Anthologia Hibernica: Or, Monthly Collections of Science, Belles-lettres, and History ..., Volume 3R. E. Mercier, and Company, 1794 |
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... officer to whofe care he was afligned , going in a hurry with the king from Whitehall to Theobald's , left Nixon locked up without provifions , by which accident he was unfortunately starved to death . A French writer complains , that ...
... officer to whofe care he was afligned , going in a hurry with the king from Whitehall to Theobald's , left Nixon locked up without provifions , by which accident he was unfortunately starved to death . A French writer complains , that ...
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... Officer . OFFICER . My leige ! the brave Egyptians ftill refuse To own our victory , though great Abradates , With more than human valour , doth affail them . CYRUS . Virtue in a foe We wish to fave them . Demands compaffion . To arms ...
... Officer . OFFICER . My leige ! the brave Egyptians ftill refuse To own our victory , though great Abradates , With more than human valour , doth affail them . CYRUS . Virtue in a foe We wish to fave them . Demands compaffion . To arms ...
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... officer to whom that duty was entrusted blew them up , by which two fine gunboats , which I had ordered to attend fir ... officers and feamen killed and wounded at Fort Mulgrave on the 17th . I have the honour , & c . HOOD . P. S. The ...
... officer to whom that duty was entrusted blew them up , by which two fine gunboats , which I had ordered to attend fir ... officers and feamen killed and wounded at Fort Mulgrave on the 17th . I have the honour , & c . HOOD . P. S. The ...
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... officers to fire the hips in the bafon before the town , ' but they returned , and reported that various obftacles had prevented their opening it . We attempted it together as foon as we had , completed the bufinefs in the arfenal , but ...
... officers to fire the hips in the bafon before the town , ' but they returned , and reported that various obftacles had prevented their opening it . We attempted it together as foon as we had , completed the bufinefs in the arfenal , but ...
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... officers affembled . They determined on the impracticability of reftoring the poits we had loft , and on the confequent propriety of the speedieft evacu- ation of the town , evidently , and by the report of the engineers and artillery ...
... officers affembled . They determined on the impracticability of reftoring the poits we had loft , and on the confequent propriety of the speedieft evacu- ation of the town , evidently , and by the report of the engineers and artillery ...
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