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... carried by the front rank men , is likewise advocated on the Continent . It remains to be seen whether so retrograde a system will be of any practical value . 66 Turning from small arms to great guns , we observe that the use of the ...
... carried by the front rank men , is likewise advocated on the Continent . It remains to be seen whether so retrograde a system will be of any practical value . 66 Turning from small arms to great guns , we observe that the use of the ...
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... carried on a turntable , and covered by a sort of iron dome , or cupola , the axis of the whole being coincident with the line of the ship's keel . The vessel thus armed was able to lie low in the water , and owing to the central posi ...
... carried on a turntable , and covered by a sort of iron dome , or cupola , the axis of the whole being coincident with the line of the ship's keel . The vessel thus armed was able to lie low in the water , and owing to the central posi ...
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... carried on in a room by himself , but as his evenings are spent in the winter in transcribing , he usually , I find , does them vis - à - vis Mrs. Unwin . At this time of the year he writes always in the garden , in what he calls his ...
... carried on in a room by himself , but as his evenings are spent in the winter in transcribing , he usually , I find , does them vis - à - vis Mrs. Unwin . At this time of the year he writes always in the garden , in what he calls his ...
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... carried to Eastwold Church - I would rather a thousand times have been carried to Eastwold Church , " he had reiterated in monotonous soliloquy every hour since he had crossed the Channel . He was harping on the same string to - night ...
... carried to Eastwold Church - I would rather a thousand times have been carried to Eastwold Church , " he had reiterated in monotonous soliloquy every hour since he had crossed the Channel . He was harping on the same string to - night ...
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... carried armour 4 } inches thick , and had a ram under water at her bows . The smallest class of frigates designed ... carrying two 20 - ton 600 - pounders . There will also be two 6 - ton 7 - inch guns , as revolving chase guns . The ...
... carried armour 4 } inches thick , and had a ram under water at her bows . The smallest class of frigates designed ... carrying two 20 - ton 600 - pounders . There will also be two 6 - ton 7 - inch guns , as revolving chase guns . The ...
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Page 24 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?
Page 24 - Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply...
Page 92 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Page 93 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he 'Would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Page 24 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 119 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care, No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 24 - and tell you a truth which,- perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Page 8 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 93 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Page 244 - God knows best! he was somebody's love: Somebody's heart enshrined him there; Somebody wafted his name above, Night and morn, on the wings of prayer. Somebody wept when he marched away, Looking so handsome, brave, and grand; Somebody's kiss on his forehead lay; Somebody clung to his parting hand.