The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, Том 58Alex Chapman and, 1796 |
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... MAGAZINE , affuring our Subfcribers and the Public , that the 59th volume , which we are about to commence , will not fall fhort of any that have gone before . EDINBURGH , Dec. 1796 . } January . 20. Batavia taken from the Dutch .-- 22.
... MAGAZINE , affuring our Subfcribers and the Public , that the 59th volume , which we are about to commence , will not fall fhort of any that have gone before . EDINBURGH , Dec. 1796 . } January . 20. Batavia taken from the Dutch .-- 22.
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... taken by a French privateer , and the cap- tain and feveral of her crew treacherously killed by the enemy . Mr Stone tried in the Court of King's Bench for high treafon --- Ver- dict , Not Guilty .--- 29 . The greater part of Admiral ...
... taken by a French privateer , and the cap- tain and feveral of her crew treacherously killed by the enemy . Mr Stone tried in the Court of King's Bench for high treafon --- Ver- dict , Not Guilty .--- 29 . The greater part of Admiral ...
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... taken by the French , and the Auf- trians defeated with confiderable flaughter . 6. Bounaparte defeated the Auftrians at Ca. vela , took a great number of cannon , & c . and made four thousand prifoners .--- 8 . Ge- neral Wurmfer made a ...
... taken by the French , and the Auf- trians defeated with confiderable flaughter . 6. Bounaparte defeated the Auftrians at Ca. vela , took a great number of cannon , & c . and made four thousand prifoners .--- 8 . Ge- neral Wurmfer made a ...
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... taken to state the power of the verb itself . " Pofcere , " fays he , " eft quoties aliquid pro merito noftro de- pofcimus . " Had the critic taken the trouble , previously , to define " depof- cere , " we fhould have been at no lofs to ...
... taken to state the power of the verb itself . " Pofcere , " fays he , " eft quoties aliquid pro merito noftro de- pofcimus . " Had the critic taken the trouble , previously , to define " depof- cere , " we fhould have been at no lofs to ...
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... taken . The governor with the chief of his force , retired to fort Oftenburg , which stands on a hill commanding the harbour ; but the place was taken by ftorm fix days after . The harbour , in which the most numerous fleets may anchor ...
... taken . The governor with the chief of his force , retired to fort Oftenburg , which stands on a hill commanding the harbour ; but the place was taken by ftorm fix days after . The harbour , in which the most numerous fleets may anchor ...
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