Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, 148. kötetH. Colburn, 1878 |
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351. oldal - The United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies.
46. oldal - In this perplexity, the genius of Mahomet conceived and executed a plan of a bold and marvellous cast, of transporting by land his lighter vessels and military stores from the Bosphorus into the higher part of the harbour.
184. oldal - Armies neither fly, nor run post," saith a marshal of France. And I know it to be true, that a fleet of ships may be seen at sunset, and after it, at the Lizard; yet by the next morning they may recover Portland; whereas an army of foot shall not be able to march it in six days.
200. oldal - The people of the island report that at a certain season of the year, an extraordinary kind of bird, which they call a rukh, makes its appearance from the southern region. In form it is said to resemble the eagle, but it is incomparably greater in size; being so large and strong as to seize an elephant with its talons, and to lift it into the air, from whence it lets it fall to the ground, in order that when dead it may prey upon the carcase.
139. oldal - ... at a rate that seems swifter than the wind : the horsemen are instantly at full speed, having slipped the dogs. If it is a single deer, they at the same time fly the hawks ; but if a herd, they wait till the dogs have fixed on a particular antelope.
46. oldal - Fourscore light galleys and brigantines of fifty and thirty oars were disembarked on the Bosphorus shore, arranged successively on rollers, and drawn forwards by the power of men and pulleys.
77. oldal - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law.
140. oldal - Cherkh (the same which is flown at the antelope), attacks them on the ground, but will not follow them on the wing; for this reason, the Bhyree, a hawk well known in India, is flown the moment the Hubara rises.
137. oldal - It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries ; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it, as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation.
34. oldal - That, tost amid the floating fragments, moors Beneath the shelter of an icy isle, While night o'erwhelms the sea, and horror looks More horrible. Can human force endure Th...