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... means may it be held in Navy , after having devoted six or eight years , a state of the greatest readiness and efficiency , at instead of two or three , to the acquirement of the least expense ? Let us then suppose a state of his ...
... means may it be held in Navy , after having devoted six or eight years , a state of the greatest readiness and efficiency , at instead of two or three , to the acquirement of the least expense ? Let us then suppose a state of his ...
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... means of offence as well as of defence . they did from the King's ships , and as we know was the case in the war of 1812 - '14 . Each vessel act- ing separately and independently of the rest , would enfeeble , instead of strengthen ...
... means of offence as well as of defence . they did from the King's ships , and as we know was the case in the war of 1812 - '14 . Each vessel act- ing separately and independently of the rest , would enfeeble , instead of strengthen ...
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... means its wonted health and strength and vigor may be restored . The court - martial code , and the administration of the law , will be found no less defective than other parts of the system . to punishment , both as an example and a ...
... means its wonted health and strength and vigor may be restored . The court - martial code , and the administration of the law , will be found no less defective than other parts of the system . to punishment , both as an example and a ...
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... means unfrequently vitiated and set aside on account of informality . And in this way the guilty sometimes escape . perquisite be allowed on the grounds , that to re- ceive and transport specie in a man - of - war be ex- tra service for ...
... means unfrequently vitiated and set aside on account of informality . And in this way the guilty sometimes escape . perquisite be allowed on the grounds , that to re- ceive and transport specie in a man - of - war be ex- tra service for ...
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... means does it not use to ken up the happiest alliances and destroyed the obtain its ends ? Encouraged with the hope of suc - strongest leagues ; exchanged friendship for enmi- cess , it scruples not to gratify the worst passions , ty ...
... means does it not use to ken up the happiest alliances and destroyed the obtain its ends ? Encouraged with the hope of suc - strongest leagues ; exchanged friendship for enmi- cess , it scruples not to gratify the worst passions , ty ...
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Page 180 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 249 - What makes the youth sae bashfu' and sae grave; Weel-pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love ! where love like this is found : O heart-felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare — ' If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare — One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms, breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that...
Page 180 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Page 249 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 108 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 108 - O dearest, dearest boy ! my heart For better lore would seldom yearn, Could I but teach the hundredth part Of what from thee I learn.
Page 107 - These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye ; But oft, in lonely rooms and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness sensations sweet, Felt in the blood and felt along the heart, And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration...
Page 125 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Page 118 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 326 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.