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... ordered prince Rupert to attack him , and retake the Brasil ships . Blake carried home his prizes without molestation , the prince not having force enough to pursue him , and well pleased with the opportunity of quitting a port where he ...
... ordered prince Rupert to attack him , and retake the Brasil ships . Blake carried home his prizes without molestation , the prince not having force enough to pursue him , and well pleased with the opportunity of quitting a port where he ...
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... ordered his light frigates to follow the mer- chants , still continued to harass Van Trump , and on the third day , the 20th of February , the two fleets came to another battle , in which Van Trump once more retired before the English ...
... ordered his light frigates to follow the mer- chants , still continued to harass Van Trump , and on the third day , the 20th of February , the two fleets came to another battle , in which Van Trump once more retired before the English ...
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... ordered all ships of force in the river and ports to re- pair to them . On June 3d , the two fleets came to an engagement , in the beginning of which Dean was carried off by cannon ball ; yet the fight continued from about fwelve to six ...
... ordered all ships of force in the river and ports to re- pair to them . On June 3d , the two fleets came to an engagement , in the beginning of which Dean was carried off by cannon ball ; yet the fight continued from about fwelve to six ...
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... ordered his officers to send out their long boats well manned to seize nine of the piratical ships lying in the road , himself continuing to fire upon the castle . This was so bravely execut- ed , that with the loss of only twenty ...
... ordered his officers to send out their long boats well manned to seize nine of the piratical ships lying in the road , himself continuing to fire upon the castle . This was so bravely execut- ed , that with the loss of only twenty ...
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... ordered Stayner to enter the bay with his squadron ; then , posting some of his larger ships to play upon the fortifications , himself attacked the galleons , which , after a gallant resistance , were at length abandoned by the ...
... ordered Stayner to enter the bay with his squadron ; then , posting some of his larger ships to play upon the fortifications , himself attacked the galleons , which , after a gallant resistance , were at length abandoned by the ...
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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.