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... stores , they muft fall an eafy prey to the invader . The Nabob anfwered the ur- gency of the prefidency for ex- ertion on his part , and for speedy fupplies of provifions and means to enable the army to act , partly with excufes , and ...
... stores , they muft fall an eafy prey to the invader . The Nabob anfwered the ur- gency of the prefidency for ex- ertion on his part , and for speedy fupplies of provifions and means to enable the army to act , partly with excufes , and ...
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... stores from the fhore to the refpective batteries , which were conftructed all around the hill ,, the toil and fatigue of the troops in fuch a climate could not but have been exceffive . The trench- es were opened in the night be- tween ...
... stores from the fhore to the refpective batteries , which were conftructed all around the hill ,, the toil and fatigue of the troops in fuch a climate could not but have been exceffive . The trench- es were opened in the night be- tween ...
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... store- Ships mifs the Bay , and pafs with the fleet into the Mediterranean . Combined fleets follow , but avoid aflion . Lord Howe , having landed the troops and fuccessfully relieved Gibraltar , repaffes the Straits . Followed by the ...
... store- Ships mifs the Bay , and pafs with the fleet into the Mediterranean . Combined fleets follow , but avoid aflion . Lord Howe , having landed the troops and fuccessfully relieved Gibraltar , repaffes the Straits . Followed by the ...
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... stores , pro- vifions , ammunition , and con- veying a confiderable number of troops for the fupply and rein- forcement of the French fleet and forces in the East Indies ; being particularly defigned to fupply the lofs of that convoy ...
... stores , pro- vifions , ammunition , and con- veying a confiderable number of troops for the fupply and rein- forcement of the French fleet and forces in the East Indies ; being particularly defigned to fupply the lofs of that convoy ...
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... stores of water and provifions than poffibly the commanders for the defigned expedition to Gibraltar , which was now become an object of the utmost urgency ; and even a general cry rifing through the nation at the relief being fo long ...
... stores of water and provifions than poffibly the commanders for the defigned expedition to Gibraltar , which was now become an object of the utmost urgency ; and even a general cry rifing through the nation at the relief being fo long ...
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Seite 322 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those...
Seite 322 - Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Seite 208 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Seite 323 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Seite 323 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Seite 208 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Seite 323 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; -thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Seite 205 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Seite 205 - ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Seite 205 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.