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... French never could cope with us at sea ; ever after it , whether engaging our fleets , with their own , or in junction with the Spaniard , they sustained signal and total overthrows . As certain was the same issue in all single combats ...
... French never could cope with us at sea ; ever after it , whether engaging our fleets , with their own , or in junction with the Spaniard , they sustained signal and total overthrows . As certain was the same issue in all single combats ...
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... French language , which he acquired with particular facility , and spoke better than most Englishmen . The beginning of the French Revolution , at this time so interesting to the world at large , too strongly excited his mind to allow ...
... French language , which he acquired with particular facility , and spoke better than most Englishmen . The beginning of the French Revolution , at this time so interesting to the world at large , too strongly excited his mind to allow ...
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... French Fleet . The Invincible engaged the Juste , of 84 guns , a ship vastly superior to her in force , ( she carried nearly 300 more men - her tonnage was upwards of 2100 , the Invincible's little above 1600 , and there must have been ...
... French Fleet . The Invincible engaged the Juste , of 84 guns , a ship vastly superior to her in force , ( she carried nearly 300 more men - her tonnage was upwards of 2100 , the Invincible's little above 1600 , and there must have been ...
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... French frigates ( the one of 40 guns , carry- ing a broad pendant , the other of thirty - six ) in the act of getting under weigh ; and making preparations to set all sail , I judged it prudent ( crowding every thing I could ) to steer ...
... French frigates ( the one of 40 guns , carry- ing a broad pendant , the other of thirty - six ) in the act of getting under weigh ; and making preparations to set all sail , I judged it prudent ( crowding every thing I could ) to steer ...
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... French frigates , each of which had been since clearly ascertained to be nearly double your own force . " And adds , " I much doubt , sir , whe- ther our naval annals can furnish so brilliant an action ; at least , I can safely affirm a ...
... French frigates , each of which had been since clearly ascertained to be nearly double your own force . " And adds , " I much doubt , sir , whe- ther our naval annals can furnish so brilliant an action ; at least , I can safely affirm a ...
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Page 31 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 295 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round, it measures Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
Page 296 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 304 - 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 304 - He resolved, in . the gloomy recesses of a mind 'capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 42 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals,* no palaces, no schools; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 67 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 305 - 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 92 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth : Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love Me and keep My Commandments.
Page 30 - ... than the opinions of many would go along with me. — In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress — I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.