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Seite 508 - THERE is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found : They softly lie, and sweetly sleep, Low in the ground. The...
Seite 301 - ... served on shore with the army four months, and commanded the batteries at the sieges of Bastia and Calvi...
Seite 305 - After the play, the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Temple, Judges, and Benchers, retired into their parliament chamber, and in about half an hour afterwards came into the hall again, and a large ring was formed round the...
Seite 305 - Prothonotnry, then of sixty : and all the time of the dance, the ancient song, accompanied with music, was sung by one Toby Aston, dressed in a bar-gown, whose father had been formerly Master of the Plea-office, in the King's Bench.
Seite 65 - ... on its extensive waters. The purchase from the Creeks, too, has been for some time particularly interesting to the State of Georgia. The several treaties which have been mentioned will be submitted to both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their respective functions. Deputations now on their way to the seat of Government from various nations of Indians inhabiting the Missouri and other parts beyond the Mississippi come charged with...
Seite 232 - At one, PM the Captain having passed the sternmost of the enemy's ships, which formed their van and part of their centre, consisting of seventeen sail of the line, they on the larboard, we on the starboard tack, the admiral made the signal to tack in succession...
Seite 199 - I have not only to lament, in common with the British navy, and the British Nation, in the fall of the Commander-in-Chief, the loss of a hero, whose name will be immortal, and his memory ever dear to his country; but my heart is rent with the most poignant grief for the death of a friend, to whom, by many years...
Seite 305 - ... the Master of the Revels, who went first, took the Lord Chancellor by the right hand, and he with his left took Mr. Justice Page, who, joined to the other Judges, Serjeants, and Benchers present, danced, or rather walked, round about the coal fire...
Seite 341 - I was in possession of, that they were endeavouring to fonn a junction with their remaining . force, and in consequence shaped my course to render abortive such intention, which was completely effected by a little after nine, so as to make an action certain. I therefore telegraphed the squadron, that the principal object of attack would be the admiral and his seconds, and at three quarters past nine, for the ships to take stations for their mutual support, and engage the enemy as they got up, and...
Seite 305 - House, shook hands with him, and made him a present, in remembrance of his services at that time. The man took from his bosom a piece of lace, which he had torn from the sleeve of the amputated limb, saying, he had preserved, and would preserve it to the last moment, in memory of his old commander.