DECK AND PORT; OR INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS TO CALIFORNIA |
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... night we had penetrated near to its centre . This great river of the ocean holds its majestic course in seeming in- dependence of the vast and violent elements through which it moves . Storms may howl over it , PASSAGE TO RIO . 23.
... night we had penetrated near to its centre . This great river of the ocean holds its majestic course in seeming in- dependence of the vast and violent elements through which it moves . Storms may howl over it , PASSAGE TO RIO . 23.
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... hold were searched , but he was nowhere to be found . He was last seen between seven and eight bells of the mid - watch . He had not been well since we left Norfolk , had complained of his head , of an oppression on the orain , and had ...
... hold were searched , but he was nowhere to be found . He was last seen between seven and eight bells of the mid - watch . He had not been well since we left Norfolk , had complained of his head , of an oppression on the orain , and had ...
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... hold out , but the appearance of a junk of corned beef on our table every day indicates the gradual approach of short commons . Still it will be some time before we reach that last dish of gastronomic desperation - lobscouse . We have ...
... hold out , but the appearance of a junk of corned beef on our table every day indicates the gradual approach of short commons . Still it will be some time before we reach that last dish of gastronomic desperation - lobscouse . We have ...
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... holds steady and strong ; we are running nine and ten knots on our course . This has put us all in fine spirits , notwithstanding the wet condition of our frigate . Only give a sailor a good ten - knot breeze on his course , and he wont ...
... holds steady and strong ; we are running nine and ten knots on our course . This has put us all in fine spirits , notwithstanding the wet condition of our frigate . Only give a sailor a good ten - knot breeze on his course , and he wont ...
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... the line if this wind holds , and there is now little prospect of change , at 30 ° . This is three or four degrees further west than most ships bound to Rio de Janeiro venture to cross it at . Still 64 DECK AND PORT .
... the line if this wind holds , and there is now little prospect of change , at 30 ° . This is three or four degrees further west than most ships bound to Rio de Janeiro venture to cross it at . Still 64 DECK AND PORT .
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Términos y frases comunes
albatros American anchor beautiful bird Brazil breeze broad pennant Callao Cape Horn capstan Captain Chili church clime clouds Commodore Commodore Stockton crew dark dead dead calm death deck deep DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY Du Pont floating flowers force FRIDAY frigate gale grave guns hail hands heart heaven Honolulu hundred islands knots the hour lady land light Lima look man-of-war mass ment miles MONDAY moral morning Natural Philosophy nature never night o'er ocean officers passed Peru plunged porpoises port present quarter reach religion repose rience roll rush Sabbath sail sailor SATURDAY schools seemed shadows ship shore silent sleep slumber soft soon star steep storm strength SUNDAY thing thou thousand throw thunder THURSDAY tion to-day triumphs TUESDAY Valparaiso watch wave WEDNESDAY wild wind York Tribune
Pasajes populares
Página 204 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Página 284 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Página 85 - And this is in the night : most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight — A portion of the tempest, and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black — and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Página 51 - ... looking for the general Resurrection in the last, day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the earth and the sea shall give up their dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his own glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.
Página 79 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 190 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Página 322 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Página 61 - ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found.
Página 402 - made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Página 75 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.