Eminent British Military Commanders ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832 |
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355 페이지 - Management of Landed Property; and of the cultivation and economy of the Animal and Vegetable Productions of Agriculture ; a general History of Agriculture; &c.
347 페이지 - There are times when men fret at trifles, and quarrel with their tooth-picks. In one of these ill habits I exclaim against the present condition, and think it the worst of all; but coolly and temperately it is plainly the best. Where there is most employment and least vice, there one should wish to be.
197 페이지 - doubt the duke of Ormond's bravery ; but he does not resemble a certain general, who led troops to the slaughter, to cause a great number of officers to be knocked on the head in a battle,
286 페이지 - a little jutty, within the concavity. On hearing us talk English, he cried out; and ropes being let down, in a little time he was drawn up, when he gave us an ample detail of the whole villany. Among other particulars, I remember, he told me
305 페이지 - Gentlemen, I will prove to you that you are mistaken ; and that I am not the duke of Marlborough. In the first place, I have but five guineas in my pocket; in the next, they are very much at your service.
298 페이지 - with relation to myself, because I know you wish me well. ... I am cured of some diseases in my old age, which tormented me very much in my youth. I was possessed
299 페이지 - and idle verses, which we painful compilers gather and hoard, till the owners stare to find themselves authors. Such was this lord; of an advantageous figure and
298 페이지 - violent and uneasy passions, such as a peevish concern for truth, and a saucy love for my country. When a Christian priest preached against the spirit of the Gospel, when an English judge determined against
222 페이지 - it should be necessary: and he assured him, that if the king should go about either to change the established religion, or to wrong the princess in her right, or to raise forged plots to destroy his friends, he would try what he could possibly do.
286 페이지 - we were led up to the fatal pit or hole, down which many had been cast headlong. There we found one poor soldier alive, who, upon his throwing in, had catched fast hold of some impending bushes, and saved himself