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... ferved under the admirals Shovel and Rooke : By their example he learned to conquer ; by his own merit he rofe to command . In the war with Spain of MDCCXXXIX he took the fort of Porto Bello with fix fhips ; A force which was thought ...
... ferved under the admirals Shovel and Rooke : By their example he learned to conquer ; by his own merit he rofe to command . In the war with Spain of MDCCXXXIX he took the fort of Porto Bello with fix fhips ; A force which was thought ...
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Edmund Burke. ed children ! And indeed he de- ferved this reception ; for not- withstanding the heavy war he has been engaged in , and the glo- rious end he has put to it , he has not loaded his fubjects with any new tax , nor contracted ...
Edmund Burke. ed children ! And indeed he de- ferved this reception ; for not- withstanding the heavy war he has been engaged in , and the glo- rious end he has put to it , he has not loaded his fubjects with any new tax , nor contracted ...
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... ferved the prifo- ners in the Poultry compter with bread , was lately fined feven pounds ten fhillings , for making forty - five penny loaves feventy - five ounces fhort of weight . The demand for gold in coin is now fo great , that the ...
... ferved the prifo- ners in the Poultry compter with bread , was lately fined feven pounds ten fhillings , for making forty - five penny loaves feventy - five ounces fhort of weight . The demand for gold in coin is now fo great , that the ...
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... ferved his majesty out of Great Britain or Ireland , and produc ing their difcharge from the fer- vice , who fhould take leafes of lives of any lands in the provinces of Leinster , Munfter , and Connaught , not less than five or more ...
... ferved his majesty out of Great Britain or Ireland , and produc ing their difcharge from the fer- vice , who fhould take leafes of lives of any lands in the provinces of Leinster , Munfter , and Connaught , not less than five or more ...
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... ferved fo well as they have done of their country . Account of the Sums granted this Year by the Irish Houfe of Commons , for promoting the Manufactures , Trade , and Commerce of Ireland . TO John Wetherell , for preparing and framing ...
... ferved fo well as they have done of their country . Account of the Sums granted this Year by the Irish Houfe of Commons , for promoting the Manufactures , Trade , and Commerce of Ireland . TO John Wetherell , for preparing and framing ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 206 - ... according to law and equity, and, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England...
Page 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.