The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, 15. kötetBrown, Son and Ferguson, 1846 |
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19. oldal
... taken up their positions in the following manner : the Agincourt's launch close in on the left bank touching the boom , the Vixen's pinnace next , and the Dædalus's launch next ; -on the right bank was Vestal's barge , then Agincourt's ...
... taken up their positions in the following manner : the Agincourt's launch close in on the left bank touching the boom , the Vixen's pinnace next , and the Dædalus's launch next ; -on the right bank was Vestal's barge , then Agincourt's ...
20. oldal
... taken possession of . A guard was left in the fort , parties of marines and small arm men advanced up both sides of the river , burning and destroying the houses , and everything that could be discovered . The forts were well situated ...
... taken possession of . A guard was left in the fort , parties of marines and small arm men advanced up both sides of the river , burning and destroying the houses , and everything that could be discovered . The forts were well situated ...
29. oldal
... taken both north and south of the zenith for the latitude , and east and west of the meridian for time , and the means of them taken , would be liable to a great error , caused by the false horizon , which is very general in low ...
... taken both north and south of the zenith for the latitude , and east and west of the meridian for time , and the means of them taken , would be liable to a great error , caused by the false horizon , which is very general in low ...
30. oldal
... taken to keep to windward of the port , as the current in shore very often runs strongly , influenced by the wind , and has been the cause of many vessels lying outside in a norther , when had the land been made to windward they might ...
... taken to keep to windward of the port , as the current in shore very often runs strongly , influenced by the wind , and has been the cause of many vessels lying outside in a norther , when had the land been made to windward they might ...
40. oldal
... taken the same morning . Capt . Duff made the signal to chase , and soon afterwards , on the Calcutta altering course , evidently with the view of diverting attention , hove too , and retook her . Capt . Raper continuing the chase ...
... taken the same morning . Capt . Duff made the signal to chase , and soon afterwards , on the Calcutta altering course , evidently with the view of diverting attention , hove too , and retook her . Capt . Raper continuing the chase ...
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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!