Nautical Essays, Or, A Spiritual View of the Ocean and Maritime Affairs: With Reflections on the Battle of Trafalgar and Other EventsJ. Nisbet ... sold also by Longman and Company [and 17 others], 1818 - 211 страници |
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... appear like tedious repetition : but such will bear in mind , that many readers will take up the work , and peruse only a few pages , before duty , or some other circumstance , may cause them to lay it by . Hence it was thought better ...
... appear like tedious repetition : but such will bear in mind , that many readers will take up the work , and peruse only a few pages , before duty , or some other circumstance , may cause them to lay it by . Hence it was thought better ...
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... appears to rouse the attention of the most phlegmatic and sordid of the inhabi- tants . They all stand , and , for a season , gaze , and make their observations , and express their admiration . Yet the generality of these spec- tators ...
... appears to rouse the attention of the most phlegmatic and sordid of the inhabi- tants . They all stand , and , for a season , gaze , and make their observations , and express their admiration . Yet the generality of these spec- tators ...
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... appear trifling to some readers , but to myself it has assumed the air of importance . From the consideration of the checkered complicated state of human life in general , and of my own past days in NAUTICAL ESSAYS . 17.
... appear trifling to some readers , but to myself it has assumed the air of importance . From the consideration of the checkered complicated state of human life in general , and of my own past days in NAUTICAL ESSAYS . 17.
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... appears in sight , he places himself between the foe and his convoy , and determines , so long as he floats a gun above water , that not one of his friends shall be captured . For their protection he is ready to fight , and bleed , and ...
... appears in sight , he places himself between the foe and his convoy , and determines , so long as he floats a gun above water , that not one of his friends shall be captured . For their protection he is ready to fight , and bleed , and ...
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... understand these things , and consider what makes for your . everlasting peace ? Do ye not know that all be- neath the sun is hastening to an end ? That , gay as the world may now appear , and bright as 42 NAUTICAL ESSAYS .
... understand these things , and consider what makes for your . everlasting peace ? Do ye not know that all be- neath the sun is hastening to an end ? That , gay as the world may now appear , and bright as 42 NAUTICAL ESSAYS .
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Страница 175 - May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious Victory; and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the British Fleet.
Страница 30 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take: The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Страница 11 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Страница 12 - Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Страница 126 - By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Страница 22 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
Страница 43 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Страница 11 - When in the slippery paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm unseen convey'd me safe, And led me up to man.
Страница 96 - Lord, and in the power of his might ; to put on the whole armour of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.