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... prisoners , while the British had but 12 killed and 42 wounded , Nov. 3 , 1840. See Syria and Turkey . ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS . The citadel of Athens was built on a rock , and accessible only on one side : Minerva had a temple at the ...
... prisoners , while the British had but 12 killed and 42 wounded , Nov. 3 , 1840. See Syria and Turkey . ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS . The citadel of Athens was built on a rock , and accessible only on one side : Minerva had a temple at the ...
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... prisoners , the English losing only 100 men . Among the prisoners were the dukes of Orleans and Bourbon , and 7000 barons , knights , and gentlemen , and men more numerous than the British themselves . Among the slain were the dukes of ...
... prisoners , the English losing only 100 men . Among the prisoners were the dukes of Orleans and Bourbon , and 7000 barons , knights , and gentlemen , and men more numerous than the British themselves . Among the slain were the dukes of ...
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... prisoners of war , having been abandoned by the Portuguese at the first charge , April 14 , 1707 . ALMEIDA , BATTLE OF , between the British and Anglo - Spanish army , commanded by lord Wellington , and the French army under Massena ...
... prisoners of war , having been abandoned by the Portuguese at the first charge , April 14 , 1707 . ALMEIDA , BATTLE OF , between the British and Anglo - Spanish army , commanded by lord Wellington , and the French army under Massena ...
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... prisoners ; and great quantities of stores which were found in the fort , and several ships in the harbour , which he had taken from the East India Company , were seized , 1756 . ANHALT , HOUSE OF , in Germany , is very ancient and ...
... prisoners ; and great quantities of stores which were found in the fort , and several ships in the harbour , which he had taken from the East India Company , were seized , 1756 . ANHALT , HOUSE OF , in Germany , is very ancient and ...
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... prisoners , and 600 emigrants shut up in Longwy ; 900 French were killed in the action ; thirty pieces of battering - cannon and howitzers , with all the baggage of the combined army , were captured , August 13 , 1792 . ANTWERP . First ...
... prisoners , and 600 emigrants shut up in Longwy ; 900 French were killed in the action ; thirty pieces of battering - cannon and howitzers , with all the baggage of the combined army , were captured , August 13 , 1792 . ANTWERP . First ...
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Page 69 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 199 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
Page 26 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 299 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head.
Page 14 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'.
Page 475 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Page 155 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Page 459 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 556 - If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the housetops I would go.
Page 373 - ... thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.