The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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Page 43
... fleet : this design he executed with his usual intrepidity , and succeed- ed in it , though with the loss of three ships . He was pursued by Blake to the coast of Portugal , where he was received into the Tagus , and treated with great ...
... fleet : this design he executed with his usual intrepidity , and succeed- ed in it , though with the loss of three ships . He was pursued by Blake to the coast of Portugal , where he was received into the Tagus , and treated with great ...
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... fleet by storms and battles was now reduced to five ships , into Carthagena , he de- manded leave of the Spanish governor to attack him in the harbour , but received the same answer which had been returned before by the Portuguese ...
... fleet by storms and battles was now reduced to five ships , into Carthagena , he de- manded leave of the Spanish governor to attack him in the harbour , but received the same answer which had been returned before by the Portuguese ...
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... fleets were Van Trump , De Ruyter , and De Witt , the most celebrated names of their own nation , and who had been perhaps more renowned , had they been opposed by any other enemies . The States of Holland , having carried on their ...
... fleets were Van Trump , De Ruyter , and De Witt , the most celebrated names of their own nation , and who had been perhaps more renowned , had they been opposed by any other enemies . The States of Holland , having carried on their ...
Page 46
... fleet , without any apparent danger threatening them , or any avowed design of attacking their neighbours . This unusual armament was not beheld by the English without some jealousy , and care was taken to fit out such a fleet as might ...
... fleet , without any apparent danger threatening them , or any avowed design of attacking their neighbours . This unusual armament was not beheld by the English without some jealousy , and care was taken to fit out such a fleet as might ...
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... fleet , being the mark at which they aimed ; and , as Whitlock relates , received above a thou- sand shot . Blake , in his letter , acknowledges the particular blessing and preservation of God , and ascribes his success to the justice ...
... fleet , being the mark at which they aimed ; and , as Whitlock relates , received above a thou- sand shot . Blake , in his letter , acknowledges the particular blessing and preservation of God , and ascribes his success to the justice ...
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Page 455 - ... commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends ; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death ; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Page 338 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness, by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look, with pleasure, upon every act of virtue, to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Page 288 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain...
Page 446 - JESUS CHRIST'S sake; to whom with thee and the HOLY GHOST, three persons and one GOD, be all honour and glory, world without end, Amen."1 BOSWELL. " Pray, Mr. Dilly, how does Dr. Leland's History of Ireland sell...
Page 444 - I am afraid however that my counsel is vain, yet I have eased my heart by giving it. When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
Page 308 - His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another. He must however be confessed to have augmented our philosophical diction : and in defence of his uncommon words and expressions, we must consider, that he had uncommon sentiments, and was not content to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single...
Page 60 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience what mighty things they could do if they were resolved...
Page 284 - ... and had^[ lately declared, that " the whole world was made for man, " but only the twelfth part of man for woman ;" and, that " man is the whole world, but woman only " the rib or crooked part of man.
Page 378 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Page 216 - London, for a guinea a week. He was afterwards raised to the office of clerk of the franks, in which he acted with great spirit and firmness ; and often stopped franks, which were given by members of parliament to their friends, because he thought such extension of a peculiar right illegal. This raised many complaints, and having stopped, among others, a frank given to the old duchess of Marlborough by Mr.