 | Virginia - 1760 - 592 pages
...degree, that, we are told, he fwooned away at the firft hearing of it. He was quickly after feized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days. His ambaffadors, and their adherents, were thereupon ordered to appear before the grand matter, and... | |
 | World history - 1760 - 586 pages
...degree, that, we are told, he fwooned away at the lirft hearing of it. He was quickly after feized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days. His ambafladors-, and their adherents, were thereupon ordered to appear before the grand mafter, and... | |
 | Universal history - 1780 - 506 pages
...neighbourhood, and began his march back to the Rhine 1 but, before he reached that river, he was feized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days. Auguftus, upon the firft notice of his illnefs, fent an exprefs to Tiberius, who thereupon haftened... | |
 | Annabella Plumptre - 1818 - 370 pages
...the great change which took place in my fortunes in the short space of only two months. My brother was seized with a violent fever which carried him off in a few days, and my father survived him but two months. Thus was I on a sudden master of a very large fortune, and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...but while he was considering whether he should penetrate further into these northern countries, he was seized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few day?. He was succeeded in his command by Tiberius, who is reported to have done great things, but certainly... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...but, while he was considering whether he should penetrate further into these northern countries, he was seized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days. He was succeeded in the command by Tiberius, who is reported to have done great things, but certainly... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1888 - 564 pages
...him to go to Batb, and the waten bad some effect upon him ; but upon hia return to the metropolis he was seized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days. The ill-natured world upon this occasion failed not to insinuate that he made a rash attempt upon his life,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Discoveries in geography - 1880 - 464 pages
...short excursion in the neighbourhood of Kukawa, Mr. Overweg got wet, caught a chill, and was afterwards seized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few hours (September 27th). He died, a martyr to science, and one of the many victims of African exploration,... | |
 | Shropshire (England) - 1889 - 308 pages
...him to go to Bath, and the waters had some etfect upon him; but upon his return to the Metropolis, he was seized with a violent fever, which carried him off In a few ¿ays. The ill-natured world npon this occasion failed not to Insinuate) that he made a rash attempt... | |
 | Lloyd Vernon Briggs - 1898 - 392 pages
...safety, and still attached to the course of life he had chosen. On his return from his second voyage he was seized with a violent fever which carried him off in a few days, on the llth of Sept., 1791, at the age of -¿2 years. I have 5 letters written by him to his parents,... | |
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Bath, and the waters had some effect upon him ; but upon his return to the metropolis he was seized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days. The... 
