The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 251853 |
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... position was at its commencement . In 1809 he had landed on the crags of Portugal with an army of about 30,000 men . The English army enjoyed then no prestige of success as opposed to European forces , for our strength was thought to be ...
... position was at its commencement . In 1809 he had landed on the crags of Portugal with an army of about 30,000 men . The English army enjoyed then no prestige of success as opposed to European forces , for our strength was thought to be ...
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... position crowded round him . His long sight and diligent forethought had convinced him that his dangers were too imminent to allow of any hasty measures . Yet , conceive the advantage which this apparent hesitation gave to his ...
... position crowded round him . His long sight and diligent forethought had convinced him that his dangers were too imminent to allow of any hasty measures . Yet , conceive the advantage which this apparent hesitation gave to his ...
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... position to surmount . Napier thus instances a difficulty of this kind , not in connexion with our present scene of warfare , but happening about the same time : - ' The ships recovered from Ferrol had been transferred to Cadiz , so ...
... position to surmount . Napier thus instances a difficulty of this kind , not in connexion with our present scene of warfare , but happening about the same time : - ' The ships recovered from Ferrol had been transferred to Cadiz , so ...
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... position . To occupy fifty miles of fortification , to man one hundred and fifty forts , and to work six hundred pieces of artillery , required a number of men ; but a great fleet in the Tagus , a superb body of marines sent out from ...
... position . To occupy fifty miles of fortification , to man one hundred and fifty forts , and to work six hundred pieces of artillery , required a number of men ; but a great fleet in the Tagus , a superb body of marines sent out from ...
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... position , and the French were very strong both in numbers and general preparation . Massena , sagacious and well understanding his business , only desired that the attempt should be made . He held back his troops , appeared careless ...
... position , and the French were very strong both in numbers and general preparation . Massena , sagacious and well understanding his business , only desired that the attempt should be made . He held back his troops , appeared careless ...
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Page 321 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Page 391 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 109 - Such we are in the sight of God the Father, as is the very Son of God himself. Let it be counted folly, or frenzy, or fury, whatsoever, it is our comfort and our wisdom ; we care for no knowledge in the world but this, that man hath sinned and God hath suffered ; that God hath made himself the son of man, and that men are made the righteousness of God.
Page 356 - IT is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
Page 382 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 343 - Conybeare and Howson. — The Life and Epistles of Saint Paul : Comprising a complete Biography of the Apostle, and a Translation of his Epistles inserted in Chronological Order. By the Rev. WJ CONYBEARE, MA; and the Rev. JS HOWSON MA Second Edition, revised and corrected; with several Maps and Woodcuts, and 4 Plates.
Page 382 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense, of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green Held.
Page 324 - For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly...
Page 315 - I SAW from the beach, when the morning was shining, A bark o'er the waters move gloriously on ; I came when the sun o'er that beach was declining, The bark was still there, but the waters were gone.
Page 57 - Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.