Naval discipline ... or, A view of the necessity for passing a law establishing an efficient naval discipline on board ships in the merchant-service |
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... shore can , at all times , punish imposition , and easily defeat the attempts of the cheat and plunderer ? During my experience , of twenty - eight years in the Company's regular service , I have been witness to the most disgraceful ...
... shore can , at all times , punish imposition , and easily defeat the attempts of the cheat and plunderer ? During my experience , of twenty - eight years in the Company's regular service , I have been witness to the most disgraceful ...
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... shore to be the herald for revolt . The influence of inflamed passions , excited by Jew crimps , land - sharks , and pettifogging lawyers , who crowd alongside , and , at times , steal on board , the moment a ship is at anchor , or ...
... shore to be the herald for revolt . The influence of inflamed passions , excited by Jew crimps , land - sharks , and pettifogging lawyers , who crowd alongside , and , at times , steal on board , the moment a ship is at anchor , or ...
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... he cannot interpose with an efficient and corrective power of control , to what other tribunal has an injured person to make his appeal , some thousand miles from any shore , and with a prospect of from three to five months in such 22.
... he cannot interpose with an efficient and corrective power of control , to what other tribunal has an injured person to make his appeal , some thousand miles from any shore , and with a prospect of from three to five months in such 22.
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... naval power : -England's best bulwarks are her wooden walls . " To all I speak for tars , what need to Britons more ! " For Tars and Truth are guardians of our shore . " D CHAPTER II . Shewing how defective are the Means of 33.
... naval power : -England's best bulwarks are her wooden walls . " To all I speak for tars , what need to Britons more ! " For Tars and Truth are guardians of our shore . " D CHAPTER II . Shewing how defective are the Means of 33.
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... shore , a winter's cruise , in the Bay of Biscay , or off the Cape of Good Hope , in a north - wester , can place a just value on a prompt and zealous performance of duty , and the evils which may follow from lubberly conduct and gross ...
... shore , a winter's cruise , in the Bay of Biscay , or off the Cape of Good Hope , in a north - wester , can place a just value on a prompt and zealous performance of duty , and the evils which may follow from lubberly conduct and gross ...
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abuse Admiral Admiral Gardner Admiral Linois Amboyna anchor armed attempt authority blue ensign board ship boat boatswain Capt Captain cause character charge chief mate China fleet commanders and officers Commodore Company's service conduct confinement consequences corporal punishment Court crew crime daring deck declared disaffection discipline disgrace duty East Indiamen East-India England escape excited feelings firmness flogging French frigate gale gallant gangway guilty guns hands Honourable Company's ship hope humanity Indiamen inflicted Inglis inquiry insubordination jury justice lash Lord Macassar Majesty's ship man-of-war manner masts ment merchant merchant-service merchant-ships mind mutiny naval navy necessity obedience observed offence opinion overboard passengers persons present Princess Charlotte Princess Royal prisoner prows quarter-deck Rajah received ringleaders Royal George sail sailors seized sent severe ship's company shipmates shore soldiers spirit Swaloo tain Timins tion vessels voyage Warren Hastings wind witness wounded wreck zeal
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Página 265 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and...
Página 382 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep.
Página 202 - O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Página 220 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Página 265 - But mercy is above this sceptred sway ; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute of God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's "When mercy seasons justice.
Página 382 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Página 382 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore, When the stormy tempests blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow.
Página 202 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Página 315 - She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 151 - And pant already to redress. Go on, the height of good attain, Nor let a nation hope in vain: For hence we justly may presage The virtues of a riper age.