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Admiral Linois afterwards alongside anchor appeared arrival attention Belle Poule berth blue ensign boat breeze brig brought Captain captured chase colours command Commodore confidence course crew cruise danger deck degree despatched destination distance Dondra Head eastward effect enemy enemy's favour feeling felt fire fortunate French friends frigate gallant gentlemen Guerrière guns half hand hauled head heart hoisted honour hope hour immediately island Isle of France Jack La Minerve land lieutenant Madagascar main-deck Majesty's ships man-of-war mast-head ment messmate middies miles mind minutes morning naval navy Nereide never night observed officers orders passed Phaeton Pointe de Galle poor fellow port Port Louis prize proved quarter quarter-deck received reefers sail Sand Heads scarcely seamen ship's company shore shot sight signal skipper soon Spithead squadron station stranger studding sails suffering thing tion vessel watch whole wind windward young
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Page 229 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 16 - America. I was too young to appreciate his poetic powers (I even doubt whether I had heard of them), but I remember perfectly well that he appeared the life and soul of the company, and the loss of his fascinating society Avas frequently and loudly lamented by the officers long after he had quitted us in America.
Page 83 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Page 55 - But examples of this kind are but few ; and I think I may say that, of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, for good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Page 63 - Tis ours on thine unerring Laws to trust: * With thee, great Lord !
Page 85 - To this testimony in favour of the Nereide, we shall merely add, that the noble behaviour of her officers and crew threw such a halo of glory around the defeat at Grand-Port, that, in public opinion at least, the loss of the four frigates was scarcely considered a misfortune. The arrival of the Windham recaptured...
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Page 198 - President, if we increase postage rates; and if we use a new budgetary system to transfer excess receipts of the trust accounts into the cash budget. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, but if everything works out as presently planned we will have a surplus, but I think you have a rough and rugged road to travel getting postage rates increased, getting all the taxes extended, and holding the line on expenditures. But we will all work...
Page xiii - Sincerity, Thou first of virtues! let no mortal leave Thy onward path, although the earth should gape, And from the gulph of hell destruction cry. To take dissimulation's winding way.