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Page 164 - Having, however, fifteen miles to go, and the night being very dark, we could not reach Bristol till after nine, when, I lament to say, we found the city on fire in many places, the gaols emptied, and the town in the greatest confusion. Having paraded through the principal parts of the city for more than two hours without being able to find a magistrate — hearing that they had, in fact, left the town, after withdrawing both his majesty's troops and the police — finding ourselves thus unsupported,...
Page 127 - November sermon at Bristol, and to dine at the 5th of November dinner with the Mayor and Corporation of Bristol. All sorts of bad theology are preached at the Cathedral on that day, and all sorts of bad toasts drunk at the Mansion House. I will do neither the one nor the other, nor bow the knee in the house of Rimmon.
Page 170 - Numbers were cut down and ridden over ; some were driven into the burning houses, out of which they were never seen to return ; and our Dragoons, after sabring all they could come at in the Square, collected and formed, and then charged down Princes-street and again returned to the Square, riding at the miserable mob in all directions; about 120 or 130 of the incendiaries were killed and wounded here.
Page 443 - There's a spirit above and a spirit below, A spirit of joy and a spirit of woe ; The spirit above is the spirit divine, The spirit below is the spirit of wine.
Page 92 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 229 - As to the project, however, which was announced in the.- newspapers of making the voyage directly from New York to Liverpool, it was, he had no hesitation in saying, perfectly chimerical, and they might as well talk of making a voyage from New York or Liverpool to the moon.
Page 128 - ... judged necessary to give it a legal establishment, it becomes necessary to deprive the body of the people, if they adhere to their old opinions, of their liberties, and of all their free customs, and to reduce them to a state of civil servitude?
Page 191 - The time has long passed away since there was any difference of opinion as to the deplorable error of the original board in neglecting the sober-minded, practical, and economical engineers of the North, already deservedly famous, and in preferring to them an inexperienced theorist, enamoured of novelty, prone to seek for difficulties rather than to evade them, and utterly indifferent as to the outlay which his recklessness entailed upon his...
Page 167 - The flame increased — multiplied — at one point after another; till, by ten o'clock that night, one seemed to be looking down upon Dante's Inferno, and to hear the multitudinous moan and wail of the lost spirits surging to and fro amid that sea of fire.
Page 170 - Magistrates' orders. I called out " Colonel Brereton, we must instantly charge;" and without waiting for his answer, (he could not but approve,) I called out " Charge, men, and charge home...