The Annual Biography and Obituary, Bind 14Longman., 1830 |
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... sent out , expressing his wish to capitulate . " This morning the capitulation was signed ; a copy of which I enclose , with the state of the garrison . * Our loss , I am happy to say , has been trifling ; one seaman killed , and ...
... sent out , expressing his wish to capitulate . " This morning the capitulation was signed ; a copy of which I enclose , with the state of the garrison . * Our loss , I am happy to say , has been trifling ; one seaman killed , and ...
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... sent out a truce to request our batteries would cease , and a capitulation was commenced and signed on the 28th , for the surrender of the town and its dependencies . The British and Austrian troops took possession the same day ; 120 ...
... sent out a truce to request our batteries would cease , and a capitulation was commenced and signed on the 28th , for the surrender of the town and its dependencies . The British and Austrian troops took possession the same day ; 120 ...
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... sent instance . Unhappily cut off at the age of forty - three , at the very moment when , by a fortunate and rare combination of circumstances , he became placed in a situation to which his talents and disposition were peculiarly ...
... sent instance . Unhappily cut off at the age of forty - three , at the very moment when , by a fortunate and rare combination of circumstances , he became placed in a situation to which his talents and disposition were peculiarly ...
Side 38
... sent out to perform , animating the natural strength of his fine constitution , could have kept the warm blood unvenomed in that benevolent heart ; could have preserved the bright health , which one hour glowed on that manly cheek , and ...
... sent out to perform , animating the natural strength of his fine constitution , could have kept the warm blood unvenomed in that benevolent heart ; could have preserved the bright health , which one hour glowed on that manly cheek , and ...
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... sent home for publication , this work lost great part of its interest ; but there are principles developed in it , which cannot fail to be of per- manent use to political economists ; and the satisfactory reasoning by which it explains ...
... sent home for publication , this work lost great part of its interest ; but there are principles developed in it , which cannot fail to be of per- manent use to political economists ; and the satisfactory reasoning by which it explains ...
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Side 395 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Side 133 - Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
Side 160 - Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods ; And time hath made thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in.
Side 268 - Thoughts on the English Government — addressed to the quiet good sense of the people of England...
Side 201 - Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: Biographical, critical, and political.
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Side 50 - In sciences kindred to chemistry, the knowledge of the nature of the alkalies, and the analogies arising in consequence, will open many new views; they may lead to the solution of many problems in geology, and shew that agents may have operated in the formation of rocks and earths which have not hitherto been suspected to exist.
Side 144 - For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this house, in gratitude for your many and eminent services, you have thought fit this day to offer us your acknowledgments; but this nation well knows that it is still largely your debtor. It owes to you the proud satisfaction, that amidst the constellation of illustrious warriors, who have recently visited our country...
Side 63 - The Bakerian Lecture, on some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the Chemical Relations of these Principles to inflammable Bodies.