The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Bind 13Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1829 |
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... British commercial rights , which would otherwise have been injured by interlopers under neutral colours , countenanced by some French frigates , as well as by the Governors of the garrisons belonging to that nation . In the month of ...
... British commercial rights , which would otherwise have been injured by interlopers under neutral colours , countenanced by some French frigates , as well as by the Governors of the garrisons belonging to that nation . In the month of ...
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... British frigates , which rather dropped astern , and his main - topmast being so badly wounded that he ex- pected it would fall over the side , by which accident the enemy might have escaped , he came to the resolution to secure that ...
... British frigates , which rather dropped astern , and his main - topmast being so badly wounded that he ex- pected it would fall over the side , by which accident the enemy might have escaped , he came to the resolution to secure that ...
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... British squadron imme- diately weighed , and chased them under a small battery , which was soon silenced , and twelve of the vessels , abandoned by their crews , taken possession of . The other escaped round Cape Carteret . They ...
... British squadron imme- diately weighed , and chased them under a small battery , which was soon silenced , and twelve of the vessels , abandoned by their crews , taken possession of . The other escaped round Cape Carteret . They ...
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... British squadron could arrive within gun - shot . A little before noon , the French , finding an action unavoid- able , began to take in their small sails , and form in a line on the starboard tack . At noon the battle began , and ...
... British squadron could arrive within gun - shot . A little before noon , the French , finding an action unavoid- able , began to take in their small sails , and form in a line on the starboard tack . At noon the battle began , and ...
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... British and the Monthly Magazines . Of the Critical Review he was for some time the editor ; and the task of pre- paring the most elaborate articles often devolved upon him . In the beginning of 1803 his labours were still more multi ...
... British and the Monthly Magazines . Of the Critical Review he was for some time the editor ; and the task of pre- paring the most elaborate articles often devolved upon him . In the beginning of 1803 his labours were still more multi ...
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Admiral afterwards appeared appointed army attached attention battalion beautiful became bill Bishop British Buonaparte Burrell Captain Carteret Captain Clapperton character Church Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel Campbell command conduct considerable Damer daughter death distinguished Domett Duke duties Earl of Liverpool eldest enemy established feelings France French friends frigate genius Gothic Gothic architecture Government guns heart honour House of Lords January Jenkinson Kerrich King Lady Craven late letter literary London Lord Bridport Lord Hawkesbury Lord Liverpool Lordship Lowndes Majesty Majesty's manner March Margrave married Memoir ment mind nature Neele Neil Campbell never noble occasion officer Paris Parliament period person Pitt possession present Prince principles Queen rank Rear-Admiral received regiment residence respect returned to England Richard Strachan ROBERT BANKS JENKINSON sent ship Sir James Smith Sir Neil Society soon spirit squadron talents taste tion vessel volume wounded Wurtemberg
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Side 333 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest . Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Side 377 - XIV. upon what slight grounds have you been accused of restless and immoderate ' ambition ! — O ! tame and feeble Cervantes, with what a timid pencil and faint colours have you painted the portrait of a disordered imagination!
Side 456 - This gentleman, whose occupations for some years must have been rather of a civil and administrative than a military nature, was called early in the war to exercise abilities which, though dormant, had not rusted from disuse. He went into the field with not more than five or six hundred men...
Side 375 - That it is the opinion of this committee, that the trade carried on by British subjects, for the purpose of obtaining slaves on the coast of Africa, ought to be abolished.
Side 146 - That this house will, early in the next session of parliament, take into its most serious consideration the state of the laws affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland ; with a view to such a final -and conciliatory adjustment, "as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the protestant establishment ; and to the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of his Majesty's subjects.
Side 302 - The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincuncial Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically considered;" and " Hydriotaphia ; Urn Burial, or a Discourse on the Sepulchral Urns found in Norfolk.
Side 315 - His creed was the New Testament, and he read it as a celebrated divine* recommends; that is, " as a man would read a letter from a friend, in the which he doth only seek after what was his friend's mind and meaning, not what he can put upon his words.
Side 337 - Brutus' temperance ; and every virtue, Which, parted unto others, gave them name, Flow'd mix'd in him. He was the soul of goodness ; And all our praises of him are like streams Drawn from a spring, that still rise full, and leave The part remaining greatest.
Side 413 - Literary History of the Middle Ages ; comprehending an Account of the State of Learning from the Close of the Reign of Augustus to its Revival in the Fifteenth Century.
Side 380 - I am sure," says the noble lord, in his reply, through Mr. Merry, to one of M. Otto's official notes, " I am sure you must be aware that his majesty cannot, and never will, in consequence of any representation or any menace from a foreign power, make any concession which can be in the smallest degree dangerous to the liberty of the press, as secured by the constitution of this country.