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... seemed to be turned into a sea . It cannot be said how much the rebels were hereby encouraged , and the king's men discouraged . The former came presently forth with their fleet , which consisted of about one hundred and fifty bottoms ...
... seemed to be turned into a sea . It cannot be said how much the rebels were hereby encouraged , and the king's men discouraged . The former came presently forth with their fleet , which consisted of about one hundred and fifty bottoms ...
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... seemed to him more important than the lives of the Genoese , and such provisions as remained were reserved in the first place for the French army . Scarcity became utter want , and want became famine . In the most gorgeous palaces of ...
... seemed to him more important than the lives of the Genoese , and such provisions as remained were reserved in the first place for the French army . Scarcity became utter want , and want became famine . In the most gorgeous palaces of ...
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... seemed to have no end , would even at this late hour have abandoned the siege ; and they earnestly solicited the queen's appearance in the camp , in the hope that she would herself countenance this measure on witnessing their suffer ...
... seemed to have no end , would even at this late hour have abandoned the siege ; and they earnestly solicited the queen's appearance in the camp , in the hope that she would herself countenance this measure on witnessing their suffer ...
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... seemed to the affrighted inhabitants , as if the fiends of the air had come upon the wings of the wind , and pos- sessed themselves of tower and turret . The war - cry resounded on every side , shout answering shout , above , below , on ...
... seemed to the affrighted inhabitants , as if the fiends of the air had come upon the wings of the wind , and pos- sessed themselves of tower and turret . The war - cry resounded on every side , shout answering shout , above , below , on ...
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... seemed approaching . Maurice of Nassau , in complete armour , sword in hand , with the orange plumes waving from his helmet , and the orange scarf across his breast , rode through the lines , briefly addressing his soldiers with martial ...
... seemed approaching . Maurice of Nassau , in complete armour , sword in hand , with the orange plumes waving from his helmet , and the orange scarf across his breast , rode through the lines , briefly addressing his soldiers with martial ...
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Page 166 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Page 165 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 66 - Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity: men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our hopes, was suddenly taken from us; and it seemed as if we had never till then known how deeply we loved and reverenced him.
Page 285 - ... daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.
Page 83 - Roman empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 166 - ... for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated...
Page 137 - ... all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked much of the inconsistency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories — but the history of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, answered and refuted her.
Page 166 - You well know, Gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness ; how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ; how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Page 193 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 285 - Sometimes one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our...