| Virginia - 1760 - 592 pages
...inch a 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
...inch a 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... | |
| Ann Mary Hamilton - 1811 - 672 pages
...destined never to be fulfilled; my father arrived safe in port, and immediately on his landing was seized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days. " The news of this event had nearly proved fatal to my mother; and nothing could, I believe, have enabled... | |
| Anne Plumptre - 1818 - 370 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...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
...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... | |
| Lloyd Vernon Briggs - 1898 - 392 pages
...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,... | |
| Anne Plumptre - Fiction - 1996 - 388 pages
...Monsieur and Madame de Clairville live together in undisturbed happiness, when the former was seized with a violent fever, which carried him off in a few days, and left the gay and elegant Eliza, at only nineteen years of age, a widow, with two daughters to educate... | |
| Wales - 1888 - 330 pages
...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 ill-natnred world upon this occasion failed not to insinuate that he made a rash attempt upon his... | |
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