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... officers , and whose operations were favoured by the hostile dispositions of the peasantry toward the French . They proved most ruinous to their enemies , by cutting off their resources of provisions , and attacking their foraging ...
... officers , and whose operations were favoured by the hostile dispositions of the peasantry toward the French . They proved most ruinous to their enemies , by cutting off their resources of provisions , and attacking their foraging ...
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... officers who still had horses , and formed four companies of them , each of 150. The Generals performed the functions of officers , and the Colonels those of under - officers . This squadron , called sacred , was put under the orders of ...
... officers who still had horses , and formed four companies of them , each of 150. The Generals performed the functions of officers , and the Colonels those of under - officers . This squadron , called sacred , was put under the orders of ...
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... officer to the greatest enemy his coun- try ever encountered ; and when we suppose it also to be the language of the ... officers . Buonaparte having made good his rapid flight , and thus saved the wreck of his army from almost certain ...
... officer to the greatest enemy his coun- try ever encountered ; and when we suppose it also to be the language of the ... officers . Buonaparte having made good his rapid flight , and thus saved the wreck of his army from almost certain ...
Side 34
... officers . By adding those who were lost in detail , in conse- quence of disease , famine , cold , and other accidental causes , we find the number 450,000 men . We may reckon the number of allied troops who escaped the great disaster ...
... officers . By adding those who were lost in detail , in conse- quence of disease , famine , cold , and other accidental causes , we find the number 450,000 men . We may reckon the number of allied troops who escaped the great disaster ...
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... officers ought to steer , according to par . son Townley's account , is ridiculous in the extreme . The man has a soft place in his head , that's clear . Grigg . His particularity , to my cer- tain knowledge , has been many a bright ...
... officers ought to steer , according to par . son Townley's account , is ridiculous in the extreme . The man has a soft place in his head , that's clear . Grigg . His particularity , to my cer- tain knowledge , has been many a bright ...
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Side 69 - And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Side 579 - I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indee'd, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Side 579 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Side 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not...
Side 434 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Side 429 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him, and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Side 572 - ... those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence : truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...
Side 579 - What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Side 97 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
Side 300 - tis holy ground ! II. From yonder realms of empyrean day Bursts on my ear th' indignant lay : There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, The few, whom Genius gave to shine Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.