The Anglo-American Magazine, Volume 5Maclear., 1854 - Food |
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... CONTINUED . American Accounts of the descent on Oswego . It will be seen by this extract , that the ships were not within reach of the American It will be as well , before giving Sir James omit to mention the cause which compelled guns ...
... CONTINUED . American Accounts of the descent on Oswego . It will be seen by this extract , that the ships were not within reach of the American It will be as well , before giving Sir James omit to mention the cause which compelled guns ...
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... continued , with our maintopsail to the mast , three hours , and , seeing no probability of the seventy- four gun ship's bearing down to engage , the President gave her a shot to windward , and the end of 1812 , on a cruise to the ...
... continued , with our maintopsail to the mast , three hours , and , seeing no probability of the seventy- four gun ship's bearing down to engage , the President gave her a shot to windward , and the end of 1812 , on a cruise to the ...
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... continued to flit athwart that distracted visage , as long as life's In these circumstances , which were patent to all flickering taper remained burning . Anguish , rage , who were acquainted with the pair , it was naturally remorse ...
... continued to flit athwart that distracted visage , as long as life's In these circumstances , which were patent to all flickering taper remained burning . Anguish , rage , who were acquainted with the pair , it was naturally remorse ...
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... continued in it by four suc- portant diplomatic appointments , and , while Am - cessive Colonial Ministers , and that these four were bassador Extraordinary in Turkey , formed the all at a festival in his honour , viz . , Mr. Gladstone ...
... continued in it by four suc- portant diplomatic appointments , and , while Am - cessive Colonial Ministers , and that these four were bassador Extraordinary in Turkey , formed the all at a festival in his honour , viz . , Mr. Gladstone ...
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... continued . She received. Ecclesiastical law calls condonation . of even the small amount of protection afforded by the law to English wives of the nineteenth century . They had now three children who made up the sole summer time of her ...
... continued . She received. Ecclesiastical law calls condonation . of even the small amount of protection afforded by the law to English wives of the nineteenth century . They had now three children who made up the sole summer time of her ...
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Page 303 - David's wives and concubines were given unto him, of me, by the hand of Nathan, my servant, and others of the prophets who had the keys of this power; and in none of these things did he sin against me, save in the case of Uriah and his wife...
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Page 108 - Phoebe, where we were again exposed to a dreadful raking fire. My ship was now totally unmanageable ; yet, as her head was toward the enemy, and he to leeward of me, I still hoped to be able to board him.
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Page 212 - ... when most unfortunately some ammunition, which had been placed under the platform, caught fire from the firing of the guns to the rear, and a most tremendous explosion followed, by which almost all the troops which had entered the place were dreadfully mangled. Panic was instantly communicated to the troops (who could not be persuaded that the explosion was accidental), and the enemy, at the same time pressing forward, and commencing a heavy fire of musketry, the...
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Page 211 - General's department, who, actually with a few men, had turned the enemy's battery. '• The column of support, consisting of the remainder of De Watteville's and the King's regiment, forming the reserve, in marching too near the Lake, found themselves entangled between the rocks and the water, and by the retreat of the flank companies, were thrown into such confusion, as to render it impossible to give them any kind of formation during the darkness of the night, at which time they were exposed to...
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