Cruise of the 'Red rose', 1880 [by S. Lloyd]. |
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... looked upon as our future Ark of safety and rest upon the wild waves . We were still ashore at Falmouth , but expectation was afloat . It was dark as we stepped off the pier into the steam launch of our yacht , and left the fair shores ...
... looked upon as our future Ark of safety and rest upon the wild waves . We were still ashore at Falmouth , but expectation was afloat . It was dark as we stepped off the pier into the steam launch of our yacht , and left the fair shores ...
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... looked out to find it always dark . At last the grey morning light appeared , and the storm gradually lessened . Our Admiral told us the next day that when he went on deck not only was it intensely dark but there was a howling wind and ...
... looked out to find it always dark . At last the grey morning light appeared , and the storm gradually lessened . Our Admiral told us the next day that when he went on deck not only was it intensely dark but there was a howling wind and ...
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... looked round and saw all the tiers , devoted to the common people , rising tier above tier crowded with thousands of them , and when the time was due for a commencement , heard them calling and shouting at the top of their voices for no ...
... looked round and saw all the tiers , devoted to the common people , rising tier above tier crowded with thousands of them , and when the time was due for a commencement , heard them calling and shouting at the top of their voices for no ...
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... looked out westward , from the windows of the palace , we were told that Emanuel , the king of Portugal , looked out long and patiently from them for the return of the fleet of Vasco da Gama . It consisted of four vessels manned by 160 ...
... looked out westward , from the windows of the palace , we were told that Emanuel , the king of Portugal , looked out long and patiently from them for the return of the fleet of Vasco da Gama . It consisted of four vessels manned by 160 ...
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... looked perfectly unique , this morning it is still more striking . It is true that " distance sometimes lends enchantment to the view , " and a beauty decked out at night with jewels may appear then to the best advantage . But here ...
... looked perfectly unique , this morning it is still more striking . It is true that " distance sometimes lends enchantment to the view , " and a beauty decked out at night with jewels may appear then to the best advantage . But here ...
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Page 18 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, 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.
Page vi - I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Page vi - The two parts, of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian, learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts ; and the unstrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief, that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired*.
Page 65 - AN accident, which happened to the gentleman engaged in reviewing this Sermon, proves, in the most striking manner, the importance of this charity for restoring to life persons in whom the vital power is suspended. He was discovered, with Dr. Langford's discourse lying open before him, in a state of the most profound sleep ; from which he could not, by any means, be awakened for a great length of time. By attending, however, to the rules prescribed by the Humane Society, flinging in the smoke of...
Page 62 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
Page 14 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 14 - With all which so great and terrible an ostentation, they did not in all their sailing round about England so much as sink, or take, one ship, bark, pinnace, or cockboat of ours, or ever burnt so much as one sheepcote of this land.
Page vi - Jones in private was, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if, he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury plain, he would, never, theless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page i - So rapid was the fall of Spain, that in only three reigns after the death of Philip II, the most powerful monarchy existing in the world was depressed to the lowest point of debasement, was insulted with impunity by foreign nations, was reduced more than once to bankruptcy, was stripped of her fairest possessions, was held up to public opprobrium, was made a theme on which school-boys and moralists loved to declaim respecting the uncertainty of human...
Page i - About one million of the most industrious inhabitants of Spain were hunted out like wild beasts...