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Side 135 - ... cheers by waving his hat. The sentinels, who endeavoured to prevent them from trespassing upon this ground, were wedged among the crowd ; and an officer, who, not very prudently upon such an occasion, ordered them to drive the people down with their bayonets, was compelled speedily to retreat, for the people would not be debarred from gazing till the last moment upon the hero — the darling hero of England.
Side 6 - Still. Settled in some secret NeSt In calm Leisure let me rest ; And far of the publick Stage Pass away my silent Age.
Side 221 - The powers consequently declare, that Napoleon Bonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations, and that as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.
Side 331 - In the late short, but memorable campaign, they have given proofs to the world that they possess, in an eminent degree, all the good qualities of soldiers ; and the Field...
Side 250 - He had, as usual, taken off all his clothes, but had not washed himself ; and as I entered the room he sat up in his bed, his face covered with the dust and sweat of the previous day, and extended his hand to me, which I took and held in mine, whilst I told him of Gordon's death, and related such of the casualties as had come to my knowledge.
Side 27 - Near this place lies interred THOMAS JOHNSON, who departed this life at Charlton, Dec. 20, 1744. " From his early inclination to fox-hounds he soon became an experienced huntsman. His knowledge in his profession, wherein he had no superior, and hardly an equal, joined to his honesty in every other particular, recommended him to the service, and gained him the approbation of several of the nobility and gentry ; among these were the Lord Conway, Earl of Cardigan, the Lord Gower, the Duke of Marlborough,...
Side 25 - Farquhar's humanity claims your regard, who kindly sympathised with my lord in his misfortunes, and had not power to go beyond him. At the bottom of Cocking Warren the hounds turned to the left, across the road, by the barn, near...
Side 24 - Ives, whippers-in. At a quarter before eight in the morning, the fox was found in East Dean Wood, and run an hour in that cover ; then into the...
Side 25 - Faugwill's humanity claims your regard, who kindly sympathised with my lord in his misfortunes, and had not power to go beyond him at the bottom of Cocking Warren. The hounds turned to the left...
Side 250 - I felt his tears dropping fast upon my hands, and looking towards him, saw them chasing one another in furrows over his dusty cheeks. He brushed them suddenly away with his left hand, and said to me, in a voice tremulous with emotion, ' Well ! thank God ! I don't know what it is to lose a battle, but certainly nothing can be more painful than to gain one with the loss of so many of one's friends.