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How the duce Corporal Trim, who knew not so much as an acute angle from an obtuse one, came to hit it so exactly; or whether it was chance or nature, or good sense or imitation, &c. shall be commented upon in that part of the cyclopaedia of arts and sciences, where the instrumental parts of the eloquence of the senate, the pulpit, and the bar, the coffee-house, the bed-chamber, and fire-side, fall under consideration.
Pepperrell's strange army, ragged and war-worn after the long siege, entered the town by the south gate. They had fought as crusaders, for to many of them Catholic Louisbourg was a stronghold of Satan. Whitfield, the great English evangelist, then in New England, had given them a motto Nil desperandum Christo duce.
Before I go further, let me get rid of my remark upon Avignon, which is this: That I think it wrong, merely because a man's hat has been blown off his head by chance the first night he comes to Avignon, that he should therefore say, 'Avignon is more subject to high winds than any town in all France: for which reason I laid no stress upon the accident till I had enquired of the master of the inn about it, who telling me seriously it was so and hearing, moreover, the windiness of Avignon spoke of in the country about as a proverb I set it down, merely to ask the learned what can be the cause the consequence I saw for they are all Dukes, Marquisses, and Counts, there the duce a Baron, in all Avignon so that there is scarce any talking to them on a windy day.
Now am I in a very fine condition, A comfortable one, as I take it: I have ventur'd my Life to some purpose now; What confounded luck was this, that he of all men Living, should happen to be my Rival? Well, I'll go visit Aminta, and see how She receives me. Why, where a duce hast thou dispos'd of Enter Labree. Thy self all this day?
Vernon commander, from which ship he was discharged and paid off at Portsmouth, in August, 1721. Having got, after this, into the gang with Dyer, Duce, Rice and others, they robbed almost always on the King's Road, between Buckingham House and Chelsea.
President, I have further to say, that I made up these opinions, and entered on this course of political conduct, Teucro duce. Yes, Sir, I pursued in all this a South Carolina track on the doctrines of internal improvement. South Carolina, as she was then represented in the other house, set forth in 1816 under a fresh and leading breeze, and I was among the followers.
But as the heart is tender, and the passions in these tides ebb and flow ten times in a minute, I instantly bring her back again; and as I do all things in extremes, I place her in the very center of the milky-way Brightest of stars! thou wilt shed thy influence upon some one The duce take her and her influence too for at that word I lose all patience much good may it do him!
President, I have further to say, that I made up these opinions, and entered on this course of political conduct, Teucro duce. Yes, Sir, I pursued in all this a South Carolina track on the doctrines of internal improvement. South Carolina, as she was then represented in the other house, set forth in 1816 under a fresh and leading breeze, and I was among the followers.
He was now near eighteen years of age and being in some fear that some persons whom he had wronged might bring him into danger, he listed himself in the king's service, and went down with a new raised regiment into Scotland, where he hoped to make something by plundering the inhabitants, it being in the time of the Rebellion . But he did not succeed very well there, and on his return fell into the company of William Duce, whom we have mentioned before.
How they got a livin' nobody knew; for they didn't seem to pay no attention to raisin' nothin' but childun, but the duce knows, there was plenty o' them. Their old hut was like a rabbit-pen: there was a tow-head to every crack and cranny. 'Member what old Cæsar said once when the word come to the store that old Hokum had got twins.
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