Narrative of a Voyage Round the World: Performed in Her Majesty's Ship Sulphur, During the Years 1836-1842, Including Details of the Naval Operations in China, from Dec. 1840, to Nov. 1841 ; Published Under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1872 - China |
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Page 4 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
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Page 69 - Afghanistan at the time permitted the step, to accompany his Excellency on his return to England, so that I might obtain the gratification of a personal interview with her Majesty the Queen, and derive pleasure from travelling in the countries of Europe. Before the eternally predestined decrees, however, men must bow in silence. '"A crooked and perverse fate always interferes to prevent the successful attainment by any human being of his most cherished desires. What more can be said or written to...
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Page 55 - Jamna, and is surrounded by extensive gardens. The building itself on the outside is of white marble, with a high cupola and four minarets. In the centre of the inside is a lofty hall of a circular form under a dome, in the middle of which is the tomb, enclosed within an open screen of elaborate tracery formed of marble and mosaics. The materials...
Page 279 - Kilda, passing those stationary bathing-boxes en route, where papa and mamma bring the dear little children for a dip; by those rude little boys, who (where did they learn it?) asked sarcastically, "Who stole the donkey?" merely because I had a white hat on ; then up by the pleasant and extensive park, or reserve — noting that burnt grass and gum-trees are not so pleasant as green grass and...
Page 279 - AUSTRALIA. a sandy beach, a pier, and one or two houses. I think I should like to live there, and teach the Victorians to walk by doing so myself. By the sea, whose tide rises and falls only six or seven feet ; by that nasty smelling slaughterhouse, three miles from my presumed home at Brighton, to St. Kilda, passing those stationary bathing-boxes en route, where papa and mamma bring the dear little children for a dip; by those rude little boys, who (where did they learn it?) asked sarcastically,...
Page 274 - Rifle-bird from Cape York, green fruit-pigeons and pigmy-geese from Eockhampton. In the same garden as the Museum stands the College, an unfinished building, but with more scholars than Sydney boasts of, stiff examinations, and a good library. Also the College of Surgeons, from which six doctors have already been turned out, and which contains the proper assortment of bottled babies and other surgical curiosities. From the gardens of the College we shall drive across the Royal Park.