Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining KnowledgeR. Gibson, 1806 |
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Page 467 - Or soothes her breast, or stops her streaming tears. Her matted locks unornamented flow ; Clasping her knees, and waving to and fro ; — Her head bow'd down, her faded cheek to hide ; — A piteous mourner by the pathway side. Some tufted molehill through the livelong day She calls her throne : there weeps her life away : And oft the gaily-passing stranger stays His well-tim'd step, and takes a silent gaze, Till sympathetic drops unbidden...
Page 372 - ... aggression upon the property of the citizens of these United States, a violation of their neutral rights, and an encroachment upon their national independence.
Page 246 - July, 1815, and to amend several acts for granting certain rates and duties, and for allowing certain drawbacks and bounties on goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into and exported from Ireland, and to grant...
Page 112 - State an article for the ransom of our citizens has been agreed to. An operation by land by a small band of our countrymen and...
Page 246 - An act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the...
Page 114 - A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be communicated so soon as we shall receive some further relations which we have reason shortly to expect. The receipts at the Treasury during the year ending...
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Page 113 - Piankeshaws, it completes our possession of the whole of both banks of the Ohio, from its source to near its mouth, and the navigation of that river is thereby rendered forever safe to our citizens settled and settling on its extensive waters.
Page 247 - The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Right Hon.