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Or, again, think of our complicated factory legislation and the terrible evils which still abound in our factories. Find a sufficiently high-placed official who is responsible for them, and practise the Byng method with him.
The naval affairs of Holland offered nothing very remarkable. The states had always a fleet ready to support the English in their enterprises; but no eminent admiral arose to rival the renown of Rooke, Byng, Benbow, and others of their allies. The first of those admirals took Gibraltar, which has ever since remained in the possession of England.
"Where is the Luxembourg?" inquired Hastings after a silence. "Come with me to the gate," said Miss Byng. He rose and followed her, and she pointed out the rue Vavin at the foot of the street. "You pass by the convent to the right," she smiled; and Hastings went. The Luxembourg was a blaze of flowers.
Byng paused for an instant and looked at him with burning, glazed eyes that scarcely realized him. "Open that door," he said, presently, and Barry Whalen opened the door which led into the big hall. "Open all down to the street," Byng said, and Barry Whalen went forward quickly.
And it will be your best way, for there's sure news come frae Loudoun, that him they ca' Bang, or Byng, or what is't, has bang'd the French ships and the new king aff the coast however; sae ye had best bide content wi' auld Nanse for want of a better Queen." Ratcliffe, who at this moment entered, confirmed these accounts so unfavourable to the Jacobite interest.
He also told him the anecdote of Lenny's own gallant countryman, Admiral Byng, whose execution gave rise to Voltaire's celebrated witticism, "En Angleterre on tue un admiral pour encourager les autres." Many other illustrations, still more pertinent to the case in point, his erudition supplied from the stores of history.
We already saw Byng sea fighting in the Straits of Messina; that was part of Crisis Second, sequel, in powder-and-ball, of Crisis First, which had been in paper till then. Byng's Sea-fight was when Termagant said, "No, by the Plots of Alberoni! Never will I, for my part, accede to such terms!" and attacked the poor Kaiser in his Sicilies and elsewhere.
When I arrived at the fort I was horrified to find gathered there a large company of other English prisoners, to the number of about a hundred and fifty. Among them were both the Honourable Robert Byng and Mr. Holwell, who received me with surprise, having been assured by those men who had fought under me that they had seen me slain. Immediately after my joining them Mr.
It is most interesting to note that the unfortunate Byng was one of the signers of this opinion, as he was also one of the judges that sentenced Mathews to be dismissed from the navy, as responsible for the general failure. During the night of the 21st the allies, who had stopped after dark, appear again to have made sail.
The shock of the explosion had been heard at Glencader, but nothing was thought of it, as there had been much blasting in the district for days. "There's twenty men below," said the grimy manager who had brought the news to Byng.
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