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... ment , his Lordship laid the French ship aboard on the larboard quarter , and the Pégase was com- pelled to strike . Nothing could have afforded a more striking instance of the decided superiority of seamanship and discipline on the one ...
... ment , his Lordship laid the French ship aboard on the larboard quarter , and the Pégase was com- pelled to strike . Nothing could have afforded a more striking instance of the decided superiority of seamanship and discipline on the one ...
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... ment pass without a due share of applause , when it is known , that some of the first officers of the navy have been formed under him . * inongst these may be reckoned Lord Nelson of the Nile : his Royal Highness the Duke of Cla- rence ...
... ment pass without a due share of applause , when it is known , that some of the first officers of the navy have been formed under him . * inongst these may be reckoned Lord Nelson of the Nile : his Royal Highness the Duke of Cla- rence ...
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... ment . The sum allowed for his support must have been very small , as his father's pension from the crown * was barely sufficient to provide før the expences incurred by a genteel , but moderate plan of living ; nor were the emoluments ...
... ment . The sum allowed for his support must have been very small , as his father's pension from the crown * was barely sufficient to provide før the expences incurred by a genteel , but moderate plan of living ; nor were the emoluments ...
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... ment of society at large , should also be capable of communicating solid instruction , and pro- ducing real amendment . It has been remarked , with some degree of propriety , that the charac- ters of Joseph and Charles have been taken ...
... ment of society at large , should also be capable of communicating solid instruction , and pro- ducing real amendment . It has been remarked , with some degree of propriety , that the charac- ters of Joseph and Charles have been taken ...
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... ment , and his circumstances to ruin , in order to screen those by whom he had been engaged in his professional pursuits , for the purpose of promoting their favourite end , was treated with neglect , and it will , with difficulty , be ...
... ment , and his circumstances to ruin , in order to screen those by whom he had been engaged in his professional pursuits , for the purpose of promoting their favourite end , was treated with neglect , and it will , with difficulty , be ...
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Sida 265 - But hark ! the portals sound, and pacing forth With solemn steps and slow, High potentates, and dames of royal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go : Great Edward, with the lilies on his brow From haughty Gallia torn...
Sida 265 - What is grandeur, what is power ? Heavier toil, superior pain. What the bright reward we gain ? The grateful memory of the good. Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee's collected treasures sweet, Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet The still small voice of Gratitude.
Sida 543 - Yet this is true of them all, that in all the several shapes of his Style there is still very much of the likeness and impression of the same mind : the same unaffected modesty, and natural freedom, and easie vigour, and chearful passions, and innocent mirth, which appear'd in all his 30 Manners.
Sida 265 - Saint, and the majestic Lord, That broke the bonds of Rome: (Their tears, their little triumphs o'er, Their human passions now no more, Save Charity, that glows beyond the tomb...
Sida 60 - Puff. To be sure it will — but what the plague ! a play is not to show occurrences that happen every day, but things just so strange, that though they never did, they might happen.
Sida 543 - I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.
Sida 53 - That it is the right and duty of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons of Great Britain now assembled, and lawfully, fully, and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm, to provide the means of supplying the defect of the personal exercise of the royal authority, arising from his majesty's said indisposition, in such manner as the exigency of the case may appear to require.
Sida 85 - I have hitherto followed it, and have no reason to complain that my obedience to it has been even a temporal sacrifice. I have found it, on the contrary, the road to prosperity and wealth ; and I shall point it out as such to my children.
Sida 549 - Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. The change both my heart and my fancy employs, I reflect on the frailty of man and his joys ; Shortlived as we are, yet our pleasures, we see. Have a still shorter date, and die sooner than we.
Sida 468 - Shrewsbury, Chester, and other places where the company usually performed. At length, by the kindness of Mr. Younger, the manager, she obtained a letter of introduction to the elder Colman, at whose theatre in the Haymarket she appeared in the summer of 1777, in the character of Miss Hardcastle, in Goldsmith's comedy of