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... once communicated , could not be controlled , and kindled into flame all our artillery . Under the direction of colo- nel Porter , assisted by major Totten of the engineers , and captain Archer of the artillery , they poured red - hot ...
... once communicated , could not be controlled , and kindled into flame all our artillery . Under the direction of colo- nel Porter , assisted by major Totten of the engineers , and captain Archer of the artillery , they poured red - hot ...
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... once imposing and beautiful . The proud or anxious feelings of the combatants , subsided for a moment , at the sight , into emotions far removed from the mood of war . The enemy lay concealed within the woods , and sheltered behind the ...
... once imposing and beautiful . The proud or anxious feelings of the combatants , subsided for a moment , at the sight , into emotions far removed from the mood of war . The enemy lay concealed within the woods , and sheltered behind the ...
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... once by parliament - once by the army- and , last again , I think , by general Monk : in a word , whatever side got up , he had the disaster to be down . The lines are thus : The world and I may well agree , As most that are offended ...
... once by parliament - once by the army- and , last again , I think , by general Monk : in a word , whatever side got up , he had the disaster to be down . The lines are thus : The world and I may well agree , As most that are offended ...
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... once the dissipation of youth , the selfishness of maturer years , and the feebleness of old age . " John Bull may swallow all this , because he is a great blockhead , and it is his principle to " hate all other countries , " and " to ...
... once the dissipation of youth , the selfishness of maturer years , and the feebleness of old age . " John Bull may swallow all this , because he is a great blockhead , and it is his principle to " hate all other countries , " and " to ...
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... once the dissipation of youth , the selfishness of ma- turer years , and the feebleness of old age . They are moreover ostentatious and conceited in the very highest degree , regarding all other men with contempt and disdain . They view ...
... once the dissipation of youth , the selfishness of ma- turer years , and the feebleness of old age . They are moreover ostentatious and conceited in the very highest degree , regarding all other men with contempt and disdain . They view ...
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American Andromache appears army banks beautiful Bible boat boiler Brevets caciques called captain character chinampas Cholula Colonel command Cottagers of Glenburnie Covenanters dollars per month earth enemy engine English Evandale eyes favour feel French gentlemen give gold Granville Sharp hand heart heaven honour horses hundred inhabitants John July July 14 June 14 king labour land leagues letters Lieutenants Lord Maj bvt manner master means ment Mexico miles mind mineralogy Montezuma nature never observed officers Old Mortality opinion Pernambuco persons Phillips political PORT FOLIO present principles province Pyrrhus racter received Recife rendered residence respect river says sent slaves soon spirit thee thing thou thousand tion town translation United whole word writer Yellow Fever
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Página 123 - Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee ; take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Página 122 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Página 259 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Página 156 - The one was fire and fickleness, a child Most mutable in wishes, but in mind A wit as various, — gay, grave, sage, or wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.
Página 260 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Página 511 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 259 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame...
Página 119 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us.
Página 259 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 433 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.