The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, 15. kötetBrown, Son and Ferguson, 1846 |
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28. oldal
... considered by many that no such shoal exists at the present time . It is quite possible that a submarine volcano may have thrown up a shoal as laid down by the Spanish navigators in the Derrotero , and afterwards been washed away by ...
... considered by many that no such shoal exists at the present time . It is quite possible that a submarine volcano may have thrown up a shoal as laid down by the Spanish navigators in the Derrotero , and afterwards been washed away by ...
29. oldal
... considered himself sufficiently to the south of the Baxo Nuevo , by the course he had steered , that should there be such a danger he would avoid it . Having had a good meridian altitude , and ascertained his longitude , by chronometers ...
... considered himself sufficiently to the south of the Baxo Nuevo , by the course he had steered , that should there be such a danger he would avoid it . Having had a good meridian altitude , and ascertained his longitude , by chronometers ...
35. oldal
... considered it a point of honour to sacri- fice , in the hour of peril , their own lives , for the advantage of the crew ; thus necessarily subjecting their wives and families to greater hazards of distress than those of any other ...
... considered it a point of honour to sacri- fice , in the hour of peril , their own lives , for the advantage of the crew ; thus necessarily subjecting their wives and families to greater hazards of distress than those of any other ...
39. oldal
... considered as impracticable ; but as the confidence of the crews can never be too much strengthened in favour of the boats in which they risk their lives , it was proposed to shew them that if the utmost exertiens were made to turn them ...
... considered as impracticable ; but as the confidence of the crews can never be too much strengthened in favour of the boats in which they risk their lives , it was proposed to shew them that if the utmost exertiens were made to turn them ...
40. oldal
... considered it correct to give up so unequal a con- test , and to return to the convoy , which he rejoined early the next morning . The Amiable sustained no damage but in the sails and rigging ; and the reason why the enemy did not take ...
... considered it correct to give up so unequal a con- test , and to return to the convoy , which he rejoined early the next morning . The Amiable sustained no damage but in the sails and rigging ; and the reason why the enemy did not take ...
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131. oldal - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
124. oldal - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses.
64. oldal - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deformed, With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
378. oldal - Pleas, calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside...
365. oldal - Thus I spoke; and speaking sigh'd; — Scarce repress'd the starting tear; — When the smiling sage reply'd — — Come, my lad, and drink some beer.
124. oldal - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
600. oldal - Sir, — I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
240. oldal - ... passage across the Atlantic; who so pathetically relate the privations and hardships of the sea, where, after a day of breakfasting, lunching, dining off five courses, chatting, playing whist, and drinking...
241. oldal - The Marquesas! What strange visions of outlandish things does the very name spirit up! Naked houris — cannibal banquets — groves of cocoa-nut — coral reefs — tatooed chiefs— and bamboo temples; sunny valleys planted with bread-fruit- trees — carved canoes dancing on the flashing blue waters — savage woodlands guarded by horrible idols — heathenish rites and human sacrifices.
240. oldal - SIX MONTHS AT SEA ! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific — the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else!