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... directed the course of the ship to wards the place where he had last seen them , and about 8 A. M. he got sight of a boat which displayed the signal for being fast . Some time afterwards , he observed the other boat approach the fish ...
... directed the course of the ship to wards the place where he had last seen them , and about 8 A. M. he got sight of a boat which displayed the signal for being fast . Some time afterwards , he observed the other boat approach the fish ...
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... directed blows from the lance soon destroy life . There is a vulgar notion among the seamen , that the whale , when dying in this way , spouts as much blood as its blubber will make oil . This must be ideal , because the thickness of ...
... directed blows from the lance soon destroy life . There is a vulgar notion among the seamen , that the whale , when dying in this way , spouts as much blood as its blubber will make oil . This must be ideal , because the thickness of ...
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... directed to tear asunder ; that those who could ridicule the respective attach- ment of a mother and a son ; who would prohibit the reverence of the son to the mother who had given him life ; -who could deny to ma- ternal debility the ...
... directed to tear asunder ; that those who could ridicule the respective attach- ment of a mother and a son ; who would prohibit the reverence of the son to the mother who had given him life ; -who could deny to ma- ternal debility the ...
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... directed , -viz : that as corruption is produced by the combined agency of heat , air , or moisture , if one or all of these be excluded by artificial means , the subject will be ren- dered more lasting : -thus wood , when immersed in ...
... directed , -viz : that as corruption is produced by the combined agency of heat , air , or moisture , if one or all of these be excluded by artificial means , the subject will be ren- dered more lasting : -thus wood , when immersed in ...
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... directed the Hawke sloop of war to be built in 1793 , one half with this tim- ber , and the other with timber obtained in the usual way . It is said that the experiment did not result favourably to the tim- ber which was barked ; for ...
... directed the Hawke sloop of war to be built in 1793 , one half with this tim- ber , and the other with timber obtained in the usual way . It is said that the experiment did not result favourably to the tim- ber which was barked ; for ...
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American Andromana appears arms army artillery attack balance of trade battle beauty Bladensburgh boat body Bosala British called cause character circumstances Colonel command corps doge doge of Venice Duchess Duchess of Malfy Edinburgh Review effect enemy enemy's England English favour feelings fire fish force genius give Greenland harpoon heart honour hope human interest labour lady land less letter Lord Byron Marlborough means ment militia mind mode Monroe moral nature neral never New-York object observed opinion persons poem poet poetical poetry Pope principles produced racter Ralegh reader rear reason regiment remarks says scene schools Secretary of War ship Sir Walter Ralegh Spermaceti spirit Tell thee thing thou thought timber tion troops truth vessels Wendoll whale whole Winder wood
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Seite 98 - tis haunted, holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon...
Seite 483 - That light we see is burning in my hall ; how far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world...
Seite 98 - And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou ! Thy vales of evergreen, thy hills of snow, Proclaim thee Nature's varied favourite now ; Thy fanes, thy temples to thy surface bow, Commingling slowly with heroic earth, Broke by the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth, So perish all in turn, save well-recorded Worth ; LXXXVI.
Seite 28 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Seite 59 - And therefore, except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice, until thou find that time hath decayed thy natural heat, and the sooner thou beginnest to help nature, the sooner she will forsake thee, and trust altogether to art...
Seite 414 - English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor or image unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp and lyre, muse, muses and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus and Hippocrene were all an abomination to him.
Seite 57 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. While she was yet...
Seite 191 - For a very small expense the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.
Seite 94 - The truth is, that in these days the grand "primum mobile" of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical, cant religious, cant moral; but always cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life.
Seite 50 - I know not Which is best, to see you dead, or part with you. — Farewell, boy: Thou art happy that thou hast not understanding To know thy misery; for all our wit And reading brings us to a truer sense Of sorrow.