The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...J. Dodsley, 1795 - History |
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... minds of men of business , who cannot pass from severe labour to severe study , with an elegant relaxation ; they preserve the strenuous idleness of many from a worse employment . These pretensions we have in common with all the other ...
... minds of men of business , who cannot pass from severe labour to severe study , with an elegant relaxation ; they preserve the strenuous idleness of many from a worse employment . These pretensions we have in common with all the other ...
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... mind amidst the per petual horror that attends a narra tive of battles and bloodshed . The garrison of Schweidnitz had seen with the greatest reluctance the capitulation which bound their hands from the service of their king and country ...
... mind amidst the per petual horror that attends a narra tive of battles and bloodshed . The garrison of Schweidnitz had seen with the greatest reluctance the capitulation which bound their hands from the service of their king and country ...
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... mind in the com . mander ; yet are they often slightly passed by as matters of no conse- quence by the generality of peo- ple , who rather consider the great- ness of the event , than the spirit of the action . Prince Ferdinand ...
... mind in the com . mander ; yet are they often slightly passed by as matters of no conse- quence by the generality of peo- ple , who rather consider the great- ness of the event , than the spirit of the action . Prince Ferdinand ...
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... mind , that render every thing in war so precarious , gave way in the presence of their sove . reign , and when they had in a manner secured the victory , retired în disorder before the half broken battalions of the Muscovites . Had the ...
... mind , that render every thing in war so precarious , gave way in the presence of their sove . reign , and when they had in a manner secured the victory , retired în disorder before the half broken battalions of the Muscovites . Had the ...
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... mind , his firmness , his activity , remedied in some measure the effects of this unforeseen attack , and the losses and disorders it had occasioned ; he was every where present , and inspired his troops with an ardour like his own ...
... mind , his firmness , his activity , remedied in some measure the effects of this unforeseen attack , and the losses and disorders it had occasioned ; he was every where present , and inspired his troops with an ardour like his own ...
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Page 325 - 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 262 - At the end of all this ceremonial a number of unmarried ladies appeared, who, with particular solemnity, lifted the meat off the, table, and conveyed it into the queen's inner and more private chamber, where, after she had chosen for herself, the rest goes to the ladies of the court.
Page 262 - Taster gave to each of the guard a mouthful to eat, of the particular dish he had brought, for fear of any poison.
Page 261 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle, of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness. Instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar, of gold and jewels.
Page 262 - A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another who had a table cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and after kneeling again, they both retired. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a...
Page 261 - English fashion, strewed with hay, through which the Queen commonly passes on her way to chapel. At the door stood a gentleman dressed in velvet, with a gold chain, whose office was to introduce to the Queen any person of distinction that came to wait on her ; it was Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of nobility. In the same hall were the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Page 261 - First went gentlemen, barons, earls, knights of the garter, all richly dressed and bare-headed: next came the chancellor, bearing the seals in a red silk purse between two; one of which carried the royal sceptre, the other the sword of state, in a red scabbard, studded with golden fleurs-de-lis, the point upwards...
Page 261 - Manner of speaking mild and obliging. That Day she was dressed in white Silk, bordered with Pearls of the Size of Beans, and over it a Mantle of black Silk, shot with Silver Threads; her Train was very...
Page 412 - Oh, let me listen to the words of life ! Raptures deep-felt His doctrine did impart, 'And thus He rais'd from earth the drooping heart. Think not, when all your scanty stores afford Is spread at once upon the sparing board ; Think not, when worn the homely robe appears, While on the roof, the howling tempest bears; What farther shall this feeble life sustain, And what shall clothe these shiv'ring limbs again. Say, does not life its nourishment exceed? And the fair body its investing weed? Behold...
Page 280 - He laid himself down to die ; and his death, I believe, was very sudden ; for he was a short, full, sanguine man. His strength was great ; and, I imagine, had he not retired with me, I should never have been able to have forced my way.