The Monthly Magazine, Volume 23R. Phillips, 1807 - Art |
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... continued to tranfinit our enormous orders to a country , which was annually becoming more in alliance MONTHLY MAG . No. 153 . with , or rather in fubjection to our deadly foe . The natural refult of our credulity and folly was , that ...
... continued to tranfinit our enormous orders to a country , which was annually becoming more in alliance MONTHLY MAG . No. 153 . with , or rather in fubjection to our deadly foe . The natural refult of our credulity and folly was , that ...
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... continued . ) For the Monthly Magazine . OBSERVATIONS On the WRITINGS of HIS TORIANS of all AGES and COUNTRIES , chiefly with a VIEW to the ACCURACY of their MILITARY DESCRIPTIONS , and their KNOWLEDGE of the ART of WAR . By GENERAL ...
... continued . ) For the Monthly Magazine . OBSERVATIONS On the WRITINGS of HIS TORIANS of all AGES and COUNTRIES , chiefly with a VIEW to the ACCURACY of their MILITARY DESCRIPTIONS , and their KNOWLEDGE of the ART of WAR . By GENERAL ...
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... continued Lloyd's Hiftory of the Seven Years ' War . He ferved for a length of time under Frederic , for whom he appears to have entertained a more equal admiration than his prede- cetior expreffes , and gives a more cir- cumftantial ...
... continued Lloyd's Hiftory of the Seven Years ' War . He ferved for a length of time under Frederic , for whom he appears to have entertained a more equal admiration than his prede- cetior expreffes , and gives a more cir- cumftantial ...
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... [ Continued from Vol . 22 , p . 540. ] EING accommodated with a budge- row and provifions , as the winds were very faint , and fometimes contrary , we proceeded flowly down the river on the ebb tides ; bringing up during the floods at the ...
... [ Continued from Vol . 22 , p . 540. ] EING accommodated with a budge- row and provifions , as the winds were very faint , and fometimes contrary , we proceeded flowly down the river on the ebb tides ; bringing up during the floods at the ...
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... continued about three years , and then removed to one of the inus of court ; but the great rebellion breaking out , he entered at firft into the parlia mentary fervice and became a captain . When the king's caufe , however , declin- ed ...
... continued about three years , and then removed to one of the inus of court ; but the great rebellion breaking out , he entered at firft into the parlia mentary fervice and became a captain . When the king's caufe , however , declin- ed ...
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Page 479 - Constantinople, and the latter, of an unlucky attempt, in which the marines and boats' crews of the Canopus, Royal George, Windsor Castle, and Standard, had been engaged. " It is now my duty to acquaint your lordship with the result of the resolution which, for the reasons I have already detailed, I had adopted, of forcing the passage of the Dardanelles. My letter of the 21st is dated at anchor eight miles from Constantinople, the wind not admitting of a nearer approach ; but the Endymion, which...
Page 445 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.
Page 479 - March, such was the unfortunate state of the weather, that it was not at any time in our power to have occupied a situation which would have enabled the squadron to commence offensive operations against Constantinople.
Page 479 - Bey, a minister of the Porte, came off, from whose expressions Mr Arbuthnot thought it impossible not to believe, that in the head of the government — for in the present instance every circumstance proved, that between him and the armed populace a great distinction is to be made — there really...
Page 479 - Had it been then in our power, we should then hare taken our station off the town immediately; but as that could not be done from the rapidity of the current, 1 was rather pleased than otherwise with the po.
Page 508 - Alps, as well as to the greater part of calcareous, schistous, and pyritick rocks, and also to the whole chain of the Jura. It was about a week after the fall of the mountain, that our route through Switzerland led us to visit this scene of desolation ; and never can I forget the succession of melancholy views, which presented themselves to our curiosity. In our way to it, we landed at Art, a town situated at the southern extremity of the lake of...
Page 471 - CHEMISTRY, intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People; in which the First Principles of that Science are fully explained. To which are added, Questions and other Exercises for the Examination of Pupils.
Page 425 - In building and furniture of their houses, till of late years, they used the old manner of the Saxons ; for they had their fire in the midst of the house against a hob of clay, and their oxen also under the same roof ; but within these forty years it is altogether altered, so that they have built chimnies, and furnished other parts of their houses accordingly.
Page 481 - ... weight, made such a breach between wind and water, as they have done in our sides, the ship must have sunk ; or had they struck a lower mast in the centre, it must evidently have been cut in two; in the rigging too, no accident occurred that was not perfectly arranged in the course of the next day. The sprit-sail yard of the Royal George...
Page 481 - Talbot, Harvey, and Moubray, which, from my being under the necessity of passing the Point of Pesquies before the van could anchor, he had a greater opportunity of observing than I could, cannot but be highly flattering ; but I was a more immediate witness to the able and officer-like conduct which Captain Moubray displayed in obedience to my signal, by destroying a frigate with which he had been more particularly engaged, having driven, her on shore on the European side, after she had been forced...