United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Част 2H. Colburn, 1842 |
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... honour and promotion , find too late that they have lavished both in vain ; and when worn out , and compelled from utter exhaustion and inefficiency to retire , they find themselves not only defrauded of the rank and glory they have ...
... honour and promotion , find too late that they have lavished both in vain ; and when worn out , and compelled from utter exhaustion and inefficiency to retire , they find themselves not only defrauded of the rank and glory they have ...
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... honour of their profession , while the majority trudges up a winding ascent , from which they cannot disengage ... honours of war sooner and more certainly than for those who ought to be their competitors by the odds of two to one , ) it ...
... honour of their profession , while the majority trudges up a winding ascent , from which they cannot disengage ... honours of war sooner and more certainly than for those who ought to be their competitors by the odds of two to one , ) it ...
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... honour and promotion , and that a practical reform is urgently needed : an admission indeed so universal , that many a pen has been employed before mine in projects and schemes for the regulation of military advancement on more ...
... honour and promotion , and that a practical reform is urgently needed : an admission indeed so universal , that many a pen has been employed before mine in projects and schemes for the regulation of military advancement on more ...
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... honour and a gentleman , must be certified in like manner by his commanding officer . But after the 2nd grade - for which the commanding officer's certificate is sufficient - there shall be for the Lieutenant , before he is qualified ...
... honour and a gentleman , must be certified in like manner by his commanding officer . But after the 2nd grade - for which the commanding officer's certificate is sufficient - there shall be for the Lieutenant , before he is qualified ...
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... honour started , thought he could not well avoid taking a part in it . In this ridiculous situation we might have remained some time , had not our dispute been soon settled by the stones that began to fly about us , and by the cries of ...
... honour started , thought he could not well avoid taking a part in it . In this ridiculous situation we might have remained some time , had not our dispute been soon settled by the stones that began to fly about us , and by the cries of ...
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Страница 172 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Страница 172 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Страница 147 - A table richly spread, in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd, Gris-amber-steam'd ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drain'd Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.
Страница 66 - Lordships will be so kind as to look into this affair, which is nowise unreasonable ; and that we may be looked upon as a number of men standing in defence of our country ; and that we may in somewise have grant and opportunity to taste the sweets of liberty on shore, when in any harbour, and when we have completed the duty of our ship, after our return from sea...
Страница 102 - I had little hope on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin ; but it pleased God to order it otherwise. I am thankful for it. As for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up, for, by God, they deserve it. ."Yours,
Страница 154 - Rome decreed the Civic Crown to him who saved the life of a single citizen, what wreaths are due to that man, who having himself saved many, perpetuates in your Transactions the means by which Britain may now, on the most distant voyages, save numbers of her intrepid sons, her mariners ; who, braving every danger, have so liberally contributed to the fame, to the opulence, and to the maritime empire of their country...
Страница 96 - That the ships of the Dutch, as well ships of war as others, meeting any of the ships of war of the English Commonwealth in the British seas, shall strike their flags and lower their topsail, in such manner as hath ever been at any time heretofore practised under any forms of government.
Страница 94 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, ' were his last words, "with a joyful and a quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a good soldier ought to do, who has fought for his country and his queen, for honor and religion.
Страница 16 - That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless children, and widows, and all that are desolate and oppressed ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Страница 155 - Indeed it was most remarkable, in all our reiterated experience of this malady, that whatever discouraged our people, or at any time damped their hopes, never failed to add new vigour to the distemper ; for it usually killed those who were in the last stages of it, and confined those to their hammocks who were before capable of some kind of duty ; so that it seemed VOL.