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Orders of Admiral Villeneuve to the captains of his fleet, Dec. 20, 1804. Letter of Villeneuve, January, 1805. Letters and Despatches of Lord Nelson. Life and Letters of Lord Collingwood. Burrows: Life of Lord Hawke. Of this Rodney said: "The evacuating Rhode Island was the most fatal measure that could possibly be adopted.
Every expectation, every hope that I had formed for this journey has been more than gratified, far surpassed by the reality; and we return with thorough satisfaction to our own country, looking to our dear home for permanent happiness, without a wish unsatisfied or a regret for anything we have left behind, except our friends. To MISS RUXTON. MALI, CLIFTON, Dec. 17, 1820.
The letter was ready Sept. 17, when it was ordered to be sent down into the counties, with a copy of the Votes and Ordinances on the subject of the election of Elders that had then passed and been concurred in by the Lords. Commons Journals. Sept.-Dec. 1645: Special Presbyterian Arrangements for London. Thus there were to be 108 Triers in all in London. Their names are all registered.
Sci. vi. 3. 12, he says: 'Non invenias inter humanos affetum tam pusillum, qui si intendatur paullo vehementius, non mortis metum superet. See post, under Dec. 2, 1784. History may be formed from permanent monuments and records; but Lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost for ever.
The minister's wife told me there was a good wagon-load. He drove it to the house, and found that his gifts were most thankfully received. This account was received from the minister himself, David P. , who died in Chelsea, Mass., in Dec. 1875, and subsequently from his wife, and communicated to a correspondent of 'The Christian."
The Estates were summoned to Orleans, and the occasion was to be seized for extirpating heresy throughout the kingdom. Conde was under arrest, and charged with high treason. Just then, on Dec. 5, 1560, the young king died. CHARLES IX.: EDICT OF ST. GERMAIN. The coveted opportunity of the queen-mother had come. She assumed the practical guardianship over him, and with it a virtual regency.
News from the best authority; probably it will be in the newspapers before you see this: Lord Wellesley is to be lord-lieutenant, and Mr. Goulburn, secretary. To MISS HONORA EDGEWORTH. WINCHESTER, Dec. 12, 1821. Lest you should be staying in Dublin, I write this epitome to tell you what we have done. We spent two days at Cirencester, very entertaining. Delightful woods. Friday to Dr.
On Nov. 22 he wrote to Dr. Taylor:-'I feel the weight of solitude very pressing; after a night of broken and uncomfortable slumber I rise to a solitary breakfast, and sit down in the evening with no companion. On Dec. 27 he wrote to Mrs. Thrale: 'You have more than once wondered at my complaint of solitude, when you hear that I am crowded with visits. Inopem me copia fecit.
Boabdil, however, was not to be persuaded: to the urgent suggestions of these perfidious counsellors he replied that he had given up a kingdom to live in peace, and had no idea of going to a foreign land to encounter new troubles and to be under the control of alarabes.* * Letter of Hernando de Zafra to the sovereigns, Dec. 9, 1493.
Of the 44,000 who had gone into the line on the evening of Dec. 30, nearly 9,000 had been killed or wounded and about 2,000 were prisoners. The whole right wing of the army had been driven back several miles, to the Nashville Pike.
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