The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Том 2Wiley and Halsted, 1821 |
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... better heads than his own , was looking abroad for expedients to save his friend and protegé , he did not fail to recur to a proposition - that the whole case should be referred to two foreign generals , one of whom should be Ro ...
... better heads than his own , was looking abroad for expedients to save his friend and protegé , he did not fail to recur to a proposition - that the whole case should be referred to two foreign generals , one of whom should be Ro ...
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... better than any one which has been adopted in its room ; and it answers the material object of the practice , that of ascertaining the relative force of one ship with another . An opinion was industriously circulated in Great Britain ...
... better than any one which has been adopted in its room ; and it answers the material object of the practice , that of ascertaining the relative force of one ship with another . An opinion was industriously circulated in Great Britain ...
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... better gun for the ordinary vicissitudes of sea - service ; and it is certain that Captain Porter in the Essex , might as well have had nothing as his carronades , during the greater part of the action in which he was captured . All of ...
... better gun for the ordinary vicissitudes of sea - service ; and it is certain that Captain Porter in the Essex , might as well have had nothing as his carronades , during the greater part of the action in which he was captured . All of ...
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... better manned , and in this respect her numbers rendered her , to say the least , equal to the Constitu- tion . And the result goes fully to prove , that something more than English spirit , English loyalty , or English skill , is ...
... better manned , and in this respect her numbers rendered her , to say the least , equal to the Constitu- tion . And the result goes fully to prove , that something more than English spirit , English loyalty , or English skill , is ...
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... better courtesy , forbid it . — But the ex- citement should never sleep . We must have a navy - powerful , in some measure , as our nation . Nature - our interests - our safety seem to require it : And whatever may be the checks its ...
... better courtesy , forbid it . — But the ex- citement should never sleep . We must have a navy - powerful , in some measure , as our nation . Nature - our interests - our safety seem to require it : And whatever may be the checks its ...
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Страница 175 - ... in the country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same, when, to his astonishment, he found his beard had grown a foot long!
Страница 173 - For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third.
Страница 173 - From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud or the sail of a lagging bark here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.
Страница 174 - Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle!" At the same time, Wolf bristled up his back, and giving a low growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him. He looked anxiously in the same direction and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place ; but supposing it to be some one...
Страница 178 - Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's twenty years since he went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of since,— his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl.
Страница 178 - ... dreading the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle. Whenever her name was mentioned, however, he shook his head, shrugged his shoulders, and cast up his eyes ; which might pass either for an expression of resignation to his fate or joy at his deliverance. He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. Doolittle's hotel.
Страница 173 - ... wild, lonely, and shagged, the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene; evening was gradually advancing; the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a...
Страница 177 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
Страница 175 - ... countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
Страница 172 - ... swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.