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... force , can however poison their weapon , and weak as they are , give mortal wounds , and bring a hero to the grave : so true is that observation , that many are able to do hurt , but few to do good . This detestable calumny owed its ...
... force , can however poison their weapon , and weak as they are , give mortal wounds , and bring a hero to the grave : so true is that observation , that many are able to do hurt , but few to do good . This detestable calumny owed its ...
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... force enough to pursue him , and well pleased with the opportunity of quitting a port where he could no longer be protected . Blake soon supplied his fleet with provision , and received orders to make reprisals upon the French who had ...
... force enough to pursue him , and well pleased with the opportunity of quitting a port where he could no longer be protected . Blake soon supplied his fleet with provision , and received orders to make reprisals upon the French who had ...
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... force , and commanded the captain to come on board , there being no war declared between the two nations . The captain when he came , was asked by him , whether " he was willing to lay down " his sword , and yield ? " which he gallantly ...
... force , and commanded the captain to come on board , there being no war declared between the two nations . The captain when he came , was asked by him , whether " he was willing to lay down " his sword , and yield ? " which he gallantly ...
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... force . They had for some time made uncommon preparations at a vast expence , and had equipped a large fleet , without any apparent danger threaten- ing them , or any avowed design of attacking their neighbours . This unusual armament ...
... force . They had for some time made uncommon preparations at a vast expence , and had equipped a large fleet , without any apparent danger threaten- ing them , or any avowed design of attacking their neighbours . This unusual armament ...
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... force , till the rest of his squadron coming up , the fight was continued from between four and five in the afternoon till nine at night , when the Dutch retired with the loss of two ships , having not destroyed a single vessel , nor ...
... force , till the rest of his squadron coming up , the fight was continued from between four and five in the afternoon till nine at night , when the Dutch retired with the loss of two ships , having not destroyed a single vessel , nor ...
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Seite 423 - At night they set fire to the Fleet, and to the King's Bench, and I know not how many other places ; and one might see the glare of conflagration fill the sky from many parts. The sight was dreadful. Some people were threatened : Mr. Strahan advised me to take care of myself. — Such a time of terrour you have been happy in not seeing.
Seite 276 - The reciprocal civility. of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Seite 332 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look with pleasure upon every act of virtue to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Seite 368 - The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Seite 181 - That the strength of his understanding, the accuracy of his discernment, and the ardour of his Curiosity, might have been remarked from his infancy, by a diligent observer, there is no reason to doubt. For, there is no instance of any man, whose history has been minutely related, that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour.
Seite 39 - So far was this man from being made impious by philosophy, or vain by knowledge or by virtue, that he ascribed all his abilities to the bounty, and all his goodness to the grace of God. May his example extend its influence to his admirers and followers' May those who study his writings imitate his life ! and those who endeavour after his knowledge aspire likewise to his piety...
Seite 438 - When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
Seite 445 - ALMIGHTY God, merciful Father, in whose hands are life and death, sanctify unto me the sorrow which I now feel. Forgive me whatever I have done unkindly to my mother, and whatever I have omitted to do kindly. Make me to remember her good precepts and good example, and to reform my life according to thy holy word, that I may lose no more opportunities of good.
Seite 283 - 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 276 - 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.