United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Τόμος 25H. Colburn, 1837 |
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Admiral afterwards appeared appointed army arrived Artillery barracks boat boiler Brevet British Cadet Cape Capt Captain cavalry Chatham Chinsura Coast of Africa Colonel command corps Cox & Co crew Dampier daughter deck depôt distance ditto Dockyard Dragoons duty East Indies enemy engine Ensign feet fire Foot Fra Diavolo French frigate Gent Gosport Guards guns Hamoaze honour hope horses India infantry island John Kafirs Lady land late letter Lieut Lieutenant light Lisbon Lord Malta ment miles military morning naval Navy nearly never night observed occasion officers party passed Peninsular War Plymouth port Portsmouth present quarters rank Rear-Admiral received recruits regiment Regt remained retires returned river road Royal Royal Artillery sailed ship shore shot Silchester soldiers soon Spithead steam tion town troops Unatt vessel vice West Indies Woolwich wounded
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Σελίδα 324 - She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Σελίδα 210 - ... the spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! feels at each thread, and lives along the line '. in the nice bee, what sense so subtly true from poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ; how instinct varies in the grovelling swine, compared, half-reasoning elephant, with thine ! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier, for ever separate, yet for ever near!
Σελίδα 546 - The least sanguine people here expect, the latter end of this month or the beginning of the next, to have the account of the taking of Cape Breton, and of all the forts with hard names in North America. Captain...
Σελίδα 12 - I trembled at the remembrance of. I had long before this repented me of that roving course of life, but never with such concern as now. I did also call to mind the many miraculous acts of God's providence towards me in the whole course of my life, of which kind I believe few men have met with the like. For all these I returned thanks in a peculiar manner, and...
Σελίδα 9 - Ah ! Dampier, you would have made them but a poor meal ; " for I was as lean as the captain was lusty and fleshy.
Σελίδα 147 - April 18th, 1703. Captain William Dampier being prepared to depart on another voyage to the West Indies, had the honour to kiss her majesty's hand on Friday last, being introduced by his royal highness the lord-high-admiral.
Σελίδα 270 - The pulsations of the air, once set in motion by the human voice, cease not to exist with the sounds to which they gave rise.
Σελίδα 380 - ... of armies. Spain, beyond all doubt, though as prolific of endemic fever as Walcheren, is then the driest country of Europe, and it is only when she has been thoroughly wetted by the periodical rains that she can be called healthy, or even habitable, with any degree of safety.
Σελίδα 300 - Immediately our pinnace returned from the shore, and brought abundance of cray-fish, with a man clothed in goat's skins, who looked wilder than the first owners of them. He had been on the island four years and four months, being left there by Captain Stradling in the " Cinque Ports ; " his name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotchman, who had been master of the
Σελίδα 156 - Bounds belonging or in any wise appertaining, To have and to hold, all and singular...