Oriental Herald and Colonial Review, Volume 12James Silk Buckingham J. M. Richardson, 1827 |
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Pagina 13
... Captain Henry Somerset . The colonial finances and the service of the farmers could as yet admit of nothing farther . It had become absolutely necessary , however , to adopt some mea- sures for the defence of the colony . A general ...
... Captain Henry Somerset . The colonial finances and the service of the farmers could as yet admit of nothing farther . It had become absolutely necessary , however , to adopt some mea- sures for the defence of the colony . A general ...
Pagina 14
... captain thus out of the way , the two young Somer- sets now found themselves the only captains in the Cape Corps . By a most fortunate coincidence ( fortunate at least for these two cap- tains ) his Excellency the Governor , as soon as ...
... captain thus out of the way , the two young Somer- sets now found themselves the only captains in the Cape Corps . By a most fortunate coincidence ( fortunate at least for these two cap- tains ) his Excellency the Governor , as soon as ...
Pagina 15
... Captain Henry Somerset's troop , a second troop of Hottentot cavalry was essential for the protection of the colony . This second troop naturally fell to the lot of the second captain , Charles Somerset , ( who had got Harding's company ...
... Captain Henry Somerset's troop , a second troop of Hottentot cavalry was essential for the protection of the colony . This second troop naturally fell to the lot of the second captain , Charles Somerset , ( who had got Harding's company ...
Pagina 16
... Captain Somerset - but in vain . Fraser resolutely resisted all such proposals to the infinite chagrin of the aspiring captain and his anxious sire . * Nevertheless , Lord Charles Somerset's plans to push forward his sons were not on ...
... Captain Somerset - but in vain . Fraser resolutely resisted all such proposals to the infinite chagrin of the aspiring captain and his anxious sire . * Nevertheless , Lord Charles Somerset's plans to push forward his sons were not on ...
Pagina 17
... Captain Grant , and in the Abeona transport . The officers of the Royal African corps , and other gentlemen of ability and enterprise , were at the same time invited to form a set- · tlement on the Beka river , near the coast . This ...
... Captain Grant , and in the Abeona transport . The officers of the Royal African corps , and other gentlemen of ability and enterprise , were at the same time invited to form a set- · tlement on the Beka river , near the coast . This ...
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Pagina 59 - ... for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted...
Pagina 495 - Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.
Pagina 495 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Pagina 292 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.
Pagina 495 - Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Pagina 494 - The rats gnawed his feet and clothes while asleep, which obliged him to cherish the cats with his goats' flesh ; by which many of them became so tame, that they would lie about him in hundreds, and soon delivered him from the rats. He likewise tamed some kids, and to divert himself would now and then sing and dance with them and his cats: so that by the...
Pagina 292 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age.
Pagina 292 - And Abraham answered and said, Lord, he would not worship thee, neither would he call upon thy name, therefore have I driven him out from before my face, into the wilderness.
Pagina 291 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth?
Pagina 265 - Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan : A region of emptiness, howling and drear, Which Man hath abandoned from famine and fear ; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the...