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... March 29th , 1810 . burying - place , so here Gail - aid or. E. H. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine . I SIR , N my last I corrected some mistakes of the Commentator of Richard , in the road from Durnovaria to Cenia ; I beg now to ...
... March 29th , 1810 . burying - place , so here Gail - aid or. E. H. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine . I SIR , N my last I corrected some mistakes of the Commentator of Richard , in the road from Durnovaria to Cenia ; I beg now to ...
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... march , I must own , was well conducted , and equivalent to a victory . I en- trenched myself with great dispatch , Among some prisoners that we took , and the enemy durst not attack me . there happened to be a pacha , whom designs of ...
... march , I must own , was well conducted , and equivalent to a victory . I en- trenched myself with great dispatch , Among some prisoners that we took , and the enemy durst not attack me . there happened to be a pacha , whom designs of ...
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... March I was at Dresden , and obtained a promise of king Augustus to send me a body of his troops . I then went to Hanover , and received the same promise from the elector . I proceeded to the Hague , where with all my heart I embraced ...
... March I was at Dresden , and obtained a promise of king Augustus to send me a body of his troops . I then went to Hanover , and received the same promise from the elector . I proceeded to the Hague , where with all my heart I embraced ...
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... march to his support : I directed my troops to proceed by forced marches , while I went post myself , fearful lest a battle should be fought without me . Cadogan came to compliment me to Maestricht . He told me that the French had ...
... march to his support : I directed my troops to proceed by forced marches , while I went post myself , fearful lest a battle should be fought without me . Cadogan came to compliment me to Maestricht . He told me that the French had ...
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... March last at the Freemason's Tavern , and a subse- sequent one a few days ago . The en- lightened friend of the arts will be pleas- ed to hear that it is now completely or- ganized under the direction of the follow- ing gentlemen as ...
... March last at the Freemason's Tavern , and a subse- sequent one a few days ago . The en- lightened friend of the arts will be pleas- ed to hear that it is now completely or- ganized under the direction of the follow- ing gentlemen as ...
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Page 218 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself...
Page 21 - The proverbs of several nations were much studied by Bishop Andrews, and the reason he gave was, because by them he knew the minds of several nations, which is a brave thing ; as we count him a wise man that knows the minds and insides of men, which is done by knowing what is habitual to them.
Page 6 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the...
Page 270 - ... about two-thirds of the clothing, including hosiery, and of the house and table linen, worn and used by the inhabitants of the United States, who do not reside in cities, is the product of family manufactures.
Page 217 - ... in innocency, a far better wearing. She doth not, with lying long abed, spoil both her complexion and conditions.
Page 459 - Witnesses, entirely to an alleged scarcity of that article, arising out of an unusual demand for it upon the Continent of Europe. This unusual demand for Gold upon the Continent is described by some of them as being chiefly for the use of the French Armies, though increased also by that state of alarm, and failure of confidence, which leads to the practice of hoarding.
Page 115 - Wilmot, in case we went anywhere else, and that would be very inconvenient both to him and me. So we rode directly into the best inn of the place, and found the yard very full of soldiers. I alighted, and taking the horses, thought it the best way to go blundering in among them, and lead them through the middle of the soldiers into the stable, which I did ; and they were very angry with me for my rudeness.
Page 499 - As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.
Page 298 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 460 - Bankers in order to increase their deposits, the market price of Gold never rose above the Mint price. Your Committee have still further to remark upon this point, that the Evidence laid before them has led them to entertain much doubt of the alleged fact, that a scarcity of Gold Bullion has been recently experienced in this country. That Guineas have disappeared from the circulation, there can be no question ; but that does not prove a scarcity of Bullion, any more than the high price proves that...