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Pàgina 110 - He was prohibited from preaching for the term of three years : his two sermons were ordered to be burnt by the hands of the common hangman, in presence of the lord mayor and the two sheriffs of London and Middlesex.
Pàgina 98 - Eugene observed the posture of the enemy, who were advantageously posted on a hill near Hochstadt, their right being covered by the Danube and the village of Blenheim, their left by the village of Lutzengen, and their front by a rivulet, the banks of which were steep and the bottom marshy.
Pàgina 129 - Auchterarder, where he reviewed his army, and rested on the eleventh day of November. The duke of Argyle apprised of his intention, and being joined by some regiments of dragoons from Ireland, determined to give him battle in the neighbourhood of Dumblaine.
Pàgina 137 - Annesley in possession of the lands he had lost by the decree in that kingdom. The barons obeyed this order; and the Irish house of peers passed a vote against them, as having acted in, derogation to the king's prerogative in his high court of parliament in Ireland, as...
Pàgina 115 - The loss of the British forces was soon severely felt in the allied army. Villars attacked a separate body of their troops, encamped at Denain, under the command of the earl of Albemarle. Their intrenchments were forced, and seventeen battalions either killed or taken. The earl himself, and all the surviving officers, were made prisoners. Five...
Pàgina 124 - My lords, if ministers of state, acting by the immediate commands of their sovereign, are afterwards to be made accountable for their proceedings, it may one day or other be the case of all the members of this august assembly.
Pàgina 197 - Irifh adventureV, was he who kept moft faithfully by him, and infpired him with 'Courage to fupport fuch incredible hardfhips. He was obliged to truft his life to the fidelity of above fifty individuals. One day, having walked from morning till night...
Pàgina 182 - Broglio were posted on the Danube. Prince Charles of Lorraine, at the head of the Austrian army, entered Bavaria ; and in April obtained a victory over a body of Bavarians at Braunau : at the same time, three bodies of Croatians penetrating...
Pàgina 229 - I know my own innocence, and am conscious that no part of my country's misfortunes can be owing to me.
Pàgina 13 - ... is the fole judge both of the danger, and when and how the fame is to be prevented and avoided, &c.