The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Band 14Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1830 |
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... equally anxious to pay every tribute of respect to the memory of him who has served his country so well , as though he had been snatched from us , like Nelson , in the very act of achieving great and memorable deeds . The family of ...
... equally anxious to pay every tribute of respect to the memory of him who has served his country so well , as though he had been snatched from us , like Nelson , in the very act of achieving great and memorable deeds . The family of ...
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... equally forward . He highly deserves every thing I can do to make him happy . " To Mrs. Nelson .- " Hoste is indeed a most exceeding good boy , and will shine in our service . " In August , 1798 , Mr. Hoste succeeded the Hon . T. B. ...
... equally forward . He highly deserves every thing I can do to make him happy . " To Mrs. Nelson .- " Hoste is indeed a most exceeding good boy , and will shine in our service . " In August , 1798 , Mr. Hoste succeeded the Hon . T. B. ...
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... I expected from their tried worth ; but I must not particularise where all are equally meritorious . The damage the ships have sustained is very considerable , and I feel will render us totally incapable of keeping B 4 SIR WILLIAM HOSTE .
... I expected from their tried worth ; but I must not particularise where all are equally meritorious . The damage the ships have sustained is very considerable , and I feel will render us totally incapable of keeping B 4 SIR WILLIAM HOSTE .
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... equally successful in the personation of such characters as Edward the Fifth in " Richard the Third ; " and Peggy , the youngest , was , many years afterwards , well- known on the London boards as the wife of Mr. Knight , an exceedingly ...
... equally successful in the personation of such characters as Edward the Fifth in " Richard the Third ; " and Peggy , the youngest , was , many years afterwards , well- known on the London boards as the wife of Mr. Knight , an exceedingly ...
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... reading Spenser's Fairie Queen , which he accidentally discovered in the window of his mother's apartment ; and it is equally true , that Sir Joshua Reynolds had the first fondness of his art excited by D 4 Sir Humphry Davy.
... reading Spenser's Fairie Queen , which he accidentally discovered in the window of his mother's apartment ; and it is equally true , that Sir Joshua Reynolds had the first fondness of his art excited by D 4 Sir Humphry Davy.
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Seite 143 - Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
Seite 278 - Esq., as the author or publisher of a printed pamphlet, entitled, " Thoughts on the English Government — addressed to the quiet good sense of the people of England...
Seite 371 - A finite and exact Expression for the Refraction of an Atmosphere nearly resembling that of the Earth.
Seite 211 - Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: Biographical, critical, and political. With some Pieces of Thomson's never before published.
Seite 370 - An Account of some recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature and Egyptian Antiquities, including the Author's original Alphabet, as extended by M. Champollion, Svo.
Seite 51 - ... in a state of intense activity ; and a platina wire, communicating with the positive side, was brought in contact with the upper surface of the alkali. The whole apparatus was in the open atmosphere.
Seite 54 - In sciences kindred to chemistry, the knowledge of the nature of the alkalies, and the analogies arising in consequence, will open many new views; they may lead to the solution of many problems in geology, and shew that agents may have operated in the formation of rocks and earths which have not hitherto been suspected to exist.
Seite 368 - Remarks on the Employment of Oblique Riders, and on other Alterations in the Construction of Ships. Phil. Trans. 1814-, p. 303 ; the substance of a Report before presented to the Board of Admiralty, relating to Sir Robert Sepping's Improvements, with some additional illustrations.
Seite 154 - For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon you by this house, in gratitude for your many and eminent services, you have thought fit this day to offer us your acknowledgments; but this nation well knows that it is still largely your debtor. It owes to you the proud satisfaction, that amidst the constellation of illustrious warriors, who have recently visited our country...
Seite 72 - ... resources and devices, as well as from active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings — fishes, and the animals that they prey upon, and an acquaintance with the signs and tokens of the weather and. its changes, the nature of waters,...