The Monuments and Genii of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of Westminster Abbey: With Historical Sketches and Descriptions of Both Churches : Forming an Entirely New and Correct Biography of All that is Interesting in the Lives and Achievements of the Most Illustrious Characters of the United Kingdoms, المجلد 1John Williams, 1826 |
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... arms of England alone . Again , therefore , the fleet , consisting of 175 sail of the line , set sail , and on the first of March , 1801 , cast anchor in the bay of Aboukir . For some days after , the wind blew with a violence from the ...
... arms of England alone . Again , therefore , the fleet , consisting of 175 sail of the line , set sail , and on the first of March , 1801 , cast anchor in the bay of Aboukir . For some days after , the wind blew with a violence from the ...
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... arms of a soldier . From the field of battle , already red with victory , he was conveyed on board the flag - ship of Admiral Keith ; where he lingered in great agony for a week . Every effort to extract the ball proved vain ; a ...
... arms of a soldier . From the field of battle , already red with victory , he was conveyed on board the flag - ship of Admiral Keith ; where he lingered in great agony for a week . Every effort to extract the ball proved vain ; a ...
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... arms , in which men of gentle blood were at that period greatly caressed , and if at all deserving , seldom failed to secure a handsome com- petence . George Monk accordingly entered the naval service of his country in his seventeenth ...
... arms , in which men of gentle blood were at that period greatly caressed , and if at all deserving , seldom failed to secure a handsome com- petence . George Monk accordingly entered the naval service of his country in his seventeenth ...
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... arms to Whitehall . Monk , who was at the time engaged with Cromwell , overheard the tumult , and issuing from the Palace , met the body at Charing Cross . A few words satisfied him of the height of their excitement , and consequently ...
... arms to Whitehall . Monk , who was at the time engaged with Cromwell , overheard the tumult , and issuing from the Palace , met the body at Charing Cross . A few words satisfied him of the height of their excitement , and consequently ...
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... arms of Monk , than whom no subject ever deserved better of his king or his country . Thus happily were peace and monarchy restored to three king- doms , which for twenty years had been rent to the extreme of misery by incessant feud ...
... arms of Monk , than whom no subject ever deserved better of his king or his country . Thus happily were peace and monarchy restored to three king- doms , which for twenty years had been rent to the extreme of misery by incessant feud ...
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الصفحة 19 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
الصفحة 244 - I call upon the honor of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.
الصفحة 411 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
الصفحة 385 - Others to sin, and made my sin their door .Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when...
الصفحة 244 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
الصفحة 19 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us— And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 284 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
الصفحة 261 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense...
الصفحة 228 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
الصفحة 169 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.