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Brown, upon whom the command now devolved, ordered us with very unwarrantable and harsh language to get the ship ready for sea. "'Sir, said the gunner, 'to-day is Sunday, and the men are not yet over the loss of the captain. "But this only brought forth a very violent explosion from Mr.
I was shocked to discover to-day that I had omitted replying to a proposal from the "Society of Friends to Music in the Austrian States" to write an Oratorio for them. The death of my brother two months ago, which, owing to the guardianship of my nephew having devolved on me, has involved me in all sorts of annoyances and perplexities, has caused this delay in my answer.
But Fort Griswold, on the Groton side, was in a more finished state and the small garrison made a desperate defense. The British entered the fort at the point of the bayonet. Col. William Ledyard, brother of the celebrated traveler, commanded the fort. Colonel Eyre and Major Montgomery having fallen in the assault, the command had devolved on Major Bromfield, a New Jersey Tory.
Soon after sunset the general and staff left the shore, and their example was followed by every military officer of any rank; so that the whole work devolved upon those I had placed in command of the beach and the boats. The men marched down quietly by themselves and everything went on like clockwork.
By the provisions of the fundamental law the powers and duties of the high station to which he was elected have devolved upon me, and in the dispositions of the representatives of the States and of the people will be found, to a great extent, a solution of the problem to which our institutions are for the first time subjected.
After performing certain ceremonies, by which it devolved upon him to open the festivities of the day, he proceeded to his place, with his friends and favorites about him, and Chærea, with the other officers that day on guard, at a little distance behind him. The performances were commenced, and every thing went on as usual until toward noon.
The bishop henceforward was the abbot of the house, though the superintendence of the domestic concerns of the monastery devolved upon the prior. Until 1198 the bishops appointed the priors, but afterwards they were elected by the monks.
Moreover, he made his brother Joseph prince elector, and his brother Louis connétable. On the same day it devolved upon Louis, in his new dignity, to present the generals and staff officers to the emperor, and then to conduct them to the empress the Empress Josephine. The prophecy of the negress of Martinique was now fulfilled. Josephine was "more than a queen."
The only just criticism to which the regiment is open is that, having just come off blockhouse duty, they were much out of condition, which caused the men to straggle and the movements to be unduly slow. It was fortunate that the command of the column devolved upon so experienced and cool-headed a soldier as Wools-Sampson.
'Are so liable to be influenced by many considerations, which, almost without our knowing it, are unfair, that it is necessary to keep a guard upon them. For instance, Mr 'Gowan, quietly said Doyce, upon whom the utterance of the name almost always devolved. 'Is young and handsome, easy and quick, has talent, and has seen a good deal of various kinds of life.
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