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Page 120
... Ensign vice Gordon , 6 F. 20 Dec , Lieut . Bowlby , Capt . vice Fletcher , dead Ensign Shea , Lieut . 25 Oct. 18. Nov. do . do . A. T. Faunce , Ensign 16 Dec. 5 Ensign Copson , Lieut . by purch . vice Hatton , ret . H. B. Baring , Ensign ...
... Ensign vice Gordon , 6 F. 20 Dec , Lieut . Bowlby , Capt . vice Fletcher , dead Ensign Shea , Lieut . 25 Oct. 18. Nov. do . do . A. T. Faunce , Ensign 16 Dec. 5 Ensign Copson , Lieut . by purch . vice Hatton , ret . H. B. Baring , Ensign ...
Page 121
... Ensign Gleeson , Lieut . vice Skelton , dead F. Ingram , Ensign 11 Nov. 23 April 25 Nov. 47 Bt . Lieut . Col. Donoghue , Warren , dead Maj . vice 19 March Lieut . Clarke , Capt . do . Ensign Snow , Lieut . do . H. H. F. Clarke , Ensign ...
... Ensign Gleeson , Lieut . vice Skelton , dead F. Ingram , Ensign 11 Nov. 23 April 25 Nov. 47 Bt . Lieut . Col. Donoghue , Warren , dead Maj . vice 19 March Lieut . Clarke , Capt . do . Ensign Snow , Lieut . do . H. H. F. Clarke , Ensign ...
Page 122
... Ensign Keily , from 16 F. with Ensign Johnston , 69 F. Wolff , from 60 F. with Ensign Wilford , h . p . 11 F. Quart . Mast . Campbell , from 73 F. with Ensign Hickson , h . p . 12 F. Surg . Callow , from 31 F. with Surg . White , 84 F ...
... Ensign Keily , from 16 F. with Ensign Johnston , 69 F. Wolff , from 60 F. with Ensign Wilford , h . p . 11 F. Quart . Mast . Campbell , from 73 F. with Ensign Hickson , h . p . 12 F. Surg . Callow , from 31 F. with Surg . White , 84 F ...
Page 127
... Ensign , royal African colonial corps . Oct. 2. At Alvarado , Peter Martin , Esq . 7. At Aux Cayes , Hayti , John Aitkin , Esq . mer- chant . 24. At King's House , Barbadoes , of inflamma- tion of the lungs , after ten days of severe ...
... Ensign , royal African colonial corps . Oct. 2. At Alvarado , Peter Martin , Esq . 7. At Aux Cayes , Hayti , John Aitkin , Esq . mer- chant . 24. At King's House , Barbadoes , of inflamma- tion of the lungs , after ten days of severe ...
Page 249
... Ensign 27 do . Bt . Maj . Simcockes , Maj . vice Emes , dead 30 Dec. 1824 . Lieut . Belton , Capt . do . do . do . Ensign Wood , Lieut . A. L'Estrange , Ensign Lieut . Walsh , from 1 Vet . Bn . Lieut . vice Wyatt , h . p . 3 W. I. R. 6 ...
... Ensign 27 do . Bt . Maj . Simcockes , Maj . vice Emes , dead 30 Dec. 1824 . Lieut . Belton , Capt . do . do . do . Ensign Wood , Lieut . A. L'Estrange , Ensign Lieut . Walsh , from 1 Vet . Bn . Lieut . vice Wyatt , h . p . 3 W. I. R. 6 ...
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Page 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Page 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Page 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Page 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Page 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
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