A Series of Letters, Discovering the Scheme Projected by France, in MDCCLIX, for an Intended Invasion Upon England with Flat-bottom'd Boats ...: To which are Prefixed the Secret Adventures of the Young Pretender ...author and sold, 1767 - 268 Seiten |
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... danger and escape at sea , and of his being fafe landed in Scotland , was known in France before the English miniftry were fully apprised thereof , or at least convinced that it was fo . This news , however , had very different effects ...
... danger and escape at sea , and of his being fafe landed in Scotland , was known in France before the English miniftry were fully apprised thereof , or at least convinced that it was fo . This news , however , had very different effects ...
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... danger that threatened them , of being taken or cut off by the duke's army , were entirely fettled and privately directed by Sulli- van , who , it was faid , better than any of the rest , by the fituation of the English army , and the ...
... danger that threatened them , of being taken or cut off by the duke's army , were entirely fettled and privately directed by Sulli- van , who , it was faid , better than any of the rest , by the fituation of the English army , and the ...
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... danger and hazard . After a fhort confultation , the courier was fent back with all expedition , with orders for Sullivan to wait about half an hour longer for the arrival of the other column ; and , if in that time it should not arrive ...
... danger and hazard . After a fhort confultation , the courier was fent back with all expedition , with orders for Sullivan to wait about half an hour longer for the arrival of the other column ; and , if in that time it should not arrive ...
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... danger he escaped being taken prisoner twice during the battle . Every effort that men could make under their circumstan- ces , was put in practice by the Highlanders and their com- manders , to break in on the English army , to come to ...
... danger he escaped being taken prisoner twice during the battle . Every effort that men could make under their circumstan- ces , was put in practice by the Highlanders and their com- manders , to break in on the English army , to come to ...
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... danger observe every thing that pass'd : but seeing at length the fortune of the day , on which he had in the morning with fuch confidence counted , now turned against him , the Highlanders on all fides giving way , and , in a word ...
... danger observe every thing that pass'd : but seeing at length the fortune of the day , on which he had in the morning with fuch confidence counted , now turned against him , the Highlanders on all fides giving way , and , in a word ...
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Seite 49 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Seite 97 - If you shall spare any guilty of this crime, God's curse light on you and your posterity; and if I spare any that are found guilty, God's curse light on me and my posterity for ever...
Seite 151 - I'd be a Dog, a Monkey or a Bear, Or any thing, but that vain Animal, Who is so proud of being rational.
Seite 97 - Italian custom should be introduced among us! Therefore, my lords, I charge you, as you will answer it at that great and dreadful day of judgment, that you examine it strictly without favour, affection, or partiality. And if you shall spare any guilty of this crime, God's curse light on you and your posterity! and if I spare any that are guilty, God's curse light on me and my posterity for ever!
Seite 175 - ... time before obtained his liberty. He then told me, he •would order a good fire in the room, and wood, defiring me to let him know when I wanted any thing. Going to the room, where I was to lie, conducted by this captain, I found a candle •and a good fire burning, a table, two chairs, and a tolerable bed. for fuch a place. An elderly man, an under-ofHcer of the houfe, came in and put on a pair of fheets. On their going away, the captain locked me up with as much...
Seite 97 - My lords the judges, it is lately come to my hearing that you have now in examination a business of poisoning. Lord! in what a...
Seite 169 - Cafting my eyes about, as foon as the coach ftopt, and not feeing any perfon in the great court, nor at the doors or •windows of any of thofe buildings, but every thing with an appearance of retirement and tranquillity, I inftantly concluded it to be a convent, or the palace of fome archbifhop, or other perfon of diftinguifhed rank in the church. Getting out of the coach, the Swifs came dire&ly to us.
Seite 173 - ... reflection, I had the confolation to think, I had neither faid or done any thing to give offence 1 was now impatient to look at the paper given me by Buhot, which I had as yet found no opportunity to. do in private. In the fame breath, I was defirous to have farther difcourfe with the noble captain, and afked him, who thofe people were that I had feen, at coming in, drefled in fo particular a manner ? He told me, they were a few of the prifoners, who behaved well, who had been a long time confined,...