The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: and a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763, Volume 5William Young Birch and Abraham Small, 1802 - Europe |
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... equal , if not superior ta- lents , who hoped , by such a coalition , to humble their successful rivals , and get into their own hands the highest employments of the state . Mr. Pulteney , the finest speaker of the house of commons ...
... equal , if not superior ta- lents , who hoped , by such a coalition , to humble their successful rivals , and get into their own hands the highest employments of the state . Mr. Pulteney , the finest speaker of the house of commons ...
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... equal contempt for party- rage and popular opinion , paid little regard to these vio- lent invectives or seditious clamours . Strongly convinced of the importance of peace to a trading nation , he en- deavoured to obtain , by ...
... equal contempt for party- rage and popular opinion , paid little regard to these vio- lent invectives or seditious clamours . Strongly convinced of the importance of peace to a trading nation , he en- deavoured to obtain , by ...
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... equal disgrace . Being attacked by a furious storm in passing Cape Horn , two of his ships were obliged to re- turn in distress : one was lost ; another was so much damag- ed as to be abandoned soon after ; and the greater part of his ...
... equal disgrace . Being attacked by a furious storm in passing Cape Horn , two of his ships were obliged to re- turn in distress : one was lost ; another was so much damag- ed as to be abandoned soon after ; and the greater part of his ...
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... equal in value to forty - three thousand six hua- dred and eleven dollars . single single ship seemed to point out what might be performed LET . XXVII . ] MODERN EUROPE . Sails for Acapulco, in hopes of intercepting the Manilla galleon ...
... equal in value to forty - three thousand six hua- dred and eleven dollars . single single ship seemed to point out what might be performed LET . XXVII . ] MODERN EUROPE . Sails for Acapulco, in hopes of intercepting the Manilla galleon ...
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... equal in numbers , met at Molwitz , a village in the neighbourhood of the town of Neiss , and within a league of the river of the same name . There a desperate battle was fought . The action lasted from two in the afternoon till six in ...
... equal in numbers , met at Molwitz , a village in the neighbourhood of the town of Neiss , and within a league of the river of the same name . There a desperate battle was fought . The action lasted from two in the afternoon till six in ...
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Page 448 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 447 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 426 - Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold * : His genuine and less guilty wealth t...
Page 427 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Page 317 - The stream was rapid, the shore shelving, the bank above lined with sentinels, the landing-place so narrow as to be easily missed in the dark, and the steepness of the ground such as hardly to be surmounted in the daytime.
Page 50 - A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! I could raise fifty of them within the four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Page 432 - E'er draw thy sad, thy mindful tears. No, freedom, no, I will not tell How Rome, before thy weeping face, With heaviest sound, a giant-statue, fell, Pushed by a wild and artless race From off its wide ambitious base, When time his northern sons of spoil awoke, And all the blended work of strength and grace, With many a rude repeated stroke, And many a barbarous yell, to thousand fragments broke.
Page 430 - But pliant nature more or less demands, As custom forms her; and all sudden change She hates of habit, even from bad to good. If faults in life, or new emergencies, From habits urge you by long time confirm'd, Slow may the change arrive, and stage by stage; Slow as the shadow o'er the dial moves, Slow as the stealing progress of the year.
Page 431 - Mark, how the dread Pantheon stands, Amid the domes of modern hands : Amid the toys of idle state, How simply, how severely great ! Then turn, and, while each western clime Presents her tuneful sons to Time, So mark thou Milton's name ; And add, " Thus differs from the throng The spirit which inform'd thy awful song, Which bade thy potent voice protect thy country's fame.
Page 428 - Who knows, but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?