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... perhaps , with instruction , of himself and friends . It therefore became necessary , to fit it for publication , to collate the accumulated memo- randa , and select such portions only as might be supposed to prove interesting to the ...
... perhaps , with instruction , of himself and friends . It therefore became necessary , to fit it for publication , to collate the accumulated memo- randa , and select such portions only as might be supposed to prove interesting to the ...
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... Perhaps a captain's greatest anxiety is , when his vessel , having braved a thousand perils on the deep , is about to enter on the termination of its voyage . On the broad expanse of ocean , or , in nautical phrase , with plenty of sea ...
... Perhaps a captain's greatest anxiety is , when his vessel , having braved a thousand perils on the deep , is about to enter on the termination of its voyage . On the broad expanse of ocean , or , in nautical phrase , with plenty of sea ...
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... little more than a mimic fort ; this arises from the want of attention paid to defences of the kind in America , the little existing chance of invasion , perhaps , causing the 10 FIRST IMPRESSION OF NEW YORK . indifference to the.
... little more than a mimic fort ; this arises from the want of attention paid to defences of the kind in America , the little existing chance of invasion , perhaps , causing the 10 FIRST IMPRESSION OF NEW YORK . indifference to the.
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... perhaps outvying every other port in the world , not excepting Liverpool itself . As our vessel could not at once be accom- modated with a berth , owing to the crowded state of the harbour , she was moored in the middle of the stream ...
... perhaps outvying every other port in the world , not excepting Liverpool itself . As our vessel could not at once be accom- modated with a berth , owing to the crowded state of the harbour , she was moored in the middle of the stream ...
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... perhaps , to be equalled in any other country . From the Navy - yard I proceeded to Hoboken ; this is a place of great resort in fine weather , and is situate nearly opposite the city of New York , or rather the eastern part of it ...
... perhaps , to be equalled in any other country . From the Navy - yard I proceeded to Hoboken ; this is a place of great resort in fine weather , and is situate nearly opposite the city of New York , or rather the eastern part of it ...
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Page 131 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 32 - THE STEAMBOAT SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast, in ringing showers, With every wave that swells ; And, burning o'er the midnight deep, In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean...
Page 189 - Jonathan he composed a tune, and with much gravity recommended it to the officers, as one of the most celebrated airs of martial music. The joke took, to the no small amusement of the British corps. Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was nation fine...
Page 1 - A few short hours, and he will rise To give the morrow birth ; And I shall hail the main and skies, But not my mother earth. Deserted is my own good hall, Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weeds are gathering on the wall, My dog howls at the gate.
Page 188 - ... on the left of the British Army — some with long coats, some with short coats, and others with no coats at all...