Annual Register of World Events, Volume 251800 - History |
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... Admiral Sir Edward Hughes ( who command- ed the British fquadron in the In- dian feas ) as containing fuch evi- dent teftimonies of his hoftile dif- pofition , that he thought it his duty to difpatch a copy of it home to the fecretary ...
... Admiral Sir Edward Hughes ( who command- ed the British fquadron in the In- dian feas ) as containing fuch evi- dent teftimonies of his hoftile dif- pofition , that he thought it his duty to difpatch a copy of it home to the fecretary ...
Page 76
... admiral than with the prefi- dency , as an anfwer to the letter which he had fo lately written upon the fubject ; they alfo requested that he would , if poffible , direct the operations of his fquadron against Hyder's ports and flipping ...
... admiral than with the prefi- dency , as an anfwer to the letter which he had fo lately written upon the fubject ; they alfo requested that he would , if poffible , direct the operations of his fquadron against Hyder's ports and flipping ...
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... admiral , to co - operate with the general to the utmost in every measure for the attack of the place . The great difficulty lay in landing the artillery ( which were fupplied by the fquadron ) through a great and dangerous furf . This ...
... admiral , to co - operate with the general to the utmost in every measure for the attack of the place . The great difficulty lay in landing the artillery ( which were fupplied by the fquadron ) through a great and dangerous furf . This ...
Page 92
... admiral and general fent a joint letter of fummons to the Dutch governor ; which he answered with great refpect , but no less firmness . The garrifon made two defpe- rate fallies with almoft their whole force , but were beat back into ...
... admiral and general fent a joint letter of fummons to the Dutch governor ; which he answered with great refpect , but no less firmness . The garrifon made two defpe- rate fallies with almoft their whole force , but were beat back into ...
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... admiral , that he was ftrongly of opinion that the lower fort , at leaft , might be car- ried by affault ; fome of the higher works he had his doubts about ; but of the former , he fpoke with confidence , and the others muft fall of ...
... admiral , that he was ftrongly of opinion that the lower fort , at leaft , might be car- ried by affault ; fome of the higher works he had his doubts about ; but of the former , he fpoke with confidence , and the others muft fall of ...
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Page 322 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those...
Page 322 - Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 208 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Page 323 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 323 - Ocean: east by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Page 208 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Page 323 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; -thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Page 205 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Page 205 - ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Page 205 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.