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... continued for fome time ; and where he was re- ceived with all the magnificence peculiar to that court , and fo dif- ferent from the plainnefs and fim- plicity of his own habits , man- ners , and mode of living . His private life was ...
... continued for fome time ; and where he was re- ceived with all the magnificence peculiar to that court , and fo dif- ferent from the plainnefs and fim- plicity of his own habits , man- ners , and mode of living . His private life was ...
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... continued on the fame 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 ...
... continued on the fame 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 ...
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... continued to be amused for fome days longer , with the appearances of an expedition up the North River , which probably had not been at all intended . Thus ended the thort cam- paign in the Jerfies . These inef- fective attempts , by a ...
... continued to be amused for fome days longer , with the appearances of an expedition up the North River , which probably had not been at all intended . Thus ended the thort cam- paign in the Jerfies . These inef- fective attempts , by a ...
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... continued danger and horror . Numbers were bu- ried in their houfes ; and the dreadful uproar of the tempeft was intermixed with the groans of the dying , the cries of those who were incapable of dragging their maimed and wounded bodies ...
... continued danger and horror . Numbers were bu- ried in their houfes ; and the dreadful uproar of the tempeft was intermixed with the groans of the dying , the cries of those who were incapable of dragging their maimed and wounded bodies ...
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... continued long after to prevail , between the command- ers in chief by sea and land . Their dispatches teemed with ambiguity and jealoufy , which became more glaring by time . Diflike was rather more than hesitated ; and blame , on one ...
... continued long after to prevail , between the command- ers in chief by sea and land . Their dispatches teemed with ambiguity and jealoufy , which became more glaring by time . Diflike was rather more than hesitated ; and blame , on one ...
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Page 64 - ... 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 327 - Calcutta, it fometimes occafions an inftantaneous rife of five feet : and both here, and in every other part of its track, the boats, on its approach, immediately quit the more, and make for fafety to the middle of the river.
Page 322 - As a ftrong preemptive proof of the wandering of the Ganges from the one fide of the Delta to the other, I muft obferve, that there is no appearance of virgin earth between the Tiperah hills on the...
Page 263 - Hands no more than is necefl'ary to anfwer the current Payments and Expences of the Office. It appears to be cuftomary for the Receiver of the Firft Fruits, to detain in his Hands the Produce of the whole Year, until Eight or Nine Months after that Year is ended, befides receiving the current Produce of thofe Months ; and for the Receiver of the Tenths to detain in his Hands, for at...
Page 289 - Henry, Earle of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyal, betweene whom I finde very litle difference, I repute them (as before) for the two chief lanternes of light to all others that have since employed their pennes upon English poesie. Their conceits were loftie, their stiles stately, their conveyance cleanely, their termes proper, their meetre sweete and well proportioned, in all imitating very naturally and studiously their Maister Francis Petrarcha.
Page 243 - ... trade and navigation, the high contracting powers have antecedently agreed, and do engage to give to all other neutral powers, free leave to accede to the present treaty, and, after a thorough knowledge of the principles on which it rests, share equally in the obligations and advantages thereof.
Page 139 - Ihould produce in fuppoirt of the charge, and that he had agreed, that the papers offered by the accufer could not be admitted ; and the faid court having in another part of the faid trial...
Page 171 - ... and other warlike weapons, as well offensive as defensive, being then and there unlawfully, maliciously and traitorously assembled and gathered together...
Page 273 - Coming however, before us, they are, in our opinion, too important to be pafled over in filence ; we thought it our duty to point them out, that...