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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... writer's notice , might , altogether , form a little book , not wholly uninteresting or unprofitable to some pious officers and intelligent maritime youths , as well as to a few non - nautical Christians on shore . Certainly , the ...
... writer's notice , might , altogether , form a little book , not wholly uninteresting or unprofitable to some pious officers and intelligent maritime youths , as well as to a few non - nautical Christians on shore . Certainly , the ...
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... writer has , in a few instances , brought forward some parts of the same truths under different heads . This to a person who should read all the Essays at one or two sittings , might appear like tedious repetition : but such will bear ...
... writer has , in a few instances , brought forward some parts of the same truths under different heads . This to a person who should read all the Essays at one or two sittings , might appear like tedious repetition : but such will bear ...
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... writer is no advocate for the superstitious and often blasphemous conduct of the Spaniards and other Roman Catholic countries , in naming ships of war after a tribe of monks and friars , much less in calling them “ The Saviours of the ...
... writer is no advocate for the superstitious and often blasphemous conduct of the Spaniards and other Roman Catholic countries , in naming ships of war after a tribe of monks and friars , much less in calling them “ The Saviours of the ...
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... writer's ship was one day cruizing in the Atlantic , the man at the mast - head discovered something on the water to leeward , and giving notice to the officer on the quarter - deck , the helm was put up , and , shortly after , we found ...
... writer's ship was one day cruizing in the Atlantic , the man at the mast - head discovered something on the water to leeward , and giving notice to the officer on the quarter - deck , the helm was put up , and , shortly after , we found ...
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... writer's intention to enter on the discussion of the lawfulness and expediency , or the unlaw- fulness and inexpediency of these measures , or of the wars that lead to their adoption . The evil still exists , and is extensively and ...
... writer's intention to enter on the discussion of the lawfulness and expediency , or the unlaw- fulness and inexpediency of these measures , or of the wars that lead to their adoption . The evil still exists , and is extensively and ...
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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.