The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volumen 4George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton & Company, 1863 |
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... France and Spain in the bay of Gibraltar amounted to forty - eight sail of the line . Their batteries were covered with one hundred and fifty - four pieces of heavy brass cannon . The numbers employed by land and sea against the for ...
... France and Spain in the bay of Gibraltar amounted to forty - eight sail of the line . Their batteries were covered with one hundred and fifty - four pieces of heavy brass cannon . The numbers employed by land and sea against the for ...
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... France to recover her marine , and by degrees to acquire the best part of a fishery from which she ought to have been entirely excluded . " In reply to this , it was argued : " That France would never have agreed to a total dereliction ...
... France to recover her marine , and by degrees to acquire the best part of a fishery from which she ought to have been entirely excluded . " In reply to this , it was argued : " That France would never have agreed to a total dereliction ...
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... France had only one conquest to restore , Minorca ; and for this island , we had given her the East Indies , the West Indies , and Africa . The advocates for the peace defended these concessions on the following grounds : " The original ...
... France had only one conquest to restore , Minorca ; and for this island , we had given her the East Indies , the West Indies , and Africa . The advocates for the peace defended these concessions on the following grounds : " The original ...
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... France and Spain had declared that without the restitution of the islands and the Havannah , peace could be of no ser- vice to them ; that they would rather hazard the continuance of the war --which , in the long run , must exhaust the ...
... France and Spain had declared that without the restitution of the islands and the Havannah , peace could be of no ser- vice to them ; that they would rather hazard the continuance of the war --which , in the long run , must exhaust the ...
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... France and set limits to the ambition of Louis XIV . , had the perpetuity of his grant of £ 5000 a - year refused him by the commons . Lord Camden felt for the honour of his deceased friend , and spoke in support of the bill with an ...
... France and set limits to the ambition of Louis XIV . , had the perpetuity of his grant of £ 5000 a - year refused him by the commons . Lord Camden felt for the honour of his deceased friend , and spoke in support of the bill with an ...
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The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of ..., Volumen 4 George Godfrey Cunningham Vista de fragmentos - 1863 |
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Página 174 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Página 192 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
Página 294 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Página 296 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Página 305 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless 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 196 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, Churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I.
Página 178 - But Johnson informed me that he had made the bargain for Goldsmith, and the price was sixty pounds. "And, Sir," said he, "a sufficient price too, when it was sold; for then the fame of Goldsmith had not been elevated, as it afterwards was, by his 'Traveller...
Página 289 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
Página 289 - English artists are most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity, derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend upon it from a higher sphere.
Página 310 - I have already more than once had occasion to refer to, has often told me that he was seldom more grieved, than when riding into Dumfries one fine summer evening about this rime to attend a county ball, he saw Burns walking alone, on the shady side of the principal street of the town, while the opposite side was gay with successive groups of gentlemen and ladies, all drawn together for the festivities of the night, not one of whom appeared willing to recognise him.