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Page 53
... failed in pursuit of Van Trump , who fent his convoy be- fore , and himself retired fighting towards Bulloign . Blake ordered his light frigates to follow the mer- chants , ftill continued to harass Van Trump , and on the third day ...
... failed in pursuit of Van Trump , who fent his convoy be- fore , and himself retired fighting towards Bulloign . Blake ordered his light frigates to follow the mer- chants , ftill continued to harass Van Trump , and on the third day ...
Page 54
... failed out of the English harbours with 100 men of war , and , finding the Dutch with feventy fail on their own coafts , drove them to the Texel , and took fifty doggers . Then they failed northward in pursuit of Van Trump , who ...
... failed out of the English harbours with 100 men of war , and , finding the Dutch with feventy fail on their own coafts , drove them to the Texel , and took fifty doggers . Then they failed northward in pursuit of Van Trump , who ...
Page 57
... failing to Tripoly , he concluded a peace with that nation ; then returning to Tunis , he found nothing but fubmiffion . And fuch indeed was his reputation , that he met with no farther oppofition , but collected a kind of tribute from ...
... failing to Tripoly , he concluded a peace with that nation ; then returning to Tunis , he found nothing but fubmiffion . And fuch indeed was his reputation , that he met with no farther oppofition , but collected a kind of tribute from ...
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... failed him .on a fudden , and he fell down speechless . Then it was that his companions perceived a wound in his leg , which he had received in the first encounter , but hitherto concealed , left his men , easily discou- raged , fhould ...
... failed him .on a fudden , and he fell down speechless . Then it was that his companions perceived a wound in his leg , which he had received in the first encounter , but hitherto concealed , left his men , easily discou- raged , fhould ...
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... failed in this attempt , he would never defift from his defign , till he had fhared with Spain the treasures of America . They then refolved to return to the ifle of Pines , where they had left their fhips , and confult about the ...
... failed in this attempt , he would never defift from his defign , till he had fhared with Spain the treasures of America . They then refolved to return to the ifle of Pines , where they had left their fhips , and confult about the ...
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Page 443 - ALMIGHTY God, merciful Father, in whose hands are life and death, sanctify unto me the sorrow which I now feel. Forgive me whatever I have done unkindly to my mother, and whatever I have omitted to do kindly. Make me to remember her good precepts and good example, and to reform my life according to thy holy word, that I may lose no more opportunities of good.
Page 428 - ... stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own apathy, and considered that perhaps death itself, when it should come, would excite less horrour than seems now to attend it.
Page 423 - You willing in a short time to alleviate your trouble by some other exercise of the mind. I am not without my part of the calamity. No death since that of my Wife has ever oppressed me like this. But let us remember that we are in the hands of him who knows when to give, and when to take away, who will look upon us with mercy through all our variations of existence, and who invites us to call on him in the day of trouble. Call upon him in this great revolution of life, and call with confidence. You...
Page 352 - Monboddo's, the Scotch Judge, who has lately written a strange book about the origin of language, in which he traces monkeys up to men, and says that in some countries the human species have tails like other beasts. He inquired for these long-tailed men of Banks, and was not well pleased that they had not been found in all his peregrination. He talked nothing of this to me...
Page 303 - CHRISTIANITY; men may fometimes eagerly difpute, and yet not differ much from one another : the rigorous perfecutors of error, should, therefore, enlighten their zeal with knowledge, and temper their orthodoxy with CHARITY; that CHARITY, without which orthodoxy is vain...
Page 214 - He seemed not at first much affected by her death, but in a few days lost his sleep and his appetite, which he never recovered ; but after having lingered about two years, with many...
Page 428 - I then wrote a card to Mr. Allen, that I might have a discreet friend at hand to act as occasion should require. In penning this note I had some difficulty ; my hand, I knew not how nor why, made wrong letters.
Page 335 - Ashbourne in the Peak. Let not the barren name of the Peak terrify you ; I have never wanted strawberries and cream. The great bull has no disease but age. I hope in time to be like the great bull ; and hope you will be like him too a hundred years hence.
Page 366 - The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Page 421 - The King said in council, that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own; and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now at quiet.