The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 24J. Dodsley, 1800 |
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... ground . Some judicious and fuccefsful fal- lies , were likewife occafionally , though fparingly , made by the garrifon ; in one of which , they brought three pieces of cannon into the fortrefs , from a work which they had taken with ...
... ground . Some judicious and fuccefsful fal- lies , were likewife occafionally , though fparingly , made by the garrifon ; in one of which , they brought three pieces of cannon into the fortrefs , from a work which they had taken with ...
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... ground , or cover of any kind admitted of their approach , by fcattering parties of the neighbouring militia . The burning of that new and thriving fettlement ( although it did not contain many houses ) , and of the prefbyterian church ...
... ground , or cover of any kind admitted of their approach , by fcattering parties of the neighbouring militia . The burning of that new and thriving fettlement ( although it did not contain many houses ) , and of the prefbyterian church ...
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... ground until night , with- out advancing . The Americans , however , though inferior in ftrength , did not permit them by any means to hold their poft in quiet ; and a very confiderable and continual firing , without coming at any time ...
... ground until night , with- out advancing . The Americans , however , though inferior in ftrength , did not permit them by any means to hold their poft in quiet ; and a very confiderable and continual firing , without coming at any time ...
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... ground of hope , and an incitement to vigour , from the wide feparation which it had caufed of the British forces , and the confequent incapacity of their divided armies to fupport each 1 other . But the expectation of a ftrong naval ...
... ground of hope , and an incitement to vigour , from the wide feparation which it had caufed of the British forces , and the confequent incapacity of their divided armies to fupport each 1 other . But the expectation of a ftrong naval ...
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... ground being of the first co- lour , and the relief of the other ) , as a compliment to , and a fymbol of friendship and affection for their generous and magnanimous allies . It was , indeed , highly grievous , not only to native ...
... ground being of the first co- lour , and the relief of the other ) , as a compliment to , and a fymbol of friendship and affection for their generous and magnanimous allies . It was , indeed , highly grievous , not only to native ...
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Page 142 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the- lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
Page 183 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 326 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 273 - March, 1767, upon lands, 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 Scot, wnd, 1,528,568!.
Page 2 - Constantine we may contemplate a hero, who had so long inspired his subjects with love and his enemies with terror, degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch, corrupted by his fortune, or raised by conquest above the necessity of dissimulation.
Page 202 - Unless sometime some crumbs fell to his share, Which in his wallet long, God wot, kept he, As on the which full daint'ly would he fare; His drink, the running stream, his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground: To this poor life was Misery ybound.
Page 215 - Venice, returned early in 1715, and was appointed one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to the prince of Wales. In the first parliament of this reign he was elected for the borough of St.
Page 172 - Gilds her accomplifh'd work the female frame, With rich luxuriance tender, fweetly wild, And juft between the woman and the child.
Page 202 - Devising means how she may vengeance take, Never in rest, till she have her desire : But frets within so far forth with the fire Of wreaking flames, that now determines she To die by death, or veng'd by death to be.
Page 164 - You cannot bar my conftant feet to " trace " The woods and lawns, by living ftream, " at eve^ " Let health my nerves and finer fibres "•brace, «' And I their toys to the great children " leave : " Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can