 | Sir John Barrow - 1839 - 536 pàgines
...ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, JELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, IN THE YEAR 1757, AT A TIME WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER. CHAPTER VII. EXPEDITIONS TO THE COAST OF FRANCE. Resignation of the ministers—The King for two or... | |
 | England - 1840 - 232 pàgines
...Honourable John Byng, vice-admiral of the blue, fell a martyr to political persecution on March 14th, 1757, when bravery and loyalty were insufficient securities for the life and honour of a naval officer." Here are a Baptist church, formed in 1693 ; a Roman Catholic chapel ; and 2 day and Sunday schools.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pàgines
...1778.' f General Burgoyne surrendered on the 17th of October, 1777. ' Nothing,' says Mr. Croker, ' can be more unfounded than the assertion that Byng fell a martyr to political party. — By a strange coincidence of circumstances, it happened that there was a total change of administration... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pàgines
...OF PUBLIC JUSTICE, THB HONOURABLE JOHN BYNG FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, 1707 J WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER. BYRON'S VOYAGE. Commodore Byron left England on his voyage round the globe, June 21, 176'4, and returned... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 pàgines
...Honourable John Byng, vice-admiral of the blue, fell a martyr to political persecution on March 14th, 1757, when bravery and loyalty were insufficient securities for the life and honour of a naval officer.' " " Well, now, that was very hard. Poor Byng ! What he must have felt as a brave man, on being shot... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pàgines
...BYJTG, HO,. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, IN THE YEAR 1767 ; WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES...critical essay in the Literary Magazine, and indeed anv where, is his review of Soame Jt-nyns's " Inquiry into the Origin of Evil." Je'nyas was possessed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pàgines
...March, 1778."$ General Burgoyne surrendered on the 17th of October, 1777. " Nothing," says Mr. Croker, " clared his concurrence with the majority. Long afterwards, he said that he had never By a stransre coincidence of circumstances, it happened that there was a total change of administration... | |
 | John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 pàgines
...Torrington, and was grand-nephew of the ill-fated Admiral Byng. who was executed in 1757, at a period when " bravery and loyalty were insufficient securities for the life and honour of a naval officer." Mr. Byng's first election for Middlesex took place in 179H, and his parliamentary services extended... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pàgines
...II. struck out of the army lists, and that the narrators of Hie anecdote mistook the date — CHOKER. he year 1715, when there was a line in a song : "...M'Craas are coming." ' There was great diversity in Jenyns was possessed of lively talents, and a style eminently pure and easy, and could very happily... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pàgines
...BYNG, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICALPERSECUTION, MARCH 14. IN THE YEAH 1757; WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A SAVAL OFFICER." Johnson's most exquisite critical essay in the Literary Magazine, and indeed any where,... | |
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ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, IN THE YEAR, 1757 ; WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER. 
