Analectic Magazine: Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, 8. kötetJames Maxwell, 1816 |
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... Ameri- can privateers in the neighbourhood , they might come up in the night and destroy the town , which could be easily done , as the citizens were in great alarm , and unprepared to resist a sudden attack . The want of powder was one ...
... Ameri- can privateers in the neighbourhood , they might come up in the night and destroy the town , which could be easily done , as the citizens were in great alarm , and unprepared to resist a sudden attack . The want of powder was one ...
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... Ameri- eans in it . " My object is not , at present , to examine and criticise with any minuteness this official letter . I therefore do not stop to repel the unmerited reproach which is attempted to be fixed upon the character of our ...
... Ameri- eans in it . " My object is not , at present , to examine and criticise with any minuteness this official letter . I therefore do not stop to repel the unmerited reproach which is attempted to be fixed upon the character of our ...
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... Ameri- can naval chronology - a victory in squadron ! " alluding to Perry's victory of the 10th September , 1813 , on Lake Erie . It appears that he had not , at the time of writing this , heard of just such * Mr. Davis another victory ...
... Ameri- can naval chronology - a victory in squadron ! " alluding to Perry's victory of the 10th September , 1813 , on Lake Erie . It appears that he had not , at the time of writing this , heard of just such * Mr. Davis another victory ...
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... Ameri- can 44's were built in 1798 ; and the United States had become so weak in her upper works that commodore Decatur , in his letter to sir Thomas Hardy off New - London , states her to mount but 49 guns , when we know she carried 56 ...
... Ameri- can 44's were built in 1798 ; and the United States had become so weak in her upper works that commodore Decatur , in his letter to sir Thomas Hardy off New - London , states her to mount but 49 guns , when we know she carried 56 ...
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... Ameri- can station . Captain Decatur declined a meeting between the Statira and Macedonian singly : evidently afraid of the same dis- appointment recurring that ensued from that of the Shannon and Chesapeake . " No sooner did the ...
... Ameri- can station . Captain Decatur declined a meeting between the Statira and Macedonian singly : evidently afraid of the same dis- appointment recurring that ensued from that of the Shannon and Chesapeake . " No sooner did the ...
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207. oldal - I have seen them often," added he, "standing in that very attitude, and pursuing, with an intense eye, the arrow which they had just discharged from the bow.
507. oldal - Is fix'd for ever to detract or praise : Repose denies her requiem to his name. And Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. The secret enemy whose sleepless eye Stands sentinel — accuser — judge— and spy, The foe — the fool — the jealous — and the vain, The envious who but breathe in others...
499. oldal - Sir, you never heard me say that David Garrick was a great man; you may have heard me say that Garrick was a good repeater — of other men's words — words put into his mouth by other men; this makes but a faint approach towards being a great man.
506. oldal - When all of Genius which can perish dies. A mighty Spirit is eclipsed — a Power Hath pass'd from day to darkness — to whose hour Of light no likeness is bequeath'd — no name, Focus at once of all the rays of Fame ! The flash of Wit, the bright Intelligence, The beam of Song, the blaze of Eloquence...
246. oldal - Open thy bosom, set thy wishes wide, And let in Manhood; let in Happiness ; Admit the boundless theatre of thought From nothing, up to GOD ; which makes a Man.
505. oldal - Garrick himself gave in to this foppery of feelings I can easily believe ; but he knew at the same time that he lied. He might think it right as far as I know...
508. oldal - While Eloquence, Wit. Poesy, and Mirth, That humbler Harmonist of care on Earth, Survive within our souls — while lives our sense Of pride in Merit's proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain. Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man. And broke the die— in moulding Sheridan 1 CHURCHILL'S CRAVE.