Public Characters, Volumen7R. Phillips, 1805 |
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rank , and his acknowledged talents , some post of eminence . After the lapse of about ten years this event ac- cordingly occurred , and towards the latter end of 1793 , he was employed as chief in command of the forces destined for an ...
rank , and his acknowledged talents , some post of eminence . After the lapse of about ten years this event ac- cordingly occurred , and towards the latter end of 1793 , he was employed as chief in command of the forces destined for an ...
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... eminence and celebrity . If Howe was the son of a peer , Shovel was an apprentice to a cobler , and Churchill , although a man of family , would have lived and died in obscurity without attaining to the ducal honours of Marlborough ...
... eminence and celebrity . If Howe was the son of a peer , Shovel was an apprentice to a cobler , and Churchill , although a man of family , would have lived and died in obscurity without attaining to the ducal honours of Marlborough ...
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... eminence resembling a promontory , while it became necessary for the cap- ture of Mozello , built in form of a star , to construct works within seven hundred yards of its walls ; and to effect the latter object , it was indispensably ...
... eminence resembling a promontory , while it became necessary for the cap- ture of Mozello , built in form of a star , to construct works within seven hundred yards of its walls ; and to effect the latter object , it was indispensably ...
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... eminence , following fast behind , threw himself in the arms of Lieutenant - colonel Moore , thus affording the most ardent testimony of his approbation , in presence of the victors , who shouted with joy . The troops having now secured ...
... eminence , following fast behind , threw himself in the arms of Lieutenant - colonel Moore , thus affording the most ardent testimony of his approbation , in presence of the victors , who shouted with joy . The troops having now secured ...
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... eminence . Accordingly two officers were se- lected to lead the troops , and were employed in two separate attacks . General Moore , with seven companies of the fifty - third regiment , one hundred of Malcolm's , and fifty of ...
... eminence . Accordingly two officers were se- lected to lead the troops , and were employed in two separate attacks . General Moore , with seven companies of the fifty - third regiment , one hundred of Malcolm's , and fifty of ...
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Página 151 - ... of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him, more than any other person; but it is some consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that as his life was honourable, so was his death glorious. His memory will be recorded in the annals of his country — will be sacred to every British soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity.
Página 266 - Prepare for happiness ; bespeak him one Content indeed to sojourn while he must Below the skies, but having there his home. The world o'erlooks him in her busy search Of objects more illustrious in her view ; And occupied as earnestly as she, Though more sublimely, he o'erlooks the world. She scorns his pleasures, for she knows them not ; He seeks not hers, for he has proved them vain.
Página 258 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.
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Página 371 - That the authority of the sovereign of the neutral country being interposed in any manner of mere force cannot legally vary the rights of a lawfully commissioned belligerent cruiser.
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