Two Discourses Delivered October 25th. 1759. Being the Day Appointed by Authority to be Observed as a Day of Public Thanksgiving, for the Success of His Majesty's Arms, More Particularly in the Reduction of Quebec, the Capital of Canada: With an Appendix, Containing a Brief Account of Two Former Expeditions Against the City and Country, which Proved UnsuccessfulRichard Draper, in Newbury-street; Edes & Gill, in Queen-street; and Thomas & John Fleet, in Cornhill, 1759 - Canada - 67 pages |
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... lefs for a journal , of fieges , voyages , and campaigns ; fo it must not be expected , that I should be minutely circumftantial ; but only fpeak of the great things which God has done for us , in a fummary , general way ; which , it is ...
... lefs for a journal , of fieges , voyages , and campaigns ; fo it must not be expected , that I should be minutely circumftantial ; but only fpeak of the great things which God has done for us , in a fummary , general way ; which , it is ...
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... lefs certainty of , let us come to Europe ; and take a curfory view of it there . Ar the opening of the prefent feafon for the de- Atructive bufinefs of war , the French King thought proper to send a prodigious army intoGermany . This ...
... lefs certainty of , let us come to Europe ; and take a curfory view of it there . Ar the opening of the prefent feafon for the de- Atructive bufinefs of war , the French King thought proper to send a prodigious army intoGermany . This ...
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... lefs effential parts . In this critical and memorable juncture , it pleafed God to inspire Prince Ferdinand with fuch wifdom and magnanimity , and his comparatively small army of British and Hanove- rian troops , with fuch invincible ...
... lefs effential parts . In this critical and memorable juncture , it pleafed God to inspire Prince Ferdinand with fuch wifdom and magnanimity , and his comparatively small army of British and Hanove- rian troops , with fuch invincible ...
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... lefs watchful miniftry than the prefent . And to Great- Britain , this acquifition alone , if maintained , will pro ... lefs and lefs con- fiderable . BUT while our thoughts are in that part of the world , where fo valuable and noble an ...
... lefs watchful miniftry than the prefent . And to Great- Britain , this acquifition alone , if maintained , will pro ... lefs and lefs con- fiderable . BUT while our thoughts are in that part of the world , where fo valuable and noble an ...
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... lefs numerous army than that which the enemy had fo lately defeated at the fame place , taught them a fudden fear , and feafonably fuggefted to them , that their only fafety was in flight . This almost impregnable fortrefs is now in our ...
... lefs numerous army than that which the enemy had fo lately defeated at the fame place , taught them a fudden fear , and feafonably fuggefted to them , that their only fafety was in flight . This almost impregnable fortrefs is now in our ...
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Page 11 - Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Page 49 - AND after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
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Page 32 - The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. 5 The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
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