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And we humbly hope we shall at last experience all Thy goodness to us consummate in that future state, which Thou hast prepared for them that love and fear Thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. From the MS. Collections of the Rev. W. Cole, now in the Library at the British Museum. Vol. 10, p. 92, taken at Bristol in the year 1746.
The repulse was followed a little later by a vigorous attack of the French troops under Paradis, which smashed the armament of the Nabob to pieces at St. Thome on November 4, 1746. This victory gave the French a prestige of which Dupleix was the very man to appreciate the full importance.
The Dobbs Galley, Captain Moon, and the California, Captain Smith, with the Shark, under Middleton, as convoy for part of the way, went out in 1746 with Henry Ellis, agent for Dobbs, aboard. The result of the voyage need not be told. There was the usual struggle with the ice jam in the north off Chesterfield Inlet, the usual suffering from scurvy.
Ulloa, who resided in the same country between 1740 and 1746, represents it as containing more than fifty thousand. The difference in their accounts of the populousness of several other principal towns of Chili and Peru is nearly the same; and as there seems to be no reason to doubt of the good information of either, it marks an increase which is scarce inferior to that of the English colonies.
Before the Royal Society, in 1746, Glass of Oxford read the report of a case of preternatural size of the abdomen, and stated that the dropsy was due to the absence of one kidney. The circumference of the abdomen was six feet four inches, and the distance from the xiphoid to the os pubis measured four feet 1/2 inch.
'Ah! said the attorney, scribbling fast, and with distended cheeks. 'I leave the said fund to go with the land. 'To go with the land, the lawyer repeated as he wrote the words. 'Fifty thousand pounds! Prodigious! Prodigious! Might I ask, sir, the date of your respected grandfather's will? 'December, 1746, Sir George answered. 'The term has then nine months to run? 'Yes.
In the middle of the century public interest was again awakened by the exertions of Mr Dobbs, who was strongly impressed with the belief that a north-west passage could be found. Captain Middleton was sent out by Government in 1741, and Captains Smith and Moore in 1746. In 1773, at the instigation of the Hon.
The change was made before 1746, when the Cocoa-Tree was the rendezvous of the Jacobites. One of the most curious features of the present premises is a carved palm-tree which is thrust up through the centre of the front rooms on the first and second floors.
These are in the Burney Collection, and are inscribed "These papers are by the celebrated Henry Fielding Esqre." See the Gentleman's Magazine. Dec. 1747. A Free Comment on the Late Mr. W-G-N's Apology ... By a Lady ... 1748. The Patriot Analized. 1748. True Patriot No. 14. True Patriot. No. 29. May 20, 1746. R. Cobbett. Memorials of Twickenham, 1872.
These, Edwards reminds his reader, he had severely condemned in his earlier publications, notably in his "Treatise on Religious Affections," 1746, and in his "Observations and Reflections on Mr. Brainerd's Life."
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