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... towns as were conveni- ent to them , without any ceremony : yet freed from all these restraints , their army had made very little pro- gress ; their generals had not dis- played any great abilities , and their army , in itself very ...
... towns as were conveni- ent to them , without any ceremony : yet freed from all these restraints , their army had made very little pro- gress ; their generals had not dis- played any great abilities , and their army , in itself very ...
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... town of Bamberg surren- May 16. dered upon terms ; but some confusion happening before the capitulation was completely finished , a party of Croats came to blows with a party of Prussians , who had by this time possession of one of the ...
... town of Bamberg surren- May 16. dered upon terms ; but some confusion happening before the capitulation was completely finished , a party of Croats came to blows with a party of Prussians , who had by this time possession of one of the ...
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... towns consi- derable in this part of the world , for their magnitude , trade , and strength . By this short description may be discerned how desirable such a con- quest was , and the difficulties which naturally opposed themseves to it ...
... towns consi- derable in this part of the world , for their magnitude , trade , and strength . By this short description may be discerned how desirable such a con- quest was , and the difficulties which naturally opposed themseves to it ...
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... town of Basse Terre , the capital of the island ; a piace of considerable extent , large trade , and defended by a strong fortress . This fortress , in the opinion of the chief engineer , was not to be re- duced by the shipping . But ...
... town of Basse Terre , the capital of the island ; a piace of considerable extent , large trade , and defended by a strong fortress . This fortress , in the opinion of the chief engineer , was not to be re- duced by the shipping . But ...
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... town of Basse Terre , called Dos d'Asne , or the Ass's Back thither a great part of the enemy had retired . It is a post of great strength , and great importance , as it keeps a watch upon the town , and at the same time forms the only ...
... town of Basse Terre , called Dos d'Asne , or the Ass's Back thither a great part of the enemy had retired . It is a post of great strength , and great importance , as it keeps a watch upon the town , and at the same time forms the only ...
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Page 477 - This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Page 478 - All animals that bite the grass or browse the shrub, whether wild or tame, wandered in this extensive circuit, secured from beasts of prey by the mountains which confined them. On one part were flocks and herds feeding in the pastures, on another all the beasts of chase frisking in the lawns; the sprightly kid was bounding on the rocks, the subtle monkey frolicking in the trees, and the solemn elephant reposing in the shade.
Page 319 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an...
Page 478 - Such was the appearance of security and delight which this retirement afforded that they to whom it was new always desired that it might be perpetual, and, as those on whom the iron gate had once closed were never suffered to return, the effect of longer experience could not be known.
Page 479 - The birds peck the berries or the corn and fly away to the groves, where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds. I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer; but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me today and will grow yet more wearisome tomorrow.
Page 430 - The misery of gaols is not half their evil ; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair.
Page 486 - Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his sensations.
Page 477 - From the mountains on every side, rivulets descended that filled all the valley with verdure and fertility, and formed a lake in the middle inhabited by fish of every species, and frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water.
Page 488 - We sometimes feel for another, a passion of which he himself seems to be altogether incapable; because, when we put ourselves in his case, that passion arises in our breast from the imagination, though it does not in his from the reality.
Page 485 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner.