Biographia Navalis: Or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time; Drawn from the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement, 1 tomas

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R. Faulder, 1794

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340 psl. - ... of Buckinghamshire, a poet and wit of the seventeenth century, was born in 1649, and was the son of Edmund, earl of Mulgrave*. At nine years of age he lost his father, and his mother marrying again soon after, the care of his education was left entirely to the conduct of a tutor, who, though himself a man of learning; had not that happy manner of communicating his knowledge by which his pupil could reap any great improvement under him. In consequence of which, when he came to part from his governor,...
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390 psl. - ... having obtained a commission in a Hussar regiment; he subsequently exchanged to the Carbineers, and in 1830 was appointed Major in the 5th Dragoon Guards. He became a colonel in the army in 1851 ; at the commencement of the Russian war, in 1854, was appointed to the command of a brigade of cavalry, and in the following year he was promoted to the command of the cavalry division. General Scarlett was among the foremost at Balaklava, and was wounded before Sebastopol, and for his services in the...
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36 psl. - Whitehall, the next day, by the master of the said vessel, who, by Sir Charles Littleton's order, was sent to present his Majesty with the George found about the body of the said earl, which remained, at the time of its taking up, in every part unblemished, saving some impressions made by the fire upon his face and breast...
352 psl. - ... with that resolution, I cannot think it had any great effect upon them: and this I may affirm for a truth, not with any intention to value our own action, or to lessen the bravery of the enemy, that they were beaten by a number considerably less than theirs, the calmness and thickness of the weather giving very few of the Dutch or the blue the opportunity of engaging...
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204 psl. - Trump, in a tremendous battle, which lasted three days. The duke had scarcely returned into port before he was called to London, in consequence of the dreadful fire which laid the greatest part of the capital In ashes; and so dear was he to the people, that when he passed along, they cried out, 'If his Grace had been there the city would not have been burned.
340 psl. - SHEFFIELD (JOHN), duke of Buckinghamshire, a poet and wit of the seventeenth century, was born in 1649, and was the son of Edmund, earl of Mulgrave*. At nine years of age he lost his father, and his mother marrying again soon after, the care of his education was left entirely to the conduct of a tutor, who, though himself a man of learning; had not that happy manner of communicating his knowledge by which his pupil could reap any great improvement under him. In consequence of which, when he came...

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