Words of Advice to Young Naval OfficersWebb & Hunt, 1864 - 136 страници |
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Страница 93 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due, and sacred song...
Страница 65 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Страница 69 - God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.
Страница 64 - I know very well that many, who pretend to be wise by the forms of being grave, are apt to despise both poetry and music as toys and trifles too light for the use or entertainment of serious men. But whoever find themselves wholly insensible to...
Страница 40 - As Egypt does not on the clouds rely, But to the Nile owes more than to the sky ; So what our earth and what our heaven denies Our ever-constant friend, the sea, supplies. The taste of hot Arabia's spice we know, Free from the scorching sun that makes it grow : Without the worm, in Persian silks we shine ; And, without planting, drink of every vine.
Страница 93 - The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th
Страница 41 - To dig for wealth we weary not our limbs ; Gold, though the heaviest metal, hither swims. Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow ; We plough the deep, and reap what others sow.
Страница 64 - ... to the beholder nor the voyager in a calm or in a storm, but is so to both when a little agitated by gentle gales ; and so the mind, when moved by soft and easy passions or affections.
Страница 56 - Any officer of the fleet who may be called on to act as second or friend to an officer intending to fight a duel, is to consider it to be his imperative duty, and he is hereby ordered strenuously to exert himself to effect an adjustment between the adverse parties, on terms consistent with the honour of each, and should he fail, owing to the determination of the offended parties not to accept honourable terms of accommodation, he must refer to instruction No.
Страница 57 - ... who, being willing to make or accept such redress, refuse to accept challenges, as they will only have acted as is suitable to the character...