned during the administration of the great William Pitt , and he commanded the 98thregiment ...
... rank of a field officer . It was in this capacity that Lieutenant - colonel Grey accompanied General Hodson , in one of those expe- ditions planned during the administration of the great William Pitt , and he commanded the 98thregiment ...
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... rank of colonel in the army , which was succeeded by the appointment of aid - de- camp to the King . Fortunately for the interests of a commercial and manufacturing country , no dispute occurred for some time to call forth the talents ...
... rank of colonel in the army , which was succeeded by the appointment of aid - de- camp to the King . Fortunately for the interests of a commercial and manufacturing country , no dispute occurred for some time to call forth the talents ...
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... rank of major - general . In the campaign of 1777 , notwithstanding the most strenuous efforts , Washington took the field with a raw army of no more than eight thousand effective men , with which he assumed a strong position at ...
... rank of major - general . In the campaign of 1777 , notwithstanding the most strenuous efforts , Washington took the field with a raw army of no more than eight thousand effective men , with which he assumed a strong position at ...
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90 ページ - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, Of the City of London...
106 ページ - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he •will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this house...
535 ページ - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
119 ページ - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
264 ページ - Prepare for happiness ; bespeak him one Content indeed to sojourn while he must Below the skies, but having there his home. The world o'erlooks him in her busy search Of objects more illustrious in her view ; And occupied as earnestly as she, Though more sublimely, he o'erlooks the world. She scorns his pleasures, for she knows them not ; He seeks not hers, for he has proved them vain.
173 ページ - ... appeared there, of an intention to excite disturbances in other countries, to disregard the rights of neutral nations, and to pursue views of conquest and aggrandisement, as well as to adopt towards my allies the Statesgeneral (who have observed the same neutrality with myself) meaiures -which are neither conformable to the law of nations, nor to the positive stipulations of existing treaties.
351 ページ - That the authority of the sovereign of the neutral country being interposed in any manner of mere force cannot legally vary the rights of a lawfully commissioned belligerent cruiser.
164 ページ - Indeed, under such extreme straitness and distraction labours the whole body of their finances, so far does their charge outrun their supply in every particular, that no man, I believe, who has considered their affairs with any degree of attention or information, but must hourly look for some extraordinary convulsion in that whole system ; the effect of which on France, and even on all Europe, it is difficult to conjecture.
365 ページ - If war, it was necessary only to say so, and to refuse to fulfil the treaty. He now made the tour of Europe, to prove to me that, in its present state, there was no power with which we could coalesce, for the purpose of making war against France; consequently it was our interest to gain time, and, if we had any point to gain, renew the war when circumstances were more favourable. He said it was not doing him justice, to suppose that he conceived himself above the opinion of his country or of Europe....
555 ページ - Greeks in this city, killed his wife, to prevent her from falling into the hands of the enemy, and then took poison, of which he died. Corinth was destroyed the same year which witnessed the destruction of Carthage...