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Страница 291 - An Act to explain and amend an act made in the twenty-second year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, ' An Act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one Act of Parliament the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's ships, vessels, and forces by sea...
Страница 370 - ... had not in the least unhinged his mind ; his whole behaviour was natural and firm. A few days before, one of his friends standing by him said, ' Which of us is tallest ?' He replied, ' Why this ceremony ? I know what it means ; let the man come and measure me for my coffin.' He said, that, being acquitted of cowardice, and being persuaded, on the coolest reflection, that he had acted for the best, and should act so again, he was not unwilling to suffer. He desired to be shot on the quarter-deck,...
Страница 331 - you have taught me to look " for the sense of ,my subjects in another place than in
Страница 58 - But they meet at last, and long may they continue united to the comfort of each other, and to the glory, honour, and security of the nation.
Страница 63 - Rehearsal,' the choice would have been as judicious. They turned an absent poet to the management of the revenue, and employed a man as visionary as Don Quixote to combat Demosthenes.
Страница 273 - His grace retired to Claremont, where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at past sixty he affected to turn sportsman ; but getting wet in his feet, he hurried back to London in a fright, and his country was once more blessed with his assistance.
Страница 97 - In the time of the .Rebellion these Lords had proposed to raise regiments of their own dependents, and were allowed ; had they paid them too, the service had been noble : being paid by the Government, obscured a little of the merit ; being paid without raising them, would deserve too coarse a term.
Страница 291 - May last, did not do his utmost endeavour to take, seize, and destroy the ships of the French king, which it was his duty to have engaged, and to assist such of his majesty's ships as were engaged, which it was his duty to have assisted ; and that he did not exert his utmost power for the relief of St.
Страница 148 - ... genius of the three, had too much and too little of the lawyer : he refined too much, and could wrangle too little, for a popular assembly. Pitt's figure was commanding ; Murray's engaging, from a decent openness ; Fox's dark and troubled ; yet the latter was the only agreeable man. Pitt could not unbend ; Murray in private was inelegant ; Fox was cheerful, social, communicative. In conversation none of them had wit : Murray never had : Fox had in his speeches, from clearness of head and asperity...
Страница 369 - March 17, 1757. ADMIRAL BYNG'S tragedy was completed on Monday — a perfect tragedy, for there were variety of incidents, villainy, murder, and a hero. His sufferings, persecutions, aspersions, disturbances, nay, the revolutions of his fate had not in the least unhinged his mind ; his whole behaviour was natural and firm. A few days before, one of his friends standing by him, said,