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... still more interefting , fome very confiderable falt works . To draw away their attention from the objects of this expedition , and in order alfo to procure forage and fresh provifions for the army , Lord Cornwallis advanced into Jerfey ...
... still more interefting , fome very confiderable falt works . To draw away their attention from the objects of this expedition , and in order alfo to procure forage and fresh provifions for the army , Lord Cornwallis advanced into Jerfey ...
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... still farther up into the country . The detachment , with the lighter armed veffels , proceeded , through a moft difficult paffage , to Chefnut Neck ; being obliged to work their way at random through numberless fhoals , without the aid ...
... still farther up into the country . The detachment , with the lighter armed veffels , proceeded , through a moft difficult paffage , to Chefnut Neck ; being obliged to work their way at random through numberless fhoals , without the aid ...
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... still perfevere in their obfti- nacy ; more efpecially , as that was founded upon the pretended alliance with France . Upon this fubject they expreffed themfelves as follows : " The policy , as well " as the benevolence of Great ...
... still perfevere in their obfti- nacy ; more efpecially , as that was founded upon the pretended alliance with France . Upon this fubject they expreffed themfelves as follows : " The policy , as well " as the benevolence of Great ...
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... still so inceffant and urgent , that the fources of fupply were conftantly drained and ex- hausted , fo that other objects , how- ever important , were of neceffity obliged to be committed , in a great measure , to the blind difpofition ...
... still so inceffant and urgent , that the fources of fupply were conftantly drained and ex- hausted , fo that other objects , how- ever important , were of neceffity obliged to be committed , in a great measure , to the blind difpofition ...
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... still preffed forward . As the referve advanced , General Prescot took poffeffion of the batteries and pofts in their rear ; and with an unex- ampled degree of caution and in- duftry , in a contest with fo weak an enemy , was ...
... still preffed forward . As the referve advanced , General Prescot took poffeffion of the batteries and pofts in their rear ; and with an unex- ampled degree of caution and in- duftry , in a contest with fo weak an enemy , was ...
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Página 24 - ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion.
Página 23 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
Página 24 - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
Página 25 - This kind of writing, which was, I believe borrowed from Marino and his followers, had been recommended by the example of Donne, a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jonson, whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments.
Página 26 - He has involved in his account of the fall of man the events which preceded and those that were to follow it : he has interwoven the whole system of theology with such propriety that every part appears to be necessary; and scarcely any recital is wished shorter for the sake of quickening the progress of the main action.
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Página 149 - ... by the help of the fat of hogs, has covered the whole with flour, laid on by a machine with the utmost regularity; if, when thus attired, he issues forth, and meets a Cherokee Indian, who has bestowed as much time at his toilet, and laid on with equal care and attention his yellow and red ochre on particular parts of his forehead or cheeks, as he judges most becoming...
Página 32 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Página 23 - If, by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new; that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.