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... captain re- fused to join an English convoy , and afterwards to stop at the little isle of St Pierre , near Sardinia , where he had been warned of the appearance of an Algerine squadron . He obstinately set sail at a time when all the ...
... captain re- fused to join an English convoy , and afterwards to stop at the little isle of St Pierre , near Sardinia , where he had been warned of the appearance of an Algerine squadron . He obstinately set sail at a time when all the ...
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... captain pointed with his fin- ger to a hostile vessel which was to leeward , and opposed our retreat . I know not what weight there was in his reasons ; but I know that he did nothing , either to fly or to defend us . The first time ...
... captain pointed with his fin- ger to a hostile vessel which was to leeward , and opposed our retreat . I know not what weight there was in his reasons ; but I know that he did nothing , either to fly or to defend us . The first time ...
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... captain . Nothing less than a miracle would have been necessary to render success- ful the expedition of St Louis against Tunis in 1270 ; accordingly , it was a miracle which that pious king expect- ed . The conquests of the Portuguese ...
... captain . Nothing less than a miracle would have been necessary to render success- ful the expedition of St Louis against Tunis in 1270 ; accordingly , it was a miracle which that pious king expect- ed . The conquests of the Portuguese ...
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... captain an immense superiority over such soldiers , not- withstanding the greatest dispropor- tion of numbers . The glorious cam- paigns in Egypt prove it . M. Pa- nanti would not wish the conquest of Africa to be attempted with less ...
... captain an immense superiority over such soldiers , not- withstanding the greatest dispropor- tion of numbers . The glorious cam- paigns in Egypt prove it . M. Pa- nanti would not wish the conquest of Africa to be attempted with less ...
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... Captain Brown . On the struc- ture of the cells in the combs of bees and wasps , and on the causes of organization , by Dr Barclay . MINERALOGY . - On the mineralogy of the Pentland Hills ; on the geognosy of the Lothians ; on conglome ...
... Captain Brown . On the struc- ture of the cells in the combs of bees and wasps , and on the causes of organization , by Dr Barclay . MINERALOGY . - On the mineralogy of the Pentland Hills ; on the geognosy of the Lothians ; on conglome ...
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Page 449 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Page 351 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing.
Page 49 - Though, as Ben Jonson says of him, that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country."!
Page 311 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 446 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Page 527 - And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.
Page 221 - Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam ; The desert, forest, cavern, breaker's foam, Were unto him companionship; they spake A mutual language, clearer than the tome Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake.
Page 149 - ... such a scene of natural romance and beauty as had never before greeted my eyes. To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wandered on its easterly course, surrounding the beautiful detached hill, with all its garland of woods. On the right, amid a profusion of thickets, knolls, and crags, lay the bed of a broad mountain lake, lightly curled into tiny waves by the breath of the morning breeze, each glittering in its course under the influence of the sun-beams.
Page 553 - Oh ! it sickens the heart to see bosoms so hollow, And spirits so mean in the great and high-born ; To think what a long line of titles may follow The relics of him who died — friendless and lorn ! How proud they can press to the funeral array Of one whom they shunned in his sickness and sorrow : — How bailiffs may seize his last blanket to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by nobles to-morrow...
Page 346 - I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our...