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... majesty Charles Emanuel , who , after fecond rank ( proximus longo tamen the incomparable Frederic , held the intervallo ) among the kings of Eu- rope . The fize and populoufnefs of Milan could not furprise an inhabitant of London : but ...
... majesty Charles Emanuel , who , after fecond rank ( proximus longo tamen the incomparable Frederic , held the intervallo ) among the kings of Eu- rope . The fize and populoufnefs of Milan could not furprise an inhabitant of London : but ...
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... majesty's principal fecretaries of state . Sir , St. Lucia , May 22 . In addition to my letter of the 2d of May , I have the honour to acquaint you that major - general Whyte has returned from Berbice , which colony accepted of the ...
... majesty's principal fecretaries of state . Sir , St. Lucia , May 22 . In addition to my letter of the 2d of May , I have the honour to acquaint you that major - general Whyte has returned from Berbice , which colony accepted of the ...
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... majesty's troops ; but I feel it an indifpenfable duty to acquaint their lord- ships , that the conduct of the officers and feamen equalled my most fanguine expecta- tions , and that it has been in every in- ftance highly meritorious ...
... majesty's troops ; but I feel it an indifpenfable duty to acquaint their lord- ships , that the conduct of the officers and feamen equalled my most fanguine expecta- tions , and that it has been in every in- ftance highly meritorious ...
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... majesty's Ships and Vessels on the Coast of Ireland , to Mr. Nepean , dated L ' Engageante , Cork Harbour , June 29 . I HAVE the fatisfaction of acquainting you , for the information of my lords commiffioners of the admiralty , that the ...
... majesty's Ships and Vessels on the Coast of Ireland , to Mr. Nepean , dated L ' Engageante , Cork Harbour , June 29 . I HAVE the fatisfaction of acquainting you , for the information of my lords commiffioners of the admiralty , that the ...
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... majesty's fhip Heroine , Columbo Road , Feb. 16 . Sir , Having received directions from fir George Keith Elphinstone , commander in chief of his majefty's fhips and vef- fels in these feas , to take under my or- ders the fhips of his ...
... majesty's fhip Heroine , Columbo Road , Feb. 16 . Sir , Having received directions from fir George Keith Elphinstone , commander in chief of his majefty's fhips and vef- fels in these feas , to take under my or- ders the fhips of his ...
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Seite 78 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Seite 80 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Seite 352 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Seite 352 - ... magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Seite 85 - He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Seite 349 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Seite 78 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops. Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Seite 352 - Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Seite 32 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 354 - The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a. predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress, without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.