Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 34W. Blackwood, 1833 - England |
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... successful , instead of choosing his situation and distance for engaging me with effect , he short- ened sail and bore up into my wake . By this manœuvre , which was ef- fected with wonderful promptitude , I gained so much to windward ...
... successful , instead of choosing his situation and distance for engaging me with effect , he short- ened sail and bore up into my wake . By this manœuvre , which was ef- fected with wonderful promptitude , I gained so much to windward ...
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... successful in his first and great object , and has left cause for every man who has a heart to feel and a mind to reflect , never , never to forget him . I left off in my last , telling you I was called to obey the signal on board the ...
... successful in his first and great object , and has left cause for every man who has a heart to feel and a mind to reflect , never , never to forget him . I left off in my last , telling you I was called to obey the signal on board the ...
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... success . " Nor did he , and the other ablest officers in the squadron , even after the state of affairs began to look less promising , soon cease to hope , or rather to believe , that the Turks would give up possession of their ships ...
... success . " Nor did he , and the other ablest officers in the squadron , even after the state of affairs began to look less promising , soon cease to hope , or rather to believe , that the Turks would give up possession of their ships ...
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... success . It was the scientific style in which he fought his actions that gave him so high a place in the profession , as much as his daring valour ; and the vessels he commanded were perfect models for that order and discipline which ...
... success . It was the scientific style in which he fought his actions that gave him so high a place in the profession , as much as his daring valour ; and the vessels he commanded were perfect models for that order and discipline which ...
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... success serve to animate our diligence , they are good ; if they tend to increase our presump- tion , they are worse than defeats . " Taxing is an easy business . Any projector can contrive new imposi- tions ; any bungler can add to the ...
... success serve to animate our diligence , they are good ; if they tend to increase our presump- tion , they are worse than defeats . " Taxing is an easy business . Any projector can contrive new imposi- tions ; any bungler can add to the ...
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Page 31 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 295 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round, it measures Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
Page 296 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 304 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 304 - He resolved, in . the gloomy recesses of a mind 'capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 42 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals,* no palaces, no schools; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 67 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 305 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Page 92 - 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 : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love Me and keep My Commandments.
Page 30 - ... than the opinions of many would go along with me. — In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress — I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.