 No other tempest was ever in this country the occasion of a parliamentary address or of a public fast. Whole fleets had been cast away. Large mansions had been blown down. One Prelate had been buried beneath the ruins of his Palace.  Transactions - Page 97by East Riding Antiquarian Society - 1899Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 586 pages
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 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 pages
...Britannia pass'd.' Addison spoke, not of a storm, but oí the storm. The great tempest of November 1703, the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane, had left a dreadful recollection in the minds of all men. No other tempest was ever in this country... | |
 | 1881 - 604 pages
...and property occasioned with that of 1703. It occurred on Nov. 46-27, and may be said to have been the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane. It is, too, the only tempest in thia country which has been made the occasion of a Parliamentary address,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...Britannia pass'd." Addison spoke, not of a storm, but of the storm. The great tempest of November 1703, the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane, had left a dreadful recollection in the minds of all men. No other tempest was ever in this country... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 332 pages
...Britannia pass'd." Addison spoke, not of a storm, but of the storm. The great tempest of November 1703, the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane, had left a dreadful recollection in the minds of all men. No other tempest was ever in this country... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 326 pages
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 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...Britannia pass'd." Addison spoke, not of a storm, but of the storm. The great tempest of November, 1703, the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane, had left a dreadful recolleetion in the minds of all men. No other tempest was ever in this country... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...Britannia pass'd." Addison spoke not of a storm, but of the storm. The great tempest of November, 1703, the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane, had left a dreadful recollection in the minds of all men. The popularity which the simile of the angel... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...Britannia pass'd." Addison spoke, not of a storm, but of tfie storm. The great tempest of November, 1703, the only tempest which in our latitude has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane, had left a dreadful recollection in the minds of all men. No other tempest was ever in this country... | |
 | Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 pages
...terrific tempest in the commencement of Ainsworth's " Jack Shepherd." Macaulay says of it, " It was the only tempest which, in our latitude, has equalled the rage of a tropical hurricane. No other tempest was ever in this country the occasion of a Parliamentary address, or of a national... | |
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