Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Bind 7James Maxwell, 1816 |
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Side 297
... John Bull could not understand them , and no harm would be done . But - and " there's the rub " -we Americans can understand and read English , though it seems we cant write it , and consequently can expose these unblushing bravadoes ...
... John Bull could not understand them , and no harm would be done . But - and " there's the rub " -we Americans can understand and read English , though it seems we cant write it , and consequently can expose these unblushing bravadoes ...
Side 298
... John Bull in a good humour , we are unable to say . But we cannot forbear giving an opi- nion that it is ill - judged - he ought to have saved it for a Bonne - bouche , at the last , and then his guests might possibly have risen from ...
... John Bull in a good humour , we are unable to say . But we cannot forbear giving an opi- nion that it is ill - judged - he ought to have saved it for a Bonne - bouche , at the last , and then his guests might possibly have risen from ...
Side 301
... John Bull , who has passed from a most exalted contempt , to a most degrading admiration of our prow- ess , which he demonstrates every day by abusing us manfully , calling us " bastards , " and devising very ingenious excuses , for ...
... John Bull , who has passed from a most exalted contempt , to a most degrading admiration of our prow- ess , which he demonstrates every day by abusing us manfully , calling us " bastards , " and devising very ingenious excuses , for ...
Side 302
... John Bull called for his two - foot rule , and began to measure the length , and breadth , and thickness of his unfortunate ves- sels , and found that our frigates were a match for his seventy- fours , a discovery which delighted the ...
... John Bull called for his two - foot rule , and began to measure the length , and breadth , and thickness of his unfortunate ves- sels , and found that our frigates were a match for his seventy- fours , a discovery which delighted the ...
Side 304
... John Bull that comes down to Plymouth is fully convinced that our frigates are in reality se- venty - fours in disguise . It is no small triumph to have driven the British government to such miserable shifts to keep up the credit of its ...
... John Bull that comes down to Plymouth is fully convinced that our frigates are in reality se- venty - fours in disguise . It is no small triumph to have driven the British government to such miserable shifts to keep up the credit of its ...
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Side 357 - Then stay'd the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things. One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world.
Side 281 - ... intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves...
Side 74 - BRIGHT be the place of thy soul ! No lovelier spirit than thine E'er burst from its mortal control, In the orbs of the blessed to shine. On earth thou wert all but divine, As thy soul shall immortally be ; And our sorrow may cease to repine, When we know that thy God is with thee.
Side 199 - I have the honour to be, with the highest respect, Sir, Your most obedient, humble Servant, JAMES BRYCE The Honourable ROBERT BACON, Secretary of State.
Side 281 - In 1803, the act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes being about to expire, some modifications of it were recommended to Congress by a confidential message of January 18, and an extension of its views to the Indians on the Missouri.
Side 281 - ... of youth and a passion for more dazzling pursuits, he engaged as a volunteer in the body of militia which were called out by General Washington on occasion of the discontents produced by the excise taxes in the western parts of the United States, and from that situation he was removed to the regular service as a lieutenant in the line. At twenty-three he was promoted to a captaincy; and, always attracting the first attention where punctuality and fidelity were requisite, he was appointed paymaster...
Side 293 - ' to provide for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States...
Side 234 - ... show; the miser, when he hugs his gold ; the courtier, who builds his hopes upon a smile : the savage, who paints his idol with blood ; the slave, who worships a tyrant, or the tyrant, who fancies himself a god ; — the vain, the ambitious, the proud, the choleric man, the hero and the coward, the beggar and the king, the rich and the poor, the young and the old, all live in a world of their own making ; and the poet does no more than describe what all the others think and act. If his art is...