The Annual Biography and Obituary, المجلد 7Longman., 1823 |
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الصفحة 121 - Signed, sealed, published, and declared, by the said Thomas Coutts, the testator, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, in his presence, at his request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses, WLLIAM LOXAM FARRER.
الصفحة 254 - Regiment of Foot, In different parts of Europe, And in the year 1745, fought under the command Of the Duke of Cumberland, At the Battle of Fontenoy, Where she received a Bayonet Wound in her arm. Her long life, which commenced in the...
الصفحة 214 - What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind that might be bestowed upon the country, in the event of a total change of system ! Of all monarchs, indeed, since the Revolution, the successor of George the Third will have the finest opportunity of becoming nobly popular.
الصفحة 118 - Signed sealed published and declared by the said Anthony Todd the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses.
الصفحة 257 - Kipling, supposed to be the doctor himself. — " Certain Accusations brought lately by the Irish Papists, against British and Irish Protestants, examined,
الصفحة 132 - But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age: Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour?
الصفحة 87 - At the latter period, (having attained the rank of vice-admiral in 1799,) he was appointed third in command of the channel fleet, and hoisted his flag on board the Neptune of 98 guns. In the spring of 1802, he proceeded to Newfoundland as governor of that island, and Commander-in-chief of the squadron employed for its protection.
الصفحة 101 - ... internal ornament and accommodation, intended to resist the ravages of time, without an idea of the revolutions of fashion. One apartment, seldom omitted in houses of this rank and date, but never found in those of higher antiquity, was a long gallery for music and dancing, sometimes 150 feet long ; a proof that the hall was now beginning to be deserted. At all events the practice of dining in these great apartments at different tables according to the rank of the guests, was scarcely continued...
الصفحة 53 - The Jurisdiction of the Lords' House of Parliament considered, by Lord Chief Justice Hale ; with a Preface, including a Narrative of the same Jurisdiction, from the Accession of James I.
الصفحة 49 - No man is by nature the property of another — The defendant is therefore by nature free — The rights of nature must be some way forfeited before they can be justly taken away — That the defendant has by any act forfeited the rights of nature we require to be proved ; and if no proof of such forfeiture can be given, we doubt not the justice of the court will declare him free.