Annual Register, Band 6Edmund Burke 1764 |
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... body of feamen and marines , were appointed to act with them . Some companies of feapoys ( Indian foldiers who ferve after the European manner ) were added . In the whole , the force for the land operations amounted to two thoufand ...
... body of feamen and marines , were appointed to act with them . Some companies of feapoys ( Indian foldiers who ferve after the European manner ) were added . In the whole , the force for the land operations amounted to two thoufand ...
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... body ; the land and fea forces , by common confent , were mutually to participate in the diftribution of their feveral cap- tures , according to the rules efta- blifhed in the navy . Thefe precau- tions had fo good an effect , that no ...
... body ; the land and fea forces , by common confent , were mutually to participate in the diftribution of their feveral cap- tures , according to the rules efta- blifhed in the navy . Thefe precau- tions had fo good an effect , that no ...
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... body , confifting of Indians , and of a ftrong detach- ment from the Spanith garrifon , were to attack a church , which lay near the fea , covered a flank of the army , and had been of great con- fequence for protecting the be- fiegers ...
... body , confifting of Indians , and of a ftrong detach- ment from the Spanith garrifon , were to attack a church , which lay near the fea , covered a flank of the army , and had been of great con- fequence for protecting the be- fiegers ...
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... body of Spaniards who had begun to affemble on the baftion , which was the object of the attack , were dispersed by the explosion of fome shells . The English took immediate advantage of this event , By the fignal of a general discharge ...
... body of Spaniards who had begun to affemble on the baftion , which was the object of the attack , were dispersed by the explosion of fome shells . The English took immediate advantage of this event , By the fignal of a general discharge ...
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... body to fall back. frontiers . They gave themselves up entirely to the French intereft , and their masters , the Iroquois , rather encouraged than reftrained them . By degrees they attained a practice and a reputation in arms , which ...
... body to fall back. frontiers . They gave themselves up entirely to the French intereft , and their masters , the Iroquois , rather encouraged than reftrained them . By degrees they attained a practice and a reputation in arms , which ...
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Seite 181 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, And will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, And give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles ; To open the blind eyes, To bring out the prisoners from the prison, And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Seite 181 - And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he should live.
Seite 39 - think proper to be gone from you ; however, that you " may not want company, I have left you the bear, as the " moft fuitable companion in the world that could be
Seite 278 - ... which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox: they make parties for this purpose and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox and asks what vein you please to have opened.
Seite 284 - Vizier's ; and the very house confessed the difference between an old devotee and a young beauty. It was nicely clean and magnificent. I was met at the door by two black eunuchs, who led me through a long gallery between two ranks of beautiful young girls, with their hair finely plaited, almost hanging to their feet, all dressed in fine light damasks, brocaded with silver. I was sorry that decency did not permit me to stop to consider them nearer.
Seite 136 - ... in confequence of the heavy charge brought againft you, for being the author of an infamous and feditious libel, tending to inflame the minds, and alienate the affections of the people from...
Seite 206 - Councils, and the Representatives of the People so to be summoned as aforesaid, to make, constitute, and ordain Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances for the Public Peace, Welfare, and good Government of our said Colonies, and of the People and Inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of England...
Seite 206 - ... according to law and equity, and, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England...
Seite 286 - ... maids were ranged below the sofa to the number of twenty, and put me in mind of the pictures of the ancient nymphs. I did not think all nature could have furnished such a scene of beauty. She made them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied with their voices, while the others danced by turns. This dance was very different from what I had seen before.