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Page 391
... force in 1790 consisted of 150 infantry of the line , 150 artillery , 2000 regular militia , clothed , armed , and exercised , and 10,000 irregular militia . The island is divided into two captaineries , named Machico and Fun- chal ...
... force in 1790 consisted of 150 infantry of the line , 150 artillery , 2000 regular militia , clothed , armed , and exercised , and 10,000 irregular militia . The island is divided into two captaineries , named Machico and Fun- chal ...
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... force , and pay a large annual tribute . The rest of the country is under the immediate jurisdic- tion of the governor and council at Madras ; and has been subdivided into the districts of Arcot , Bellary , Canara , Chingleput ...
... force , and pay a large annual tribute . The rest of the country is under the immediate jurisdic- tion of the governor and council at Madras ; and has been subdivided into the districts of Arcot , Bellary , Canara , Chingleput ...
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... force to act : but what could the people effect against so great a military force , prepared for such an insurrection , and eager , the leaders from political , the men from personal feelings , to strike a blow which should overawe the ...
... force to act : but what could the people effect against so great a military force , prepared for such an insurrection , and eager , the leaders from political , the men from personal feelings , to strike a blow which should overawe the ...
Page 403
... force in the motion of her eyes . What charm , what magick , can over - rule the force Rogers . of all these motives ? Tatler . Like castles built by magick art in air , That vanish at approach , such thoughts appear . Granville . Every ...
... force in the motion of her eyes . What charm , what magick , can over - rule the force Rogers . of all these motives ? Tatler . Like castles built by magick art in air , That vanish at approach , such thoughts appear . Granville . Every ...
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... forces of Antiochus amounted to 70,000 men according to Appian , or 70,000 foot and 12,000 horse according to Livy , which has been exaggerated by Florus to 300,000 men ; the Roman army consisted of about 28,000 or 30,000 men , 2000 of ...
... forces of Antiochus amounted to 70,000 men according to Appian , or 70,000 foot and 12,000 horse according to Livy , which has been exaggerated by Florus to 300,000 men ; the Roman army consisted of about 28,000 or 30,000 men , 2000 of ...
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Page 486 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 416 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 540 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Page 657 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 491 - The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return. What ardently I wished I long believed, And, disappointed still, was still deceived.
Page 385 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 636 - It is only the effect, which that figure produces upon a mind, whose particular fabric or structure renders it susceptible of such sentiments. In vain would you look for it in the circle, or seek it, either by your senses, or by- mathematical reasonings, in all the properties of that figure.
Page 544 - For the canon law, which the common law follows in this case, deems so highly and with such mysterious reverence of the nuptial tie, that it will not allow it to be unloosed for any cause whatsoever, that arises after the union is made.
Page 435 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 542 - Now these disabilities are of two sorts: first, such as are canonical, and therefore sufficient by the ecclesiastical laws to avoid the marriage in the spiritual court; but these in our law only make the marriage voidable, and not ipso facto void, until sentence of nullity be obtained.