The Quarterly Review, Volumen 62William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1838 |
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... battle . Lord Albe- marle , our ambassador at Paris , died suddenly about this time . Horace Walpole says his mistress had sold him to the French court . The secrets of any statesman , however honourably he may act according to his own ...
... battle . Lord Albe- marle , our ambassador at Paris , died suddenly about this time . Horace Walpole says his mistress had sold him to the French court . The secrets of any statesman , however honourably he may act according to his own ...
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... battle , but every ship was way towards the enemy ; the the old way of fighting , -to winter's day before the van Magnanime was the lead- pole's account , bore down -admiral's ship , with such 1 lower tier of guns . This , nanime's log ...
... battle , but every ship was way towards the enemy ; the the old way of fighting , -to winter's day before the van Magnanime was the lead- pole's account , bore down -admiral's ship , with such 1 lower tier of guns . This , nanime's log ...
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... battle and engage the enemy to leeward . Whether D'Estaing meant to accept the challenge is not known , for a strong wind sprang up , and increasing shortly to a violent storm , dispersed both fleets , and damaged both so much that any ...
... battle and engage the enemy to leeward . Whether D'Estaing meant to accept the challenge is not known , for a strong wind sprang up , and increasing shortly to a violent storm , dispersed both fleets , and damaged both so much that any ...
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... battle to the combined fleet of France and Spain . He fell in with that fleet , but owing to the im- perfection of the code of signals , after all the pains he had bestowed on it , the inexperience or inattention of some of the captains ...
... battle to the combined fleet of France and Spain . He fell in with that fleet , but owing to the im- perfection of the code of signals , after all the pains he had bestowed on it , the inexperience or inattention of some of the captains ...
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... battle . The conquest of Gibraltar , ' says Sir John Barrow , would have given to the French and Spaniards the entire command of the Mediter- ranean : the national character and honour of Great Britain would have been lost with it , and ...
... battle . The conquest of Gibraltar , ' says Sir John Barrow , would have given to the French and Spaniards the entire command of the Mediter- ranean : the national character and honour of Great Britain would have been lost with it , and ...
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