A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Volumen 1Blackie & Son, 1847 |
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... sent to anchor higher up the bay , at the distance of about five miles from the town of Port d'Espagne . Dispositions were immediately made for attacking the town and the ships of war next morning by break of day . By two o'clock of the ...
... sent to anchor higher up the bay , at the distance of about five miles from the town of Port d'Espagne . Dispositions were immediately made for attacking the town and the ships of war next morning by break of day . By two o'clock of the ...
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... sent out in the month of June , 1800 , to take the command of the troops sent out upon a se- cret expedition to the Mediterranean , and which were for the time quartered on the island of Minorca , where he arrived on the 22d of June ...
... sent out in the month of June , 1800 , to take the command of the troops sent out upon a se- cret expedition to the Mediterranean , and which were for the time quartered on the island of Minorca , where he arrived on the 22d of June ...
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... sent off under the charge of a man who carried him on horseback , the journey being rendered additionally danger- ous by a deep snow . The horse happened to stumble , the man fell off , and the tiny wretch was ejected from the basket ...
... sent off under the charge of a man who carried him on horseback , the journey being rendered additionally danger- ous by a deep snow . The horse happened to stumble , the man fell off , and the tiny wretch was ejected from the basket ...
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... sent for , and similarly interrogated , he charged them in the face of the magistrates , to preserve his secret . All this was the more singular , as his own principles were known to be eminently loyal . Respect for his talents and ...
... sent for , and similarly interrogated , he charged them in the face of the magistrates , to preserve his secret . All this was the more singular , as his own principles were known to be eminently loyal . Respect for his talents and ...
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... sent what Johnson says of the execution . “ These memoirs , " says the doctor , in his life of Pope , " extend only to the first part of a work projected in concert by Pope , Swift , and Arbuthnot . Their purpose was to censure the ...
... sent what Johnson says of the execution . “ These memoirs , " says the doctor , in his life of Pope , " extend only to the first part of a work projected in concert by Pope , Swift , and Arbuthnot . Their purpose was to censure the ...
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Página 6 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 43 - I'll neither grieve nor yet rejoice, To see him gain what I have lost ; The height of my disdain shall be, To laugh at him, to blush for thee ; To love thee still, but go no more A begging to a beggar's door.
Página 218 - Go, and tell this people, HEAR ye indeed, but understand not; And see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, And make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Página 35 - What I did, I can assure you was not for life, but ease ; for I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbour, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of going to a good place, and an absolute certainty of leaving a very bad one. Not that I have any particular disgust at the world ; for I have as great comfort in my own family and from the kindness of my friends as any man ; but the world, in the main, displeases me, and I have too true a presentiment of calamities...
Página 165 - ... pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast...
Página 35 - My family give you their love and service. The great loss I sustained in one of them, gave me my first shock ; and the trouble I have with the rest, to bring them to a right temper, to bear the loss of a father, who loves them, and whom they love, is really a most sensible affliction to me. I am afraid, my dear friend, we shall never see one another more in this world.
Página 281 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Página 6 - ... of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him, more than any other person; but it is some consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that as his life was honourable, so was his death glorious. His memory will be recorded in the annals of his country — will be sacred to every British soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity.
Página 81 - These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Página 95 - Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled, as well as to rule, and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...