Cambridge Essays, Volume 1John W. Parker and son, 1856 |
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Page 84
... ships , and every facility for observation thereby afforded , we had no adequate knowledge of the currents of wind in different parts of our globe . Yet , by learning their directions , navigators could have ensured at any time a great ...
... ships , and every facility for observation thereby afforded , we had no adequate knowledge of the currents of wind in different parts of our globe . Yet , by learning their directions , navigators could have ensured at any time a great ...
Page 85
... ships , as the solution of the question would have been a matter of immediate and cal- culable profit . Yet , such ... ship afloat that was manned by reliable officers , and combining the facts they had observed into one general system ...
... ships , as the solution of the question would have been a matter of immediate and cal- culable profit . Yet , such ... ship afloat that was manned by reliable officers , and combining the facts they had observed into one general system ...
Page 89
... ship will stand out clear against the sky ; objects three feet across , such as distant chimneys , cease to be mere lines , and have a sensible breadth ; the very trunks and boughs of trees may be visible , and their foliage seen to ...
... ship will stand out clear against the sky ; objects three feet across , such as distant chimneys , cease to be mere lines , and have a sensible breadth ; the very trunks and boughs of trees may be visible , and their foliage seen to ...
Page 108
... ship at sea , but with a thousandfold greater risk with regard to its freight . If the animals of the caravan perish , the party must perish too , unless that hand of Provi- dence which every traveller in wild countries learns to acknow ...
... ship at sea , but with a thousandfold greater risk with regard to its freight . If the animals of the caravan perish , the party must perish too , unless that hand of Provi- dence which every traveller in wild countries learns to acknow ...
Page 120
... ships , and several thousand fathoms of firewood . These stores were in no respect munitions of war ; ' they were the materials of peaceful commerce , and belonged , not to the government , but to private individuals , who had laid them ...
... ships , and several thousand fathoms of firewood . These stores were in no respect munitions of war ; ' they were the materials of peaceful commerce , and belonged , not to the government , but to private individuals , who had laid them ...
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Page 248 - And all his greaves and cuisses dash'd with drops Of onset ; and the light and lustrous curls — That made his forehead like a rising sun High from the...
Page 262 - I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward. Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day.
Page 226 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 179 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 279 - Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the narrow house, 'The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : ' Might I not say? 'Yet even here, But for one hour, O Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive...
Page 246 - The bare black cliff clang' d round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Page 254 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells ; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass...
Page 178 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content. But grant him riches, your demand is o'er? "No — shall the good want health, the good want power?" Add health and power, and every earthly thing, "Why bounded power? why private? why no king?
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