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... entered a midshipman , first trod the quarter - deck of a man of war , when only fourteen . In 1766 , he accompanied the Hon . George Faulkener , as Lieutenant of the Essex , to the West Indies ; but it was not until many years after ...
... entered a midshipman , first trod the quarter - deck of a man of war , when only fourteen . In 1766 , he accompanied the Hon . George Faulkener , as Lieutenant of the Essex , to the West Indies ; but it was not until many years after ...
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... entering into or renewing it , must depend upon the discretion of the com- mander , to be exercised according to the best of his judg- ment , and subject to that responsibility which attaches to all persons in situations of command ...
... entering into or renewing it , must depend upon the discretion of the com- mander , to be exercised according to the best of his judg- ment , and subject to that responsibility which attaches to all persons in situations of command ...
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... entered into the corn trade . The house of his maternal uncle , the late Boyce Trees , who was then a very eminent factor , afforded him ample opportunities for learning all the arcana of this very important and profitable branch ...
... entered into the corn trade . The house of his maternal uncle , the late Boyce Trees , who was then a very eminent factor , afforded him ample opportunities for learning all the arcana of this very important and profitable branch ...
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... entered early into the world , and was speedily enabled to gratify his youthful ambition , by means of an alliance that pointed out the path both to honour and fortune . Having paid his addresses to the Honourable Deborah Cavendish ...
... entered early into the world , and was speedily enabled to gratify his youthful ambition , by means of an alliance that pointed out the path both to honour and fortune . Having paid his addresses to the Honourable Deborah Cavendish ...
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... entered into certain resolutions , which were soon adopted by all the volunteer corps , and grand juries of the kingdom . In October , 1783 , delegates from the corps of the province of Leinster were con- voked at the Royal Exchange ...
... entered into certain resolutions , which were soon adopted by all the volunteer corps , and grand juries of the kingdom . In October , 1783 , delegates from the corps of the province of Leinster were con- voked at the Royal Exchange ...
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Página 398 - He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest and effect to the condensed and inexhaustible information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air. of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with which he used to...