The Monthly Magazine, Band 34Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1812 |
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... feet wide and foy , deep . Covering all these , soldiers wely planted eight deep , the two first rank of fire as fast as they could , and those e hind to load for them . Thus preparet , he told the men , " if they stuck to the posts ...
... feet wide and foy , deep . Covering all these , soldiers wely planted eight deep , the two first rank of fire as fast as they could , and those e hind to load for them . Thus preparet , he told the men , " if they stuck to the posts ...
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... feet deep , and just behind that a flat space about six yards broad , and then a hill thrown up eight feet high . These passed , we approached a second ditch , and then the wall , which was twenty - six feet high , Against which we ...
... feet deep , and just behind that a flat space about six yards broad , and then a hill thrown up eight feet high . These passed , we approached a second ditch , and then the wall , which was twenty - six feet high , Against which we ...
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... feet contained in one line ; four characters in a line , however , is their most common measure . A great variety is also introduced into the stanzas ; some consist only of two lines , some con- tain four , others five , and some ...
... feet contained in one line ; four characters in a line , however , is their most common measure . A great variety is also introduced into the stanzas ; some consist only of two lines , some con- tain four , others five , and some ...
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... feet . Planipes Græcè dicitur Mi- mus , ideo autem Latinè Planipes , quod Actores planis pedibus , id est , nudi , pros- cenium introirent . And thus we find the complete costume of Harlequin , the shaven skull , the parti - coloured ...
... feet . Planipes Græcè dicitur Mi- mus , ideo autem Latinè Planipes , quod Actores planis pedibus , id est , nudi , pros- cenium introirent . And thus we find the complete costume of Harlequin , the shaven skull , the parti - coloured ...
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... feet high . To give you an adequate idea of the scene by description is far beyond my powers ; but for your satisfaction I shall attempt it . 6 . rising from the sea , the surface of which Imagine an immense body of smoke was marked by ...
... feet high . To give you an adequate idea of the scene by description is far beyond my powers ; but for your satisfaction I shall attempt it . 6 . rising from the sea , the surface of which Imagine an immense body of smoke was marked by ...
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Seite 117 - And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all ; which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; and over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Seite 309 - ... advantage to which he is entitled. There must always be some advantage, on one side or other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
Seite 309 - As it rarely happens that a man is fit to plead his own cause, lawyers are a class of the community, who, by study and experience, have acquired the art and power of arranging evidence and of applying to the points at issue what the law has settled. A lawyer is to do for his client all that his client might fairly do for himself if he could.
Seite 164 - Governor will adopt provisionally and recommend to the confirmation of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty...
Seite 99 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Seite 161 - Valladolid by Arevalo. They were joined yesterday on their retreat by the cavalry and artillery of the army of the north, which have arrived at too late a period, it is to be hoped, to be of much use to them. It is impossible to form a conjecture of the amount of the enemy's loss in this action ; but from all reports it is very considerable.
Seite 96 - ... which every nation gives of its origin. Upon reading this book, we find it full of prodigies and miracles. It gives an account of a state of the world and of human nature entirely different from the present: Of our fall from that state: Of the age of man, extended to near a thousand years: Of the destruction of the world by a deluge: Of the arbitrary choice of one people, as the...
Seite 161 - Clinton, to relieve the 4th, and the battle was soon restored to its former success. " The enemy's right, however, reinforced by the troops which had fled from his left, and by those which had now retired from the Arapiles, still continued to resist ; and I ordered the...
Seite 160 - ... extended his left, and moved forward his troops, apparently with an intention to embrace by the position of his troops, and by his fire, our post on that of the two Arapiles which we possessed, and from thence to attack and break our line, or, at all events, to render difficult any movement of ours to our right.
Seite 140 - Park came there after the army had posted itself; he nevertheless attempted to pass. The people began to attack him, throwing lances, pikes, arrows and stones. Mr. Park defended himself for a long time; two of his slaves at the stern of the canoe were killed...