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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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Adam Smith American Andromana appears arms army artillery attack balance of trade bank Bank of England battle beauty boat body Bosala British British army called cause character Charlestown circumstances colonel command corps crops Doge of Venice Duchess effect enemy England English favour feelings fire fish force France French genius give harpoon heart honour hope human infantry interest Jack Clay labour lady land less letter Lord Byron Louisiana manure means ment militia mind Monroe moral nature never New-York object observed opinion perhaps persons plants poem poet poetical poetry Pope present principles produce queen racter reader reason regiment remarks says schools ship society soil Spermaceti spirit Sunday Schools supposed thee thing thou thought timber tion troops truth vessels wealth Wendoll whale whole wood
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Seite 102 - 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 493 - 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 61 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
Seite 33 - I find myself unable to manage it with decorum; these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting, they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers, they are so humiliating to human nature itself, that on better thoughts I find it more advisable to throw a pall over this hideous object, and to leave it to your general conceptions.
Seite 32 - 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 54 - 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. — In the eternal church, sir, I do hope we shall not part thus.
Seite 32 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Seite 102 - 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 65 - ... an evasion by a syllable or word to abuse thee ;* if for a poor man, thou must pay it thyself; if for a rich man...
Seite 98 - 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.