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... Dutch fleets were Van Trump , De Ruyter , and De Witt , the most celebrated names of their own nation , and who had been perhaps more renowned , had they been opposed by any other enemies . The States of Holland , having carried on ...
... Dutch fleets were Van Trump , De Ruyter , and De Witt , the most celebrated names of their own nation , and who had been perhaps more renowned , had they been opposed by any other enemies . The States of Holland , having carried on ...
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... Dutch admiral saluted him with three single shots , to require that he should , by striking his flag , shew that respect to the English , which is due to every nation in their own dominions ; to which the Dutchman ' answered with a ...
... Dutch admiral saluted him with three single shots , to require that he should , by striking his flag , shew that respect to the English , which is due to every nation in their own dominions ; to which the Dutchman ' answered with a ...
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... Dutch fishery fleet with a con- voy of twelve men of war , all which he took , with 100 of their herring - busses . And in September , being stationed in the Downs with about sixty sail , he dis- covered the Dutch admirals De Witt and ...
... Dutch fishery fleet with a con- voy of twelve men of war , all which he took , with 100 of their herring - busses . And in September , being stationed in the Downs with about sixty sail , he dis- covered the Dutch admirals De Witt and ...
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... Dutch admirals , who had not agreed in their measures , that De Ruyter , who had declared against hazarding a battle , desired to resign his commission , and De Witt , who had insisted upon fighting , fell sick , as it was supposed ...
... Dutch admirals , who had not agreed in their measures , that De Ruyter , who had declared against hazarding a battle , desired to resign his commission , and De Witt , who had insisted upon fighting , fell sick , as it was supposed ...
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... Dutch fleet was therefore sustained by about twenty - two ships . Two of the English frigates , named the Vanguard and the Vic- tory , after having for a long time stood engaged amidst the whole Dutch fleet , broke through without much ...
... Dutch fleet was therefore sustained by about twenty - two ships . Two of the English frigates , named the Vanguard and the Vic- tory , after having for a long time stood engaged amidst the whole Dutch fleet , broke through without much ...
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Seite 229 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.
Seite 229 - The reciprocal civility. of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Seite 327 - I sat for my picture, and walked a considerable way with little inconvenience. In the afternoon and evening I felt myself light and easy, and began to plan schemes of life. Thus I went to bed, and in a short time waked and sat up, as has...
Seite 337 - ... available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity ; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends ; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death ; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Seite 229 - ... and had lately declared, that 'the whole world was made for man, but only the twelfth part of man for woman;' and, that 'man is the whole world, but woman only the rib or crooked part of man.
Seite 55 - He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience, what mighty things they could do, if they were resolved ; and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon water : and though he hath been very well imitated and followed, he was the first that gave the example of that kind of naval courage », and bold and resolute achievements.
Seite 337 - Almighty and most merciful Father, I am now, as to human eyes it seems, about to commemorate, for the last time, the death of thy son Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Redeemer. Grant, O Lord, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits and in thy mercy: forgive and accept my late conversion; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance...
Seite 229 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progrcssional, and otherwise made in vain...
Seite 288 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Seite 327 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.