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... relation : One of the boats being hoisted out , Lieutenant Wedgeborough was sent in her to examine a channel to the westward of the place where the ships lay , and also to gain an intercourse with the natives . Soon after the boat had ...
... relation : One of the boats being hoisted out , Lieutenant Wedgeborough was sent in her to examine a channel to the westward of the place where the ships lay , and also to gain an intercourse with the natives . Soon after the boat had ...
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... relation's : as they appeared grieved at parting with them , Captain McCluer proposed that they should return home ; but to this proposition they would not listen , requesting they might be permitted to cry , for only half an hour , and ...
... relation's : as they appeared grieved at parting with them , Captain McCluer proposed that they should return home ; but to this proposition they would not listen , requesting they might be permitted to cry , for only half an hour , and ...
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... relation of these transactions , for which we must refer to the original . Their behaviour to the English appears to have been dictated by friendship , and by a grateful sense of benefit received . The sequel of the history of English ...
... relation of these transactions , for which we must refer to the original . Their behaviour to the English appears to have been dictated by friendship , and by a grateful sense of benefit received . The sequel of the history of English ...
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... relation to him than every other attorney is to his employer ; and it is by degrees that he hath attained to that rank which he now holds in the law . 66 I find no traces of such an officer for centuries after the conquest ; and that ...
... relation to him than every other attorney is to his employer ; and it is by degrees that he hath attained to that rank which he now holds in the law . 66 I find no traces of such an officer for centuries after the conquest ; and that ...
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... relations of the deceased , whom I did not know , incur so formidable a censure , she acquiesced . ear : " don't The following morning was appointed for the dissection . That operation was accordingly performed ; and as it was not ...
... relations of the deceased , whom I did not know , incur so formidable a censure , she acquiesced . ear : " don't The following morning was appointed for the dissection . That operation was accordingly performed ; and as it was not ...
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Page 247 - ... forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe, or string, or any such thing ; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and, as you advance, will keep you still...
Page 250 - As in Dodona once thy kindred trees Oracular, I would not curious ask The future, best unknown, but at thy mouth Inquisitive, the less ambiguous past. By thee I might correct, erroneous oft, The clock of history, facts and events Timing more punctual, unrecorded facts Recovering, and misstated setting right...
Page 242 - If I trifle, and merely trifle, it is because I am reduced to it by necessity - a melancholy, that nothing else so effectually disperses, engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And, strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood, and, but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all.
Page 250 - Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp.
Page 335 - His Catholic Majesty .promises and engages on his part, to cede to the French Republic, six months after the full and entire execution of the conditions and stipulations herein relative to His Royal Highness the Duke of Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 247 - ... play, of the modern day ; and though she assume a borrowed plume, and now and then wear a tittering air, 'tis only her plan, to catch, if she can, the giddy and gay, as they go that way, by a production N2 on a new construction. She has baited her trap, in hopes to snap all that may come, with a sugar-plum.
Page 56 - The gather'd wisdom of a thousand years/'— if you will allow me to parody a line of Pope. I do not see why the study of the law is called dry and unpleasant; and I very much suspect that it seems so to those only, who would think any study unpleasant, which required a great application of the mind, and exertion of the memory.
Page 177 - ... errors for truths, prejudices for principles; and when that is once done (no matter how vainly and weakly), the adhering perhaps to false and dangerous notions, only because one has declared for them, and submitting, for life, the understanding and conscience to a yoke of base and servile prejudices, vainly taken up and obstinately retained.
Page 384 - He is indeed a careless writer for the most part ; but where shall we find in any of those authors who finish their works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring strokes of fancy, those numbers so hazardously ventured upon and so happily finished, the matter so compressed and yet so clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet witli such a beautiful effect...
Page 52 - ... in the cause which was trying is killed, and I am afraid some others: there were many wounded and bruised. It was the most frightful scene I ever beheld. I was just beginning to sum up the evidence, in the Cause which was trying, to the jury, and intending to go immediately after I had finished: most of the counsel were...