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PREFACE . A PREFACE , a Prologue , and the King's Speech , are three such usual things , and so much alike , that ingenuity is often at a loss to compose them . Yet , what is generally ex- pected must be performed ; and it were better ...
PREFACE . A PREFACE , a Prologue , and the King's Speech , are three such usual things , and so much alike , that ingenuity is often at a loss to compose them . Yet , what is generally ex- pected must be performed ; and it were better ...
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... king he assumed the name and arms of that house . By the death of his father , June 20 , 1793 , his lordship succeed- ed to the title of Earl Moira . he expressed in various ways , that American war Lord Rawdon was conspicuous ; and his ...
... king he assumed the name and arms of that house . By the death of his father , June 20 , 1793 , his lordship succeed- ed to the title of Earl Moira . he expressed in various ways , that American war Lord Rawdon was conspicuous ; and his ...
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... king of Persia passing over into Greece , laying hold of one another and repairing to a spot out of the forces for ... king , Tissaphernes entered spirit , fought nobly , and conquered which time he persuaded the king to into a truce for ...
... king of Persia passing over into Greece , laying hold of one another and repairing to a spot out of the forces for ... king , Tissaphernes entered spirit , fought nobly , and conquered which time he persuaded the king to into a truce for ...
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... king , Cleombrutus , fell in No. 13. Agesilaus suppresses a the battle . Faction . Agesilaus , when a sedition broke On Cowper and Sir Philip Sydney's SIR , Arcadia . out in Sparta , and many armed men seized the hill sacred to Issori ...
... king , Cleombrutus , fell in No. 13. Agesilaus suppresses a the battle . Faction . Agesilaus , when a sedition broke On Cowper and Sir Philip Sydney's SIR , Arcadia . out in Sparta , and many armed men seized the hill sacred to Issori ...
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... king is to be indemnified elsewhere , from this empire is , that it will unite or that some new king is to be made , heartily in the views of France , and who is to have this island . The king send forth its hordes to depopulate the of ...
... king is to be indemnified elsewhere , from this empire is , that it will unite or that some new king is to be made , heartily in the views of France , and who is to have this island . The king send forth its hordes to depopulate the of ...
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Page 86 - France was broken off upon points immediately affecting, not his majesty's own interests, but those of his imperial ally. But his majesty neither understands, nor will he admit, the pretension of the emperor of Russia...
Page 86 - ... conditions on which alone these hostilities can be terminated, and the intercourse of the two countries renewed. " His Majesty has already had occasion to assert, that justice has in no instance been denied to the claims of his Imperial Majesty's subjects. " The termination of the war with Denmark has been so anxiously sought by his Majesty, that it cannot be necessary for his Majesty to renew any professions upon that subject. But his Majesty is at a loss to reconcile the Emperor of Russia's...
Page 188 - ... forces into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no firing to be permitted on any account ; and, under this order, to march into the principal streets of the town unprovided with proper and...
Page 484 - Friends, I do therefore believe and shall obey your word. Friends, I hope you also will consent to my request, which is this : I wish you to send a great number of men, women, and children here. Friends, send also property, and cloth for us, and we also will adopt English customs. Friends, send also plenty of muskets and powder ; for wars are frequent in our country. Should I be killed, you will have nothing in...
Page 188 - Whitelocke in making such an offensive and unusual demand, tending to exasperate the inhabitants of Buenos Ayres, to produce and encourage a spirit of resistance to his Majesty's arms, to exclude the hope of amicable accommodation, and to increase the difficulties of the service with which he was intrusted, acted in a manner unbecoming his duty as an officer, prejudicial to military discipline, and contrary to the Articles of War.
Page 188 - Quentin, tending to lessen the confidence of the soldiers in the skill and courage of their officers, being unbecoming his character as an officer, prejudicial to good order and military discipline, and contrary to the articles of war.
Page 417 - The bride kissed the goblet; the knight took it up: He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand ere her mother could bar, — "Now tread we a measure!
Page 500 - From experiments which I have made, I find that, on being dried, which should be done in the shade, and infused in a tea-pot, the leaves of the vine make an excellent substitute for tea. I have also found, that on being cut small, bruised, and put into a vat or mashing-tub, and boiling water poured on them in the same way as is done with malt, the...
Page 85 - Baltic is maintained; however, his majesty may, at particular periods, have forborne, for special reasons, influencing his conduct at the time to act in contradiction to them. Such forbearance never could have applied but to a state of peace and real neutrality in the north ; and his majesty most assuredly could not be expected to recur to it, after France has been suffered to establish herself in indisputed sovereignty along the whole coast of the Baltic sea, from Dantzic to Lubeck.
Page 86 - Majesty't pacific negocialions with other powers. It never will be endured by his Majesty, that any government shall indemnify itself for the humiliation of subserviency to France, by the adoption of an insulting and peremptory tone towards Oreat Britain.